From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Sun 01 Mar 1998 - 08:11:46 EET
Vesa Lehtinen sez:
> However, I do not see why Orlanth-worshipers of any kind would be
> automatically _afraid_ of storms.
[but they would use rites to ensure]
> the thunder and lightning do not cause any significant damage.
Jeff Richard objects:
> I don't buy the assertion that somehow Orlanth worshippers dig destructive
> storms. 39 folk just died in Florida this week because of tornadoes.
I don't think Vesa actually offered that precise assertion for sale.
I'd say, personally, that if a storm was considered Orlanth-sent, then
to be ostentatiously unafraid of it was a sign of piety, though not either
a religious requirement, much less necessarily a natural inclination.
Of course, if Orlanth sent it because he's right narked off at you, yer
toast. ;-)
> You worship Orlanth in part to propitiate such a powerful force or to
> use it against your foes.
Or to put it in more myth-congruent terms, because Orlanth will keep
his unruly kin in check: such as the ones who'd call unmitigatedly
unpleasant stuff, like a tornado (Brastalos, I suppose, or some
miscellaneous Vadrusite black sheep).
Jon Thorvaldson explains the geas:
> Sometimes it is simply a ban [...] At other times it means that one
> will know how one shall die [...]
These are sort of flip sides of the same thing; the geas of the first
sort can be imposed by someone who has Seen a (possible) death for the
person in that sitution. Though geasa of the first sort can be imposed
for other reasons, so they're not precisely that.
Slainte,
Alex.
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