From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu 18 Nov 1999 - 05:30:01 EET
Andrew Larsen:
> The listing in the Prosopaedia says that she was born from her
>mother's corpse, which doesn't make much sense, given that she's the
>daughter of Ernalda and Ernalda wasn't killed during the Godtime.
Although Ernalda wasn't killed, she and other earth gods did
go into the Death Sleep to protest the brutal murder of Flamal.
Babeester was born after this occurred.
>This suggests that her worshippers are berserkers, and indeed
>she has the Berserk rune spell, but why use Berserk when you
>can use Axe Trance and Great Parry instead?
Because Axe Trance and Great Parry are somewhat flawed in
> Wyrms Footnotes says that she goes invisibly and commands the
The GoG cult writeup is a shortform and does not include the many
>Snakepipe Hollow seems to suggest that she was turned into a
That's an idol of Babeester Gor, not the Goddess herself.
their descriptions? Best answer I can think of.
>spirit of Silence, but nothing else seems to elaborate on this, and it
>contradicts GoG.
cult spirits that Babeester Gor would have access to. Merely
because GoG does not mention that she gets a silence spell does
not mean that her worshippers do not have access to them.
>statue, but I haven't found anything to clarify this point.
> Any thoughts on all of this?
Here is Greg's latest mythlet of her, which was part of the
myth of the month at Glorantha.com several months ago.
Babeester Gor was born from Ernalda's dead body, and with her great axe
she killed everything which had harmed her mother,
especially the Talokans who were exterminated, man, woman,
child, and deity, and whose blood Babeester Gor brewed to be
her deadly food. This drink, or perhaps another made from
Babeester's own blood, once fortified Orlanth when he was in
the Underworld. She stood vigilantly over Ernalda's corpse
until the Dawn, when life began again and Ernalda rose from
her deepest slumber and took her dear daughter into her loving
arms. Since then devotees of Babeester Gor have stood guard in
Ernalda's temples, and avenged her wrongs.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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