RE: LBQ and souls

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From: Gianfranco Geroldi (giangero@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri 20 Jul 2001 - 11:05:20 EEST

> And on another note, we know that CA
> resurrection is sort of a lesser
> version of the LBQ. Do we know what the rituals and
> myths behind
> resurrection is in other cultures that have that
> power? I'd be very curious
> to know how it comes out from a Yelmic perspective.
>
> - -Ben Waggoner

I am sure others have better insights than me on this
subject but here are my two lire:

LBQ is an adventurous, cooperative, effort in which a
bunch of friends/allies tries to correct/redeem the
error of one of them. It's about friendship, alliance,
exchange, movement and repentance.

Yelmic theology seems to me straighter and more
coercitive. It's about authority and hierarchy. I
suppose that a Yelmic hero has to travel to the right
otherworld/hell where his friend is kept, fight/scare
the boss of that precise otherworld/hell and command
him/her to release the hero's friend. The main problem
is that if the otherworld/hell lies within the
mythological boundary of the Darkness, Yelmic power is
greatly reduced so the hero can be unable to
defeat/scare the boss of the otherworld. I daresay few
Yelmic resurrections succeed anyway.

Earth resurrections are more likely to succeed and I
place in this category also aldryami resurrections
(based on growth/green age myths) and Lunar
resurrections (based presumably on Earth-age myths).
Earth, IMO, has the power to negate death and the
knowledge to anticipate it. So a resurrection quest
could request, for example, that the killer is caught,
deprived of his death powers in a mythical contest so
that the killing has not occurred since he was not
able to wield it.

I wonder if Lunars can also perform a sort of tricked
LBQ, based on Storm myths healed to fit the Lunar way.

Ok, enough ramblings for the moment.

Ciao,
Gian

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