From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon 20 Aug 2001 - 01:23:47 EEST
Peter Larsen
>JL>But Humakt is a special case, because he is the god of Separation.
> Here I thought Shargash killed him, just like he killed everything
>else before he killed himself (or let himself die, because there was
>nothing left to kill).
You are mixing mythologies which makes your conclusion flawed.
Humakt and Shargash come from separate cultures and do not
interact in the world-destroying stage. If you want a God
Learned explanation for this, you can blame it on the
disintegrating world.
> >Humakt is probably a Greater God, or would be if the cosmos
> >weren't so terrified of acknowledging him as one or if other
> >major Gloranthan entities didn't jealously keep portions of
> >Death for themselves.
>I disagree. I think part of being a greater god is having many
>aspects and being able to do many things -- Orlanth kills and
>heals, herds and farms, dispenses justice and causes discord.
Under another definition, a greater god was one that owned a
rune (thus Uleria for love, Orlanth for air). Humakt certainly
fulfills this criteria with his death rune ownership.
Shargash does not represent life. His Death is necessary for
Life to exist but that is different.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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