Re: [HeroWars] Re: Hon-eel Maize Quest vs Miller Quest

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_C9ufe0oC-zJadlAUDMeSW3N3Twm4KRzddlSai7_flbtp2YdF9ITyViuV_FBraqJyFFWKxA2uaM>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:55:20 -0700

At 08:05 PM 8/22/2001 +1200, you wrote:
>>I recently ran an episode for our group, which involved the HonEel
>>corn rites. I decided to modify the supposition that Alanthore is the
>>*victim' in the rights and made Sinodal the victim. Why? Sinodal is
>>the elf-god lover of HonEel.
>
>Why? HonEel rescues Sinoda by killing Alanthore and gets corn.
>Without her intervention, Sinoda gets killed and the crop fails.
>Alanthore's death is necessary for HonEel's corn rite to succeed
>and for that reason, the people who play him ("convicted criminals,
>madmen, or impoverished down-and-outs" Glorantha:Intro pp102) are
>victims.

I partially disagree with Peter here.
Alanthore is the Blood Sun, the murderer who slays Sinoda and takes away the crop.
HonEel must confront Alanthore and get her lover boy back. She does, and brings corn back to life, and back to humanity. It is fertilized with the blood of Alanthore, who is slain for this rite.

>>[...] with the seduction and sacrifice of Pyjeemsab,
>
>Pyjeemsab was not sacrificed. Murdered, perhaps, but it's more
>probable that his ticker expired in the marriage bed.

I think Pyjeemsab WAS sacrificed, according to the old rites, in a manner that combined the Tarshite human sacrifice rites with the Alanthore human sacrifice rites.

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