From: G. Fried (address.removed@nowhere.tld)
Date: Thu 24 Jun 1993 - 20:10:38 EEST
G. Fried here.
to Sam Phillips:
You're welcome!
As for 'domestic magic', here are some ideas. I would imagine that Dendara
especially, and many other Earth goddesses would teach 'hearth' magic. As
would Mahome (see Lodril), god of the Hearthfire. Ignite and Light are
certainly useful around the home. Chalana Aroy might provide some household
magic, eg, a spirit magic spell like Disinfect. This might only tell you
that something needs more cleaning to be sanitary, not do the job itself. A
hearth god/dess might also provide a Detect Enemies for the home, as well as
a Warding. An aspect of the Trickster god could help find lost objects!
("Now where did that pesky imp of a son put my best scissors!" ('Ping!' [use
of a spell.]) "Ah, now I remember where I saw them last!")
This is rather than clutter up bandwidth in the main daily
re
>It was my impression from "Cults of Terror" page 91, that the rune that looks
>like the Fertility rune on its side with a vertical line through its node is
>the Undead rune (ie, it is Life + Death runes combined). I've noticed in the
>sorcery discussions that people refer to a 'Hunger' rune. I had no idea what
>that meant until now.But where do you get this from?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Greg, eventually. The obvious Life+Death = some intermediate state has clearly been determined to be some god-learner heresy; the official word is now that the rune denotes Vivamort's hunger for existance - and is why Krarsht has been assigned the rune in Gods of Glorantha.
>I know nothing about Elmal. (Is there a god Yio too?!)
The short answer is "go read _Kingo of Sartar_". To elaborate, Elmal was a thane of Orlanth's, who guarded his homestead while he quested to restore the Sun. His cult was that of an obedient guardian spirit of light, a solar cult tamed to accepability amongst storm people. Later, the Orlanthi Elmal was identified with the elves' god of last light, and other Solar myths from the north. KoS is very revisionist, claiming that the Yelmalio cult didn't exist until ~1450ST (compared with its activiy in Prax c800ST mentioned in _Cults of Prax_ - or even the post-KoS published _River of Cradles_).
Unfortunately, one of the routers through which the Daily reached me has thrown a wobbly at the formatting of the cult write-up. a "U" has been substituted for each "'"; and a "=<carriage-return>" thus
Yalem is the child of the White Moon and the Sun, who together concei=
inserted to break the text into 69 character lines. I've noticed that this also often leads to long "lines" (i.e. word-wrapped paragraphs w/carriage returns marking paragraph breaks) being truncated abruptly too.
Other attributes of Yelm are of healer and harpist; I presume that there are different cults to carry those, if they are of importance to your culture?
GF out.
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