From: Alex `Maybe single quotes work?' Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 13 Apr 1994 - 00:44:39 EEST
> The great strength of the Pamalt pantheon has always been its
> widely-networked association of cults. Every important cult has a
> LARGE number of associates. Pamalt, for instance, has 13 that I know
> of (if we count all the Land Goddesses together as 1).
> Bolongo: the local trickster sect. He only provides a very few
> spells, and his worshipers are pitied, but not necessarily tolerated.
Does this follow the same pattern as `generic' (GoG) pattern of Trickster worship? Anyone have good guesses as to which aspects are associated with Bolongo? (Or come to that, with Eurmal, or with Rakenveg. I hereby bet my house Firebringer is (most usually) a Eurmal aspect, and Borotory should be compulsory for all Tricksters. <g>)
> Cronisper the Wise: an Old Man cult, and the only major one, in
> contrast to the multiplicity of important Old Woman cults.
Cronisper has always sounded Dayzatarish to me. Did the God Learners make this correspondance?
> Duala (Voria): the daughter of Faranar and Pamalt. She is born every
> year and makes the good rain come (as opposed to the bad rain).
Why the association with Voria? These cults sound less than identical from my (uninformed) PoV.
> Hondori Mal (Babeester Gor): Her cult is recognized here, with
> remarkably few changes. Her ancient tasks of sacred avenger and
> guardian of the earth are needed as much in Pamaltela as anywhere.
Perhaps this cult isn't female-only in Pamaltela. (female :: earth seems a less fixed association in Pamaltela.) This would at any rate account for the Bludner in Elder Secrets which would otherwise have every single dryad in the jungles worshipping HM/BG.
> Jmijie: a god for wanderers who belong to no tribe. He has lots of
> mobility spells and might actually be some sort of advanced form of
> the Mastakos sect, an obscure rarely-worshiped god of Genertela.
I don't think Mastakos is `obscure', he just happens to be a de facto Orlanth subcult. I personally think he has more magic than described in GoG, when worshipped in specialised sub(sub?)cults in his roles as Charioteer and Runner, usually in the service of some Big Noise Orlanthi. His billing as one of the Major Gods of Glorantha takes some swallowing, though.
> Noruma: the god of shamans and magic. Most shamans at least toy with
> this cult.
How close is this cult to Horned Man?
Alex.
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