From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Fri 22 Apr 1994 - 14:04:46 EEST
John Hughes in X-RQ-ID: 3753
> YELMALIO/ELMAL - CHAOS BOOTLICKING LUNAR PROPAGANDA
> Someone said...
> * ...the Vantaros and Tovtaros tribes of the
> * Alda-churi seem to have disposed of Orlanth as a positive figure in
> * their myths and have Yelmalio as their main male deity (according to my
> * impression from David Hall's article in the RQ-Con booklet).
I plead guilty.
> Over to Tarful Thunderstone, an old Tovtaros acquaintance from
> Ironspike...
> 'Just who is this Glowric Truthsayer anyway? And just which of
> those stickpicking Lunar sons of lame trolls and desperate broo do
> you think he works for? I'd like to show him the pointy end of
> my argument, I would. That one Divad Llah too. The shame. Lies!
> Proper geese, that's all it is.
Doubtless one of Orlanth Thunderous.
> Underneath it all, most of them are still Orlanthi, 'cept its illegal,
> so we keep it quiet. In our hearts, but we remember everytime
> we breathe. The Righteous Wind - that bit's true too - but it was
> about Lunars, nothing to do with the sun. Least not that I heard...
Orlanthi in the sense of Orlanth worshippers? Wishful thinking...
> 'Those Vantaros, they're good Orlanthi, just like us! Especially the
> dead ones. In their hearts and in their breath. 'Cept for the ones
> that aren't. I never met me a Yelmalio, 'cept them that hide in the
> city 'neath the Goddess' skirts. Good Elmal stock we are.
Now what? Elmal or Orlanth?
I think it makes a great difference whether clan allegiance is to Orlanth or the Cold Sun god, whatever his name. An Elmal Clan is likely to have less "democratic" (in an Iceland Thing or Heortling style) structure than a Orlanth clan. This might in part reflect that Solars are conservative, so Elmali might retain the Vingkotling clan rulership, of which we know little, but which may have been more despotic than the Heortling ring - after all, back then Orlanth himself was at home and had the last word on everything (even if only a soft "Yes, Ernalda dear"), and when he left for the LBQ, Elmal took over.
Opinions?
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