From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Fri 03 Jun 1994 - 11:19:02 EEST
> Heler is one of the most aggressive of the war gods of the Orlanthi.
Balls. He's not a warrior, although his statues are painted blue, and so he is never shown holding weapons to avoid misunderstanding. He is more often a lover -- which leads me neatly on to:
> Heler is associated with sheep (among others because of the cloud forms).
Getting coy, Joerg? <g>
> If we think through this further, he is likely to have worn a helmet with
> a rams horns.
If he ever wore a helmet, which I doubt. Now, Yanafal Tarnils wore a helmet with ram's horns (codpiece, too!), and came from Yuthuppa...
I liked Joerg's hypothesis in utero. This developed version is malformed. IMHO.
> Though the GL did not intend to destroy the world, their activities
> unwittingly undercut the world's basis. Glorantha reacted by sending
> antibodies to eliminate the threat.
I wonder if Greg's "Glorantha hypothesis" predated the "Gaia hypothesis".
On Loskalmi "Good Guys", I find the Genertela Book statement that:
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