From: Argrath@aol.com
Date: Tue 16 Aug 1994 - 04:38:35 EEST
Re: "Greg" as a verb
Well, since Michael Morrison asked for comments on his definition of "to Greg," I'll provide mine. I don't care for it. There's bound to be some venting of the irritation we feel when the rug gets pulled out from under us, but I resent the kind of personal dissing involved in using "Greg" as a verb.
Re: Dara Happan weddings
I imagine that they're like some traditional middle eastern weddings (don't ask me where, I don't recall), where the bride is not present. The groom and the bride's father sit down and do a little ritual.
Esvenratha could either be another name for Uleria (which would make her appear twice in the suitors' list), as a Ulerian's customers are her husbands in the Ulerian rite. Or she could be the goddess of widows, having lots of husbands but only one at a time. I don't read GRAoY to say that Lodril invented marriage, or that Yelm's was the first.
Re: Man + Woman /= Six
Outside Glorantha analysis: Greg Stafford may have made a mistake, but I doubt it, given the attractiveness of the other explanations:
Textual analysis 101: Plentonius (or his source) put together more than one version of the same tale. Some parts of the story were too important to leave out--in other words, leaving them out would have offended important people. Textual analysis of the Genesis creation story, for example, has yielded four different strains of story, which melded or accreted to form the received version. (Sorry, any Biblical literalists out there. Damnable heresy, I know--those Biblical scholars are a wild bunch.) That's why God creates man and woman twice in Genesis. In GRAoY, Plentonius combines at least two stories about the origin of people.
Textual analysis 201: Plentonius left out part of the story. For some reason (and several make good hypotheses), he left out the bit between where Yelm tells Man and Woman to get dressed and the part where he gives dominion to the Six Aristocrats, who were presumably M&W's descendants.
Re: Evil Empire = Lunar Empire
Obviously, the reason why the E.E. survived the fall of the sun, etc., is because it is "that empire up north" to the Orlanthi. Even the Lunars see continuity between the solar and the Lunar empires.
Re: Jar-Eel t-shirts
Maybe someone from Reaching Moon Megacorp would like to announce on the Daily where people in North America can order their t-shirts from? Mike Dawson said the Jar-Eel, Assassin ones were the coolest.
--Martin
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