From: Peter Metcalfe, CAPE Canty (CHEN190@csc.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Fri 02 Sep 1994 - 12:19:48 EEST
Harald replies
> Since I haven't seen anything other than GRAY on Entekos, I'm probably
> not in a position to comment with any certainty on the nature of the ur-
> Entekos. I would accept the following as true: she is Pelorian, not
> Dara Happan, in origin and is associated therefore with the ancient
> earth cults; she is linked by Plentonius with a host of air related
> titles (I concede that it is unlikely for her to transmute herself); she
> is the Mother of Moons.
Agreed in total. Given the title of the pre lunar moon tales 'Entekosiad', I would say she is mainly Pelandran.
> Is Entekos a Green Age or Golden Age entity? Given the general Dara
> Happan feeling towards goddesses and the patriarchal tendencies of the
> Golden Age myths, I would call her a Green Age entity. If this is the
> case, does she exist before Aether exists? If she does, she can't be
> an entity of air. If after, then she can certainly be an 'air' figure.
I think I see a basic assumption here that I in any case consider wrong. Pletonius says that the Gods Wall is of the 100 gods and goddesses bowing down before Yelm. This dates to 6250 YS. Ask yourself the following:
This should lead you into what I consider the right solution without any God Learning.
> Thus,
> Entekos might be the child created in the first union of earth and sky,
> rose up to her place, and was then torn down by Umath, though she left
> a calm space where her moon had been.
This is an interesting idea. It would account for the hatred that exists between Orlanth and Yelm.
> I concede this as unlikely, but I would ask whether the
> beastriders might not have reached Dara Happa prior to the battle as
> mercenaries in the employ of the Theyalans who had been around since the
> 1st century reawakening old spirits.
This is plausible as the First Council reached into Prax in 62 ST (according to Humakt in CoP). I still have no idea what this was about (despite 14 years of waiting).
> So...my thought is that the tripolis did not have a unified mythos, that
> each city and its surrounding area had its own unique mythos that
> Plentonius merged together.
True, the Prince of the Ten tests had to acknowledge Eusibus's city as one of the seven cities of Anaxial in the GRAY.
> Yelm, therefore, is a manufactured deity!
I disagree. Pletonius may have fudged things a little but he was not a God Learner.
> The true Dara Happan sun gods are Murharzarm in the north (probably from
> Yuthuppa and brought from the city that won--hence the mythic city of
> Yuthubars);
Actually Buserian is the Solar God of Yuthuppa.
> Antirius in the central region (though many of his myths
> suggest a southern Pelorian origin, as do the later Sun Dome temples);
IMO this is Murharzarm.
> and Shargash (or the earlier name Nemarthshar) in the south.
For Alkoth. IMO these are the three men created in the tale of the making of men in the GRAY. Gievn Solar bias it is no wonder the women aren't named.
The rest of your speculation is interesting. I won't comment further to avoid 'polluting an otherwise pure well' (quoting Greg when I asked him something), but keep up the good work.
_Peter Metcalfe
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