From: Nick Eden (pheasant@cix.compulink.co.uk)
Date: Thu 01 Sep 1994 - 22:54:44 EEST
In-Reply-To: <9409010716.AA11519@glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM>
For the next issue of my fanzine I'm developing a Molani cult.
The central idea is that she is a wonderful noble self sacrificing
goddess who sacrificed her chastity to Yelm, her people's enemy, so that
Yelm and Orlanth would have something in common.
Naturally Yelm, being noble, recognises that she is a worthwhile member
of the Storm gods and takes her as his wife instead of his concuibine.
When her son is born Daga is a wonderful god, combining sun and clam air
to make a harvest god, a corn king if you like.
Orlanth, not being noble, is bitterly jeleous (if he hadn't been so
arrogant he could have been the corn king himself) and steals all of
Daga's fertility powers and gave them to Barntar and Heler, and finally
locks his nephew up in a box and uses him as a bogey man.
Up to the foundation of this cult, about 100-200 years ago, as a means of annoying the Orlanthi that the Lunars were competing with to the south, I don't think that Molani would have been worshiped in any way. Originally she's only a metaphor, but the nature of Glorantha is that metaphors sometimes acheive a live of their own.
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