From: David Gadbois (gadbois@cs.utexas.edu)
Date: Thu 01 Sep 1994 - 15:29:00 EEST
From: SMITHH@A1.MGH.HARVARD.EDU (Harald Smith 617 726-2172)
Date: 31 Aug 94 05:28:00 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5973
But if the tripolis had a unified mythos already, why would this be needed? 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.
Wow, that makes a lot of sense. It's just the sort of trick Greg would pull, too. Another piece of possibly supporting evidence: Each of the Ten Tests apparently came from one of the original ten Dara Happan cities, indicating a much more federated empire than one is led to believe by Plentonius. It would also go a long way to explain the multiple flood myths and the confusion over which sun god is in the sky when.
On the other hand, the Seshnegi at the Dawn did recognize Yelm as the Sun, which leads me to think that maybe Plentonius' multiplicity of suns is a ReAscent deconstruction to explain the lack of the sovereign aspect in post-Dawn Dara Happa.
--David Gadbois
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