From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 02 Sep 1994 - 22:02:10 EEST
Bryan J. Maloney asserts:
> First, Bless Earth is necessary to merely get a "normal" crop in Genertela.
Does anyone have a source for the "Truth" of this? Several people have suggested it, I know, but most of them have been selling something. Hard to tell if this is a Type One or Type Two Flat Statement.
> In Pameltela, since the Father of the Land still lives, things are naturally
> fertile, and Bless Earth gives you an excessive crop.
This would seem more likely if either: Pameltela actually _was_ more fertile than Genertela; or if there was notably less earth worship in Pameltelan argicultural societies than in Genertelan ones. (Maybe this latter is true, though.)
> As for Vinga, I have ALWAYS seen her as Orlanth's sister. What evidence is
> there that she is Orlanth's daughter?
That her cult is (Gregged to be) so much like Orlanth's suggests it; if they were siblings, one would expect greater differtiation, unless they were actually twins... (Yes, I am aware that fraternal twins are no more genetically similar than other siblings, but I bet most Orlnathi mythologists aren't.) Not that she appears in the KoS chart in either (or indeed any) position.
> I see her as one of the many unsung
> and underappreciated daughters of Umath. She is an Orlanth "subcult" in
> many Theyalan cultures because they just can't figure her out otherwise.
Saying that Vinga has a particular nature, it's just that her worshippers fail to understand it correctly, seems a somewhat odd line of argument.
Alex.
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