From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Sat 03 Sep 1994 - 01:08:42 EEST
Original Source David on Vinga's runes:
> I seem to be outnumbered on this -- I use just Mobility and Air.
I join David in his outnumberedness. Even if she _is_ Ernalda's daughter, she's not a Woman's Path deity, and has no real earth function that I'm aware off. (Compare with Lodril, who has a _huge_ earth function (entendre unintended, but not "withdrawn" -- fnarr), but not the rune.)
> But if
> Greg treats her as an Orlanth subcult, does the Earth rune give her
> anything?
Doubtless not. Yet more evidence that Greg's an Evil Sexist (if more were needed after Dara Happa and Seshnela); we must stop him going to all those Men's Mythology workshops.
> As for Bryan's thought that she is Orlanth's sister, could be. I prefer her
> being his daughter from a one-night stand, as always happens with mythic
> heroes, but that hero could be Umath, I suppose.
I don't see this as a huge issue; after all, we already have license to confuse Umath and Orlanth whenever we like (to wit, Greg does).
> I treat Vinga as a subcult as described by Alex (though I don't forget that
> _I_ came up with the Wind Run spell :-). Except that I don't see
> Vinga-specific temples (they do have their own separate shrine building in
> the rambling Orlanth temple complex in Kilwin).
I don't think Vinga temples are at all common, but the reference in G:G to Kallyr's Red Hair Lodge suggets to me that they can form when (direly) needed. Though their "temple" may not be bigger than a shrine in RQ3 terms, anyhow.
Alex.
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