From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 06 Sep 1994 - 08:59:45 EEST
Nick Eden:
> 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 this isn't the way the story is traditionally told in Dragon
> Pass. This is the Molani that the Lunar missionaries tell the people
> about in captured lands.
I think Nick's basically Correct, here, though I think the Lunars would soft-pedal it a bit more. At the risk of straying into the Entekos/Molanni debate, I'd think the Lunars would borrow freely from the former's cult when constructing the latter's, adapting it to fit Molanni's mythology and any existing Orlanthi worship of her.
> 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.
Not quite true, I don't think. I think she may have received propitiatory worship, as well as being invoked by nasty types on their enemies. Nothing like a proper "cult" though, I'd agree.
Alex.
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