From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@compuserve.com)
Date: Wed 02 Nov 1994 - 20:03:07 EET
> Does anyone agree with me that the God Learners seem to be winning?
> The myths of all cultures seem to be evolving towards each other into
> the mono-myth.
Nope. In fact, the monomyth of the Second Age is falling apart, and the God Learners are all dead and gone. BTW, why do you think the confusion which surrounds the whole Elmal/Yelmalio business on all sides is somehow reinforcing the monomyth? It seems to be doing quite the reverse!
> Still, Esrolia has held its own against more warlike neighbors
> because its clans are very willing to work together against
> outsiders. Whereas the Lunars can pit one Sartarite clan against
> another, and the Grazers steal each others' herds, Esrolian clans
> stick together like earthworks.
Esrolia has *never* held its own against outsiders. It was run by the Trolls for the First and Second Ages, by the Pharaoh in the Third Age. Right now, in the absence of an external central authority, there is a godalmighty civil war going on there, with the Red Earth and Warm Earth and Old Earth and who knows what other factions kicking the crap out of each other. Even under the Pharaoh, the regional dynasties were always scheming and plotting against each other; and now it's far, far worse.
> Esrolia is actually a fairly egalitarian society, but it looks
> oppressive to foreign men, who are used to doing only 35% of their
> society's work....
"Work? Work!?! We're heroes, I'll have you know! Why should we get our hands dirty working in the fields, when there's Quests to be done?"
Which is to say, I agree with you completely! The consonance of Esrola = Asrelia, given that Asrelia is an archetypal Temple Treasurer Goddess, is particularly useful when working out how Esrolite society looks.
> What do the Lunars do with the baby giants? (Horrible thoughts come
> to mind...)
Urg. You don't think this is the Red Emperor's insatiable lust for horny boys all over again? Well queried. I shall not sleep well, tonight.
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