From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Sat 11 Jul 1992 - 09:56:33 EEST
In the last RQ discussion list, David Cake says:
>>The Rune in Gods of Glorantha above the Godunya cult
>>description (the weird one) is the Godunya rune, according to
>>Sandy Peterson. I presume that it is symbolic of the office of
>>Emperor or the Kralorelan Empire in general use, but I am not
>>sure as to its more spiritual function. Godunya is presumably
>>prime source of this Rune. Presumably a form Rune, unless it is
>>grouped with Mastery and Magic.
This rune is Dragon - I don't know what Sandy was thinking of when he
said that. Notice that Immanent Mastery also has it. In any case, it's
clearly called Dragon in several places. (Its similarity to Beast and
Dragonewt is by no means coincidental, of course.)
David comments at length about the odd rune above the Gorgorma cult in
GODS OF GLORANTHA - but Sandy once told me that the strange horizontal line
through the filled circle was a printer's error, and it is in fact supposed
to be Darkness.
Examination of the Earth goddesses in general will show you an
interesting duality - each benevolent goddess has a dark counterpart with
the opposite runes. The hollow square is benevolent Earth, the filled
square Dark Earth - and you should compare them with the empty circle of
light and the filled circle of Darkness.
To elucidate (apologies to those not using 80-column screens):
VORIA BABEESTER GOR
Fertility, Light Earth Death, Dark Earth
ERNALDA MARAN GOR
Fertility, Light Earth, Harmony Death, Dark Earth, Disorder
ASRELIA TY KORA KEK
Fertility, Light Earth, Luck Death, Dark Earth, Fate
DENDARA GORGORMA
Light Earth, Light Dark Earth, Darkness
So, it seems unlikely that Gorgorma would have a unique rune - it would
ruin the consistency of the Earth Goddesses.
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