Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Real World Vingans

From: <donald_at_VK7YxW2BPVRCx4Buo_godSKih2VJHToMNHfeRLMWdtpEG41dVkTMh9R8q_TsGu4GW5y6sq5h>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:55:26 GMT


In message <64459.78261.qm_at_dmaSPUDBEVU2PYYSm6PSIUA3rVeX_-B05cXZioRYKE1VJRgiL1sBbAb1-yo94lmRapYiSC9_8LgMXw1IducLGzJMFAsL56stvnHzbdengUo.yahoo.invalid> Jane Williams writes:
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>--- John Machin <orichalka_at_HWpDuOPDxbqWx-eBeROvhyibkGfrrjn0kVOMIF4YLR4cMyTAAQQR-ByzrT-8uUrVtE.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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>> On 02/04/07, donald_at_DJBrcu9IAqwWoWs-T_JGy1cSIocA83EosArfeFD6AAUZUcYH0oOgQHEHetVhG9qxmKjUck_nLXLiyqRTQN0.yahoo.invalid
>> <donald_at_DJBrcu9IAqwWoWs-T_JGy1cSIocA83EosArfeFD6AAUZUcYH0oOgQHEHetVhG9qxmKjUck_nLXLiyqRTQN0.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>> > However mythically it's probably easier for Vinga
>> >to father a child than give birth. If you want a
>> >myth I'd suggest something on the line of Eurmal
>> >lending Vinga his penis.
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>> Eurmal seems to be keen to share his, from the myths
>> I have seen around about, so perhaps Vinga takes him
>> up on it at some point (albeit not precisely how Eurmal
>> might have intended it).

That's a foregone conclusion with a trickster, nothing works quite how it was intended.

>It could be a fun little myth. There might even be a
>minor Vingan sub-cult based on it, if someone's game
>needed a Vingan to father a child. But making that the
>norm for Vingans would be an acute case of YGDV.

I'd even doubt the sub-cult, more a stray myth to be followed only by the mad or desperate (i.e. Player Characters).

Given that we've got Eurmal involved perhaps the myth is Vinga impregnates Nandan.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

           
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