Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Celestial Court

From: Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_sm40Kl0gTGP5NRCBrPc8Ly_A5_ddYrfHwWUFKG80Nw-Q0-oq7uWEhJ2nWP14JjSPSXczmm>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:28:29 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Greg Stafford wrote:

> YGWV
>
> Quoting Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_GRzOdyK3qdMx5VaU7bs6wjMKhEApyrtiz0IUqYVyRQpSyOLDVKAOA8OpJTPmFl5J_axi1P3UWNGuq3buSA.yahoo.invalid>:
>
>>> The only deity from the Celestial Court that is alive AS ITSELF is
>>> Uleria. According to Orlanthi philosophy, the others were broken into
>>> bits, ground up, pulverized and scattered in molten droplets
>>> everywhere to become part of the Everything World.
>>
>> I'm just nagged by the Kargan subcult of Humakt. How was the Kargan the
>> sub-cult is named after?
>
> It is a word that means something like "Fighter" or "ar Guy."

Ahh - that explains it then.

>> When did he/she live? Any chance that it is
>> some very weak fragment of Kargan Tor still retaining some individual
>> identity?
>
> YGWV, so yes of course.
> But I myself don't see it to be such.
> Humakt, Zorak Zoran, Shargash etc. are better repositories of portions
> of the Celestial Court God.

Hmm, ok, thanks.

Michael

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Dr. Michael Hitchens
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Macquarie University
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