[WorldofGlorantha] Re: Pamaltela & Horses

At 11:49 AM -0700 29/7/07, David Dunham wrote:
>Greg
>
>> > why is Pamaltela so hostile to horses? Is there a mythic
>> > reason for this?
>>
>>It's not a deliberate hostility. Horses are not native to the
>>continent. They don't have food. They starve. It's nothing that Pamalt
>>did deliberately.
>
>My vague recollection is that it was something Hon Hoolbiktu did deliberately.
>
>++++
>Sandy Petersen, 4 Jun 1997:
>
>>horses get sick on the plains of Jolar quickly.
> This is probably just a superstition, because we know that
>horses are used
>to this day in the parts of Jolar nearest Fonrit. Anyway, it was not the
>case in the Second Age. Perhaps one of Hon Hoolbiktu's Dooms was a
>horse-afflicting disease, carried by some insect or worm indigenous to the
>plains.
>++++

        I've always liked the idea that it was something Hon Hoolbiktu did deliberately. Exactly what he did deliberately I'm not sure - originally I thought he might have asked for Pamalts intervention, now I think its likely something more complicated involving assisting on grain goddess to against another.

        But I think its likely something that changed - if horses really have always found Jolar that hostile, its doubtful that there would have been a Six Legged Empire at all, not even a short lived one.

	Cheers
		David