Ali the Helering

I beg leave to disagree. Stealing the powers of an enemy by comparison with fostering a cult of bureaucratic corruption? Krarsht loses every time. In fact, musing about it further, I could easily rationalize a state supported cult of Thanatari assassins.

I think it fair to say that in a place as varied and magical as Glorantha, the definition of 'absurd' is very subjective. The ecology of a powerfully magical society is very much open to interpretation. YGWV.

During this time of Lent it strikes me as needlessly Trinitarian😇

Yeah, this was just an opportunity for me to moan, really. I think that making these RW/Gloranthan differentiations don't help anyone.

Since in another thread we are assured that Gloranthan herd beasts are not identical with their RW counterparts, can't we assume that humans are likewise different, and not naturally lactose intolerant? Come to think of it, does Gloranthan cow milk contain lactose? When you start down the 'non-identical' track, there is no logical stopping point.

Aldryami

And very nice German reds, which are often best served chilled!

That is, of course, the basic nature of myth - fact is irrelevant, it is the truth that matters!

The Compromise was broken by the revelation of Dayserenus, then that of Kyger Litor, and then Nysalor. I am using myth in the broad sense, here. I don't see why the Dawn would be liminal for myths, though; people still tell stories!

Indeed, and the agony will reinforce the personal and partial memories, increasing divergence rather than unity.

It all depends on how good you think their VERY long term memory is. As organic beings they are neither inexhaustible nor inerrant. For accuracy, go to the Mostali.

I doubt that they would fit being 'lit', rather I imagine an alternative solar pantheon to that foisted on Dara Happa by Yelmgatha.

Sheng Seleris lit the 'Old Lights of Dara Happa', and whilst unexplained these have potential.

I am afraid that I am a little too much of a realist/simulationist to join into too overt a buy-in to a GL/Cambellian Monomyth so fully.

Absolutely understood. That was never my question. Just as every community has its own rationalisation of who or what is the deity of the sun (as per recent threads), the sun being an undenied and undeniable element of the cosmos, then even if they do not know of the 'actual' cause, each community would have its own rationalisation of each and every such. Hence different pantheons with differing gods/spirits/whatevers of the same thing. Rather like in the RW. In the RW an event might be real and undeniable, but that does not mean that everyone will interpret it in the same way. Is a solar eclipse caused by the dragon of darkness eating the sun, one sun dying and another being born, the renewal of the sun, or (ridiculous, I know) the moon being interposed between earth and sun? Does the event require ritual bathing, tearing the hearts from victims atop a pyramid, the lighting of bonfires, or (ridiculous, I know) being viewed only through polarised lenses? It isn't that those who are not direct participants doubt the event, but how they rationalise/mythologise it that forms the basis of the question.

I know that, you know that, because we have all read about it since Greg wrote about it. My point is that if you are not in touch with the Nysalorian story, how do you attribute the curse?

I don't see why an Uz in Dozakiland would know of Gbaji. Seperated by several cultures and half a continent, why would he figure? This was the point of my question - for.lack of D'Wargon, what is the mythological justification for the Curse of Kin?

Thank you for your collective opinions. Not too sure where they will take me, but I am sure it will be an interesting ride!

Is Kyger Litor on Nysalor's bucket list?

Small, annoying, and regenerating. Oh joy.

The enlo might be used in mining, raising ham beetles and the like. Chern Durel has an oversupply of ancient statuary, some of which is stated to pertain to Darkness entities. Lunar goods from the caravan, Pentan from the trading posts, and Kralori by regular land trading and raiding. Human slaves from each of these and competing communities. Crops from the places blessed by the Blood Sun. Und so weiter....

Since the enlo of Chern Durel are noted as being slaves, I would think that they are constantly being renewed by the uz of Dozakiland, Eristland and Koromandol trading their value kin to the humans, while eating the others!😈

Actually I doubt that they would, necessarily. How many British people could differentiate the dates surrounding the invasions of England culminating in that of William of Normandy? They are either forgotten or conflated into 1066, an event a mere 953 years ago, with uninterrupted records and a distinct lack of draconic disruption! Lacking the understanding of what was happening to the west of them, they might easily understand this to be a curse four years in the making.

Since I am about to begin blogging re Chern Durel that was, indeed, the spur to my question. I don't think that the uz would simply accept it as a curse without someone being to blame! Since the Kralori identify the Sunstop with a mystical revelation to the Emperor, would he be a possible scapegoat?

Thanks, although I was not questioning the shared effect, but rather how it might have been locally interpreted.