Qizilbashwoman

I'm here to agree that I Do Not Like Lumley Lovecraft (and also I don't like Titus Crow)

ok but not antisemitic (because there are no Jews, I personally feel like they would be if Jews existed in Glorantha)

unclear if English is your first language, as always, but that does not mean "member of a phalanx" in English, it means "antisemitic Catholic fascist", just as "fascist" is not a person who wields fasces

i've made the argument a lot that the gender system of the Orlanthi has a lot to do with their mortality rates being significantly closer to those of the current era: shamans and priests who can cure disease and heal and an entire pantheon of deities dedicated to safe and effective childbirth means birthgivers and children survive, a critical issue in human life, and where "women" was a significant category for historical life it is not so for Gloranthans, and overlap between the two is our bias. I've also argued that gender in many Gloranthan societies is largely runic, and that Greg had shifted his perspective radically in the 90s from real-world gender to a different system, hence the rising cult of Orlanth-with-boobs and the like.

why don't they use the composite? I always think of them as being more "Eurasian mounted" than "irregular dude hucked onto a mount"

the brithini are immortal because they believe they are immortal if they obey the rules so idk man you're smarter than me also someone said earlier in the thread that real world religions are messy as fuck and as a person who studied religion as a major, particularly late antiquity, I kind of like not knowing

It also seems to be part of an expanding knowledge, because Theyalan religions taught five earlier on.

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Archaeologists and anthropologists are not as convinced as you are. There is a strong religious movement opposed to child sacrifice starting in the 6th century BCE or so and culminating in the colonisation of Carthage specifically as a site of "we still sacrifice in the old way". The Bible isn't the only place where child sacrifice is mentioned or specifically replaced (the bris [Covenant with Abraham]), the sacrifice of the firstborn in "Egypt"; the Binding of Isaac, the daughter of Jephthah, the son of the king of Moab, the sons of the Kings of Judah Ahaz and Manassah), but it's the one that most people are going to be familiar with. Sites are doubtless predominantly just cemeteries for children, but sacrifice of children is attested. The ancient Near East was wilder than most people think. I read a letter in a linguistics course at Harvard that was from a Hittite lord regarding a rebellious vassal, and in it he states clearly that he killed and ate the "rebel" king's mother and sister after he captured him. The letter was to a third party subordinate as a kind of update briefing, not apparently a propaganda document for the public. (Little-known fact: Hittite is a cousin of English.)

I don't know what this is referring to with regard to my post

broo are essentially "demons". while this approach is appropriate for other creatures, the Chaos taint in broo is innate. of course, there's that one broo who heroquested to purify themself of it (I smell a PC), but otherwise they are in fact just Chaos monsters. a Chaos beast is just that. compare them to Telmori, who are actually people. broo used to be people in the God Time, but they haven't been people since Ragnaglar fell in the sex pit.

probably before Monrogh Lantern died in 1585, and likely more like the 1550s

in Little Vaantar, right?

Also this is a piyyut (religious poem, psalm) still recited by Sefardi (Iberian-origin) Jews during the Days of Awe; while the performance is Ottoman-era and Ottoman-style, it has minimal intrumentation. The piyyut, בַּת אֲהוּבַת אֵל "Beloved Daughter of God" (Bath ehuvath Ēl), itself starts about 57 seconds in. Piyyutim are associated with the Palestinian (as opposed to Babylonian) tradition and are actually much later in use in the Sefardi rite, but piyyutim date back to the very earliest days of Judaism.

If you haven't heard DAKHABRAKHA, they're fun Ukrainian music with truly excellent hats and A-WA are Yemeni Jewish musical artists

yes clearly you have no iron in this fire

first, you shouldn't ever use "Colored" unless you are South African and describing a specific ethnic group; but then you'd spell it Coloured. Colored (or coloured) is a racial descriptor historically used in the Jim Crow United States and is a slur. second, we don't use they "for the sake of appeasing the mob of activists"; we use they, because it is the historical epicene pronoun that English speakers use when speaking. Since the FOURTEENTH CENTURY. In fact, people often use it while arguing that 'they' is not legitimate. Prescriptivists attempted to force English speakers to use only "he" for a long time but it failed outside formal writing, and that standard is no longer the norm, the spoken form is used. People say "someone forgot their flashlight", not "someone forgot his flashlight", when they don't know who it is who forgot the flashlight. You can argue all you want about how it's An Oppressive Minority Changing Speech but it's frankly untrue - and also ignores that speech communities change their norms all the time. If we no longer use "he", then i'm sorry your toes are bruised but that's just how people speak and now how people write. You can read all about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

oh no i play elf games but i have too limited a brain to understand gender or fun side question, this is clearly a troll raid, why are the moderators not locking this

what on earth

bro the singular epicene usage of "they" in English is older than the singular usage of "you". Chaucer used it in the 1300s and Shakespeare uses it constantly. It has never not been a part of English. Source: I am a linguist.

The PHP don't agree with Pelorian narratives, so does this matter? Also, when did Hon-Eel prove she was Dendara? Both are genuine questions.

i should note his novel remains in print and popular with neo-nazis

i saw this in the preview and was like WHAT NOW I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT THIS TOPIC IS ABOUT

we won't know till the book comes out but she still was a devil hell moon troll witch I hope she still has spirit cults, though

Jakaleel would be a wild choice that I bet the Esrolians would love, because she's a troll death witch, but she's played down in the Seven Mothers representations and I doubt the Lunars have the cultural competency to present these mysteries to the Red Earth Faction.