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I was just reading something about how this is part of a common West Asian/Eastern Mediterranean mythic structure involving an older man, a beautiful wife, and a virile young man. While I'm not saying it wasn't something people experienced in real life, this story in particular (Helen) is an exemplar of a narrative that was extremely prominent. (Of course I have no idea where I read it, I'll try to find it but I'm leaving the country in two days it's kind of chaotic right now.) The story of the Trojan War, of course, is a variant where the story is all about the men. Helen was taken as a prize.

This is for the Dumbest Theories so here's mine: Muharzam got ganked by Orthanth with the help of a mysterious Bat, but he died-died. The story goes that he was rescued and restored as Yelm thanks to the Lightbringers. When the Sun returned it was in many faces. Pony Yelm (Kargzant) and Dara Happan Yelm are two famous ones, and in the end it was DH Yelm who won the battle. These Suns were not resolved theologically until Nysalor, but I digress. What Lightbringer would restore the Tyrant? No, no. Flesh Man. The artist now known as Humakt had slain Grandfather Mortal, his immediate ancestor (grandfather? not sure), and it was Flesh Man (shown "covered in ashes"!) who was restored as Yelm. This was restitution for Humakt's injury. Muharzam's Yelm is just Bijif.

who do you suspicion replaced Muharzam

monastery of saint catherine, the sinai, egypt, which has the oldest continuously-operating library in the world. it was build by 565 CE.

what about Three-Eyed "Dinosaur Shrimp"? they're pure "Heler married Ernalda"

hahaha it's just that Yelmalio is less Muharzam and more Dayzatar. (Muharzam is now-Yelm; Dayzatar, like many other solar deities, including Ourania, was Yelm when it was still a title.)

if you are curious what the heresy is, it is that thanks to Maimonides (d. 1204), Jewry worldwide did not believe in bodily resurrection. Going against Maimonides in the 1600s was kind of a Big Deal, particularly for Western Sefardim, who were recent converts after spending 200 years practicing Catholicism. (There were many heresies in that era, the most infamous of which was Sabbataeism; the entire Jewish world from England to Yemen believed for a whole year the actual Messiah had come, people sold everything in preparation for the Last Judgment.)

humans don't need alcohol to have children, but it sure helps

this is interesting, because for me I always think, "every Rune needs a Shargash"

the bat-goddess that helped orlanth strike down yelm by distracting him (the original Hill of Gold motif!) and was sent to hell is associated with darkness by Yelmites but also the destruction of the blue moon. It isn't clear what the mythological era role of moon was at that time. I personally see a big connection between the Red Bat and this figure

i haven't read it yet myself, but the story around it is so interesting. nowadays few people understand the significance of the skull and crossbones in the early modern art of Judaism, because it looks like pirates or Christian imagery of the same era! Nota bene: one of his students was Baruch Spinoza, the most notable recipient of a herem (excommunication from Judaism). I think it was accepted by Yelm and Aldrya because enlightenment movements had a very long history in Peloria and made their way into Solar faiths. The earliest figure was Rashorana, who was slain by the Devil and then returned, but she was followed by figures like the Atarks and Jernotius. These extra-Solar deities are the origin of Illumination's acceptance into Pelorian and then Imperial culture, although there were strong anti-Illumination movements in history within Solar cultures.

the Sun Domers definitely use ergeshi (kitori-lineage slaves) as field slaves. The Lunar colony uses transplanted Lunar serfs, although the colony fails at a certain point.

you get more from reading de la resurrección de la muerte, but you also lose SAN. Yes, I did discover a medieval Jewish heresiarch's book in an obscure language - Ladino - in real life, and yes, there were cultists (see image below from a graveyard in Germany).

OK, but he joined Ralzakark's Chaos army. (Then later he killed Ralzakark in a suicidal act.)

i am saddened it is not the Slavic Щ shch derived from earlier Ⱋ sht (koosh-CHEEL) I thought it was

tfw when your monad is a spider

always been a fan of the neologism ser, which I first encountered in Dragon Age: Origins and is a term for a knight: it's exactly sir but gender-neutral and is quite popular in fantasy and scifi. It is helpful to distinguish from a noble man (Lord: sir) or woman (Lady: Dame) who is not in fact a warrior. (Mages in that series who are warriors are not sera; they might have a specific title, such as "Warden" for members of the mixed martial and mage Grey Wardens, or Mage for a run of the mill member of the Order of Mages to which all other mages must be a member.) The form sera is used for someone of a lower rank than you when you are being polite: a king calls a knight sera.

that's an interesting point

one of my favorite books is Framing the Jina, which is about the role of images in Jainism: why worship images of the tirthankaras, who can't help you? What are the arguments for iconoclasm? What are the images like, how is gender portrayed if at all?

to be fair to the Red Goddess, it was not her magical working that created her, but rather the work of a crazy experimental Godlearner-informed cabal of Lunarbringer heroquesters. I've never been sure if the Lunarbringer quest has been repeated or not. Do (elite) Lunars heroquest it?

or old battlefields! poppies and yew, honestly

I couldn't see it on their online menu, but maybe? I used to cook puls punica using a Latin recipe and boy howdy did I love it. There is a recipe here but I didn't make it exactly like this: my cookbook called for couscous because the raw materials were harder to come by. I think ricotta made a convenient cheese choice, but these days you probably can get anything you want. The use of a bay leaf during baking was pretty solid, the flavor was fantastic. https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/2056-2/

premoderm cities are sometimes defined as "places where fast food exists". The Romans called theirs popinae, the Sabine equivalent of Latin coquinae "kitchens". The original curry takeaway.

The Ordeal of the Longhouse is a good choice if you are interested, because it's about what life was like for the Longhouse peoples. An alternative is a deep-dive into the prehistory of the longhouse societies of Northeast America/Canada, The Voice of the Dawn My primary inspiration for the Kerofinela Orlanthi comes from this and works about non-urban premodern Armenian societies such as described for the Hemshin, who were described by Europeans as "gloomy Homerian Cimmerians"; a decent work is The Hemshin: History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey. The Hemshin are also a longhouse people. Photo: Hemshin residence

barbie is the red goddess Gerra Barbie