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Qizilbashwoman

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  1. growing up as a young telmori must be confusing as heck
  2. it's interesting that we call both the weapon and the action "utuma" now is the Hate Kills Everything battle not also model-able with Hill of Gold? Zorak Zoran was the third party there
  3. ok but let's do some exegesis on the meaning of the narrative that Wakboth slew Kajabor! If they are the same, what is this meaning? Does it demonstrate the tainting of Chaos by Creation, making dead Kajabor the Death rune form of Chaos?
  4. For me I assume it's a hybrid situation between the Pueblo areas and the southern Mediterranean: Zola Fel is a tiny Nile, the Oasis People have sycamore figs ("Gikuyu trees"), date palms, and olives. The Siwa Oasis is a great example of how I think about the Oasis Peoples: it was home to a famous sacred site (Alexander visited the Oracle of Ammon there!), it is culturally very distinct from other peoples in the area, speaking a very divergent Berber language (thasiwith), and its name is from the Coptic (very late Egyptian) word for Oasis (wah) prefixed with a thasiwith abbreviation of an borrowed Egyptian word, sa, that meant "borderlands". Now add in some adobe buildings in a pueblo style - and adobe is a Coptic loanword! - up on the cliffsides, and bob's yer uncle.
  5. someone was discussing how Yelmalio there is female, and I Want to Learn More. that's why i was asking about a possible fusion of Yelorna-Yelmalio as a single cult there à la Amon-Ra or Serapis (< "Osiris-Apis"), my favorite Egyptian deity (i have two, the other is Sobek of the Faiyum, which had a unique mythology that didn't match the West-East of the Nile world-cartography of the rest of Egypt)
  6. this is inspired by the story of Sekhmet
  7. on that note, what do you think about the Ostrich people's version of Yelmalio? I'm interested in this unusual variant! Is it perhaps Yelorna and Yelmalio rolled into one somehow?
  8. Yelm was once female as well when Ourania mantled it (this was before Muharzam, obviously)
  9. For inland Orlanthi I've said before that I look to Armenian inspiration; ancient Armenia had such intense interactions with Persia and Greece but was such a different animal. It's a good source for architecture, clothing, and the like (although ethnically, I assume an extremely varied population; add in the blue skin of the Helerings and you've got a wild array of human appearance)
  10. clearly someone hasn't played SIX AGES.
  11. Caveat: Belintar is notably shiny, is this a reference to a goth phase (body)?
  12. if he is Kargzant, who is his Darkness and who is the second actor? (The dangers of being a god is that there are very specific ways of fighting them)
  13. I really do think it's a dragonewt. also, slarges are only found in remote Pameltela.
  14. i mean, in glorantha there are even wild humans
  15. i mean, humans eat monkey meat.
  16. in this case it appears to be a Dragonewt
  17. If you want to get properly Cthulhu about it, you'd make the armor itself have Chaotic influences on the wearer, their companions, and the community in which they live
  18. I would suggest the Monastery would be a wizardry-affiliated thing. Perhaps they are a remnant of Brithini warrior-caste training without the associated religious beliefs: given the idea of group isolation, maybe it's a uniquely-flavored training site for Humakti.
  19. https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/cult-membership-in-sartar/ this indicates the Nunnery is of Chalana Arroy, which crushes my dreams of Gloranthan Qowat Milat (below: the only male Qowat Millat ever to exist). Side note: if you aren't watching Picard, you're missing some of the best Star Trek and best television ever made.
  20. this is a nysalorean riddle, i'm not going to fall for it
  21. ok but then didn't the Spider (SWT) take it over and the Moon is (was) trying to take it from the Spider?
  22. all the potlucks serve are bizarre ritual meals such as "funeral potatoes" (for Brits: this unholy Midwestern creation of potato chunks mixed with Cream of Something Unhealthy soup and topped with sour cream and corn flakes is associated with the Mormons)
  23. I mean, Yiddish is a western variety of High German, it's only difficult to outsiders because it is written in a different script and it has different loanwords: Aramaic and Hebrew versus Latin for theological terms, with a decent amount of day to day words like animal names in Ukrainian, plus what it borrowed from French was via Ukrainian doesn't always overlap with what Standard High German borrowed from French - they are more in line with what Polish, Ukrainian-Byelorussian and Russian borrowed from French. for example, i live on the dritn etazh (< Fr. étage), and a beetle isn't ein Käfer, it's a zhug Galician Yiddish is the variety that most Hosidim speak (and therefore most Yiddish speakers), and I have to say, their accent is basically the Appalachian one to my ear. They don't say ays "ice", they say aas ([a:s]), they don't say kleyd, they say klayd, they don't say zhug but zhig, and their o turns into u (a kholem "dream" is a khulem).
  24. i know this is getting off-topic but I'm reading a targum (translation) of the Torah in Yiddish class and let me tell you the absolute TEA that is Genesis... if you are curious, a many-colored garment is "a filfarbige kleyd"
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