I was thinking of an article in a Gloranthan magazine which described herd spirits by some name I cannot remember - "wyter" ? or some such I think (At least I'm pretty sure I remember some such article, it could have been online) . Anyway, this was a smaller spirit than the protectress, much smaller in he case of a small herd and getting larger with herd size and more or less reflects a collective subconscious. I was kind of postulating this acts as an intermediary with the tribal protectress; perhaps it is a portion of the protectress herself, or rather the full protectress is the combination of all these wyters?
I'll happily admitt though I didn't start with the thoery as a matter of principle and work back to the suggestion re the protectresses. - Of course I thought of an end I wanted and then looked around for a myth that could fit with a little bending... - hey wait a minute: isn't that a heroquest ? :-)
Good to hear from you Keith.
Cheers - Chris
At 14:08 27/05/03 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 27/05/03 09:56:39 GMT Daylight Time, cw67q_at_udcf.gla.ac.uk
>writes:
>
><< Furthermore, for the protectress to be able to appear, the herd collective
> spirit (I forget its' name) must be strong. Disrupted herds do not have a
> magical link strong enough to allow the protectress to appear - they are
> fair game for rustlers. >>
>
>The Protectress *IS* the herd collective spirit. Just being pedantic.
>
>Keith
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