> "Also some fertility rituals will involve a direct role for Humakt,
> such as those performed at the onset of winter when the old must
die
> to make way for the new, or at harvest time."
>
> Bah. I don't see Humakt as some New Age type clearing away the old
> to make way for the new. Nobody would say any such blather at a
> Humakti funeral in my campaigns! He's just death, period.
Death is an awful lot more than just the end of life, mythicaly
and in Glorantha anyway. Humakt is a Great God not because he's
good at killing, but because he encompases the role of
death in all it's aspects and consequences.
Simon Hibbs