> > Yara Aranis is a spider-like goddess after all.
>A spider with two legs pulled off... the goddess of the Reaching Moon
>has 4 arms.
She certainly is depicted with four arms on the cover of Gods of Glorantha but elsewhere she has six. There is in KoS the six-armed goddess of Saird who guards the Temple of the Reaching Storm in Saird and who drags back Sheng to hell after a terrific battle which makes her known as the Goddess of Six Arms and Two Hands (all this from Argrath's Saga)
The description of her as "spider-like" actually comes from the Fortunate Succession and so that's why in the Glorantha Intro, the glowline is described to be a web of lunar energy that surrounds the empire. To further the Arachne Solara parallel, Yara Aranis after feeding devouring her sacrifices begets the Reaching Moon.
--Peter Metcalfe
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