Re: The Greeting

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:46:00 +1200


Dick Kingman:

>In King of Sartar, I was able to find the basics on Orlanthi hospitality,
>but I didn't find specifics on the greeting. There is a greeting, challenge
>really, given by Umath in The First Hospitality myth, but this does not seem
>to fit my notion of The Greeting.

I don't know what your notion of greeting is but Orlanthi classify strangers as potential hostiles until they have gone through the greeting ritual. Thus IMO the greeting challenge in KoS is the Orlanthi greeting ritual.

--Peter Metcalfe

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