>In message <djpmqu+sujb_at_...> "Jeff Richard" writes:
>
>>>There is also a Solar Ernalda who is one of Yelm's concubines and
>>>the Yelmalian Ernalda who is the wife of Yelmalio. Both had a
>>>fling with the rebel Orlanth but did not marry him.
>>>
>>>
>>Ummmm... I don't think that Ernalda is acknowledged by any maintstaim
>>Yelm worshipper as anything other than a foreign goddess. Check out
>>GRoY if you can. According to the Dara Happans, Yelm is a very chaste
>>emperor, having relations with only his lawful wife Dendara.
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>As Roderick says, Ernalda is a Great Goddess so she must exist
>in the Solar Pantheon. It may be as Navestos's wife and with a
>different name but I can't see her complete absence.
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>
There is also the Goddess Oria, who is the companion of Yelm's brother
Lodril. I am sure the God-Learners would have equated her with Ernalda,
but that doesn't mean that they are the same Goddess. Oria followers
come from much lower position within Dara Happan society, and are
considered lowbrow, common, and lusty. Noble women would worship chaste
and virtuous Dendara, Good wife of Yelm. And then for renegade and/or
wronged women, there is the Goddess Gorgorma.
In the Dara Happan myths, Dendara, Oria and Gorgorma are sometimes considered to be sisters, and they constitute 3 parts of a Dara Happan six Souls. (Body Soul, Beast Soul and Shadow Soul, respectively.) If you wanted to get all God-Learner-y about it, Dendara corresponds to Ernalda the Queen (and some Healer Aspects), Oria to Ernalda to Esrola and the Manifest Earth, and Gorgorma to Maran Gor/Babeester Gor/The Dark Earth.
-Santo
"Aum Shanti Shanti Shantih."
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