Re: Re: Windmills

From: Peter Larsen <plarsen_at_...>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:28:51 -0600


At 04:21 PM 3/19/01 -0000, you wrote:
>Mark wrote:
>>
>> Remember the What My Father Told Me section of the old Glorantha:
>> Genertela, Crucible of the Hero Wars supplement, "Every man plows,
>or
>> wishes to, or works for those that do. Even Orlanth plows." Farm
>work
>> isn't seen as dishonorable by the Orlanthi.
>
>True there is probably nothing wrong with a wind doing agricultural
>work, for Orlanth did too. But the point here might be 'no one can
>make you do anything'. If you enslave a wind to do your bidding,
>binding him to your windmill, you take away his freedom and make a
>thrall of him. A 'free-farmer' wind (i.e. relying on the weather):
>OK, a 'thrall' wind (i.e bound by a priest): less likely.

        "Do not muzzle the oxen that threadeth out the corn," eh? Well, maybe the mill-god (there has to be one, right?" has a ritual that "pays" daimons (wind or water) or animals (oxen) for their work.

Peter Larsen

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