On 3/19/01 at 4:32 PM markmohrfield_at_... wrote:
>Ian Hammond
>> 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.
>>
>
>But you don't actually have to bind an Umbroli for the work, you
>could just ask it to do the work or offer to pay it somehow. "If you
>turn the blades of our mill, o lord of winds, we shall raise a
>standing stone to you and praise your name each harvest."
Or could it be some kind of a wyter of the people who use the mill? To me
there's a very magical feel about an actual mill, with the wind and the
earth coming together to produce flour, the rotational movement being
related to both the Storm rune and the Movement rune, a dedication of part
of the grain to the wyter, etc.
Guy
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits. -
Albert Einstein