>I would think if a Humakti harvested anything the seeds would be
>useless for planting at the very least. Whether they'd still be food
>for living beings not so sure about. But yah, I'd not want Death
>anywhere near harvest either.
Not a fan of Sir Terry Pratchett, then?
I disagree with this approach. Humakt isn't an enemy god to be fought at all costs; he isn't Chaos. He's a scary and frightening but still essential part of existence, and a loyal follower of Orlanth and Ernalda.
People die when Humakt calls them. But they join the ancestors or are reborn into new bodies, and continue to help the clan after their death . The crops in the fields and the livestock in the barns also die each Earth Season, to enable the clan to survive another winter; but their deaths clear the way for the new crop to be born in spring. You wouldn't want dead people still hanging around the stead after they die, and you wouldn't want last year's crop still clogging up the fields when the new crop needs to be sown. Humakt takes care of both situations. He separates the wheat from the chaff...
As for Ernalda being "not dead but sleeping"... the Reaper doesn't kill the soil, he kills the crop growing in it. Big difference.
Stephen
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