Re:Outlawry = death

From: John Machin <orichalka_at_Z5sKX0v445KSDlE67Aic5ZthkCWdCctEMVQOvZfmakNHb0i6nYBetv-dQKguWf844b>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:02:46 +1100

2009/1/8 bryan_thx <bethexton_at_fkLdBzDJRI_XfKq7-dlOyrZbOhJ1Qn0_Zwr4wR2a_siIsGcltoLuGfptbUhUo7XSg8ragz7aOaP4ADxJbA.yahoo.invalid>:
> 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.

2009/1/8 Stephen Tempest <e-g_at_V_qglbPHJHROjpgQ3Pm-YIQjEVNxOWflDOP0xN3yYQ5cHA27H50XbNnEMSvYFrAaB4n61BuAZUCJEl0UiSXyG_lc.yahoo.invalid>
> 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...

While I am not sure that the scythe-linked comments have much currency with respect to Glorantha I think that the different interpretations clearly represent slightly different takes on the myths of Death. I can see one being used in communities with "re-sheathed" Humakti; and the other in communities where the Humakti are still uncompromising.

Both kinds of myths could be true, to different people, surely?

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John Machin
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- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.