Nicknames for gods

From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_uMKzi9lx7f6mUvhvXYkr90M79uyIZ-kClmPe-GjHcqQQqhwLVOWndA--hPDQnh4Ll6gS>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:28:17 -0000


> Dobbie! lol

The Orlanthi have a long list of slurs and insulting names they have given to the Pelorian gods. Many are well known, frex "Dobbie" is the common insulting name for Doburdan, the "Evil Emperor" or "Slaver" for Yelm, "Jagrekriand" ("Bloody Demon") for Shargash, and the "Seven Madmen" instead of the Seven Mothers.

I can't print some of the insulting names for Lodril, suffice to say that "Dickhead" is probably the tamest. Others deal with the Orlanthi myth that Lodril had sex with his own sister and the term is commonly used to describe lowland Pelorian peasants.

Yelmalio is often called something that would translate roughly as

"Virgin", but with an obviously insulting meaning (literally
"Unsexed"). Malkion gets a few as well. "Sorcerer", "Atheist",
"Zzabur" and even "Dead God". 

The Red Goddess gets the most slurs and insults. "Shepelkirt" ("Poison Blood"), the "Mad Goddess", the "Chaos-Bringer", the "Queen of Demons", "Red Murderer" and "Oathbreaker Goddess" are among the many common names for the Red Moon.

Jeff            

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