While many Lunar runes have a vertical line, I would not say that a vertical line is Lunar.
First, the runes are pictured in a standard alignment, but in fact, in
Glorantha they appear upside down, backward, and sideways right or left and
mean the same thing. Part of this is that we use a font that is always the
same.
Point is, a circle with a horizontal line is exactly the same as a circle
with a vertical line.
Lunar runes are often bifurcated to reveal the Lunar concept of dualism and balance.
Second, the Babeester Gor rune is pretty closed to a bisected earth rune, but not quie...
--Greg
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Benedict Adamson < yahoo_at_vrLVr0dxBMrncMLb_Gu2fnNj2vlPGlx1RzGzuOFWwDyEqiC1g28mlzscAvwRpRURt_6Z06jcG5T14TkRQBVGNZNVjg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> Peter Metcalfe wrote:
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> > Oria's rune is given as an upside down triangle with a vertical line
> > through it in the only reference I can find. For the sky, that's the
> > Moon Rune and I don't have an example of a vertically bisected earth
> > rune _in_ Peloria.
> ...
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> I hadn't noticed the vertical line as moon connection. Lesilla would be
> the relevant phase.
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> Oria's rune is a pubic triangle; she is the mother that gives birth to
> everything. I'd say her rune is related to the Fertility rune, which
> consists of two triangles.
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