Jerontia/Jerontius: Balance, Moon, Harmony

From: Benedict Adamson <yahoo_at_5U9QLoZyT1cWP0je_0EAs8lw2l8uYvbSOn8l60f5RIXLXf-1G9RRZG3GZYns-FRjmEWYrx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:39:49 +0100


What rune or runes does Jerontia/Jerontius have? We have three possibilities.
  1. Balance, equated with Moon
  2. Balance, distinct from Moon
  3. Harmony

THE GLORIOUS REASCEMT OF YELM
pg 10: "Verithurusa... she was too fickle." footnote: "This goddess does not appear elsewhere..."

pg 13: "Mernita, the City which Turns, in the far north. It wasd the home of Jernedeus", footnote "Jernedeus... may be the same as Verithurusus, I-9"

pg 25: "Mernita... blessed by Jernedeus, nurtured by Lesilla..."

pg 68: Verithurus is "Overseer of Mernita... also called the Master of Wisdom..."

pg 88: when Umatum [Umath] comes, "Jernedeus... ignores his own progress and crashes off the east end of the world."

pg 91: Jernedeus is called "the Moon God" and shares a rune with "Verithurusa, Moon Goddess"

If Jernedeus is the Dara Happan form of Jerontius, those reference support option 1. "Master of Wisdom" is a suitable title for Jerontius.   Verithurusa/Verithurusus mirrors Jerontia/Jerontius. Perhaps Verithurusa does not appear elsewhere because it was just a sex changed Verithurusus.

However, the Dara Happans will interpret everything in celestial terms, so this evidence could also be taken to support option 2.

THE FORTUNATE SUCCESSION
pg 54: "Torang... blessed by Jernedeus, and nurtured by Lesilla..."

No more than a repetition of the GRoY Mernita material.

ENTEKOSIAD
pg 44 "[Jerontia] sang the song that Tareltara had sung to make the world."

pg 44--45: Jerontia is the "mother" of Dendara, Oria and Gorgorma.

pg 53: "His particular viewpoint was that no deity could always win or lose, and so he sought to maintain cosmic justice through balance. This harmony..."

pg 54: "Jerontius was not attracted to [the war], and he maintained his desire for balance. He provided no combat.. Jerontius provided them with refuge and counsel... with whom he could work in harmony. Upon the peak the gods [met] in calm meditation."

pg 56: "The Jerontian Way. "All is Change, All is Balance."

pg 92: Jerontius sends Naveria of her journey that ends with Naveria summoning "the Balancer, who came in her costume" and killed the Red King.            

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