Re: Opposing runes and the circle of elements - Lodril

From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_L_GP8WSc7E0r7829bGL3dkHuKFyzJy3MlPZUItWzYSIk3SUNRG-hcsQsUazkPIy-EHE6>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:46:02 -0000

> Admittedly, each of them is useful in farming and peasant life, as you say. However, I'm more interested in arguing that Lodril has associtions with Fire, not that he has no peasant/farming assoictaions. Every single one of those (save "Suppress Lodril") is related to fire and heat as well as Earth.

Guy, have you read Glorious Reascent of Yelm? Please start there! If you want to make a convincing argument that Lodril is really a Fire/Sky god you will have to overcome things like this:

"Lodril
The Lord, broad and strong master of labor, wide God of the Earth and Below. His hard mountain fir staff, the perfect handle to attack to the Honorable One's tools, the Beloved, the Clay God. Lodril is called the God of Peasants, the Worker, the Earthly One, and many other names."

GRoY page 57

Jeff