Fortunately these demi-gods feared Death and fled from the followers of
> Humakt (in their stories they have a Humakti hero who chased off a wailing
> Brithini general like Diomedes chased off Ares).
>
Sheds new light on Arkat. In becoming Humakti, death became his friend. I wonder if Gloranthans attribute to Arkat words akin to those which Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the *Bhagavad Gita* after witnessing the world's first nuclear test: "*Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.*"
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