> On 4/24/2013 10:08 PM, jorganos wrote:
>> What is hard to define in the pre-dawn is the concept of >> days - when there was a sun in the sky, it was more or >> less high in the sky, regardless whether it was called >> Antirius, Elmal, or Yelm. It grew weaker and sank lower, >> but it never set (neither in Orlanthi nor in Dara Happan myth).
> The Sun did set in Dara Happan myth.
As the result of Rebellus Terminus slaying Yelm, not marking the end of a day.
> They have the Doom Conjunction recorded on their plates
Yes, there is one such artefact showing the Gods Age descent of Yelm. I doubt that this event has anything to do with a pre-Dawn concept of Day - when the sun set on the first day after the Dawn, the people witnessing this were horrified. Nobody expected that to happen.
> and measured the Solar
> Radius by the distance between the Peak and the Well of Barda
> (Heaven Corrupted article in the Glorious ReAscent).
> Antirius who remained behind was not as bright as Yelm had
> been nor as far reaching.
True. Also not as high as Yelm, and sinking lower and lower until it was just a shining orb above Raibanth. (Much like Elmal dimmed, until he was visible only around Mt Kero Fin.)
>> The Starseers could define a day as the full cycle of the >> rotation of the Heavens.
> They had night time back then.
Do we have any sources for a presence of Night prior to the descent of Yelm?
We know that Yelm had a shadow (where he couldn't look).
> The difference I suppose is that Yelm and other planets went
> behind the Sky instead of into the Underworld.
Do you have a source for Yelm moving from his throne room after becoming Emperor? The most movement I find recorded about Yelm is his court dance in the Orlanth challenge, closely followed by lifting his feet from the Footstool when Sshorga entered Raibanth untamed.
>> There would have been many more prominent celestial bodies >> in both the Golden Age and the Storm Age, with losses incurred >> due to the Chaos invasion of the skies.
> There's only about ten and they've all been restored (to the
> Sky that is, not as was which would be incorrect in the case
> of Umath).
The planets, maybe. But I am speaking about the stellar desert, and about lights that perished from other regions of the sky.
Possibly including Orlanthi star captains.
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