Joerg takes an extreme skeptical stance to my mentions of day and night in Orlanthi and other myths, to the extent that he downplays them as figures of speech. That's the wrong way to look at them. When the worshippers voyages into the mythic ages, they will see days and nights, which will be like their mundane days and nights. Therefore days and nights existed in mythical times.
Likewise Joerg downplays references to mythical references to Yelm's movement when he is supposed to be the immobile centre of the cosmos. If the myth say that Yelm was at Ersorianen making the first people (when he was Emperor) then he was there outside the Throne Room. Any contradiction between this and another myth that says Yelm never moved from his Throne Room because he was the Perfect Emperor is an inconsistency. Resolving the inconsistency will have many solutions but the simple denial of a myth on the grounds that it should be understood as a poetical license is the wrong answer.
--Peter Metcalfe
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