(again) about Teshnos:
> IMO as Teshnos derives it's core truths from Dayzatar, it appears that Yelm's
> Rightful Government in this area was overthrown unlike Dara Happa and Kralo-
> rela.
Might be. I see Teshnos still clinging to a more archaic form of sky worship
centered on Dayzatar prior to his abdication of rule over the sky realm in
favour of his younger brother Yelm and his removal beyond the sky dome (and
thus beyond normal "mundane" reach). Somash in my picture is Yelm the
obedient brother doing the chores his more philosophising brother disdains to
attend to (quite a lot).
The divine order of the sky is, IMHO, an achievement or philosophy of
Dayzatar.
> I just had the brilliant brainwave. In Japan the Sun Goddess is feminine.
> This would mean that Dendara was actually the Sun Cult of the Yellow Elves.
> (deletions)
Well ... (scratch, scratch).
Ok, the easy bit : you mean Somash when you write Solf (=Lodril), obviously.
As for the rest, maybe your brilliant brainwave was caused by a flaring
heatwave <g>?
Seriously: maybe the embyli think that the sun is a female entity, but I
would feel great hesitation to see any connection between Dendara and this
entity. Dendara is a daughter of (Empress) Earth, not an entity of the sky at
all. Aldrya is also definitely a daughter of said Earth, not Dendaras
daughter.
Tricky questions might be :
a) are the grain goddess of a certain area and the land goddess of said area
one and the same being ?
I think Joerg moved some time ago that this question be answered "yes".
b) who is/are the mother/s of the land goddesses ?
Answers might be: Ernalda/in certain areas Dendara; Aldrya; depends on which
land goddess you're talking about; somebody else completely.
Maybe the affiliation of said land goddesses can change by adoption into
another pantheon. Or nobody cares because the land goddess is the _most
important_ personification of earth in a given area (Ralia?).
Or else it's rather unimportant because nobody on this list cares about this
questions anyway <g>.
As for the female sun of the embyli: maybe the gender of a godly entity really only depends on what the worshippers think or expect of IT. (????).
Enough for today. Peter M: Thanks for your interest in my queries and your much appreciated thoughts.
Ralf
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