>Consider the following Official Sentence, of which one S. Petersen
>is the legal co-author:
>
>"Goats are considered unclean, and never eaten, nor rarely tolerated."
So Sandy Sandied himself. Big deal. Greg can Greg himself.
From my vantage here in the city, sheep and goats are more or less synonymous (as compared to cows). However, sheep are sacred to Heler. This makes goats of lesser quality, unclean or not.
And Basmati rice isn't particularly yellow; there's probably added turmeric or saffron.
Which reminds me, I don't think I saw my own post, so I'll (possibly) repeat it here.
Mike O'Brien suggests
>just like elephants in some parts of SE Asia, gazzam in the wild
>might be all but extinct.
which seems very likely. I suspect gazzam are very expensive to keep (think of all the railroad ties you have to feed them, to say nothing of building a barn they can't break out of when in heat), and only the nobility and a few priest(ess)hoods can afford them. Such a valuable beast is likely to be used for ceremonial purposes instead of work, just like you don't use your Rolls Royce as a taxi. Perhaps they are used to plow, but only sacred fields. There, does that make both sides happy?
Joerg suggests
>Dara Happan rice: This could (and should) be different from Kralori
>and Vor(u)maini rice, IMO. Maybe golden of colour, to celebrate the sky?
I agree; there are all sorts of rice out there (short, long, Basmati). We occasionally cook a Thai purple rice -- I don't know if it's naturally purple or dyed, but a little bit will turn the whole pot of rice a pale purple.
For some reason, I decided to list all the deities known to the East Ralians, with their runes. There are a lot of gods I couldn't find the runes for. I've decided to provisionally assign them the following:
Barntar: Plant, Earth
Daga: Air, Stasis, Death
Eurmal: Illusion, Disorder, Illusion (since he owns Illusion)
Flesh Man: Man
Gustbran: Heat, Stasis
Heler: Water, Fertility
Humath: Death, Truth, Air
Inora: Cold, Mastery
Kolat: Air, Spirit
Mahome: Heat, Harmony
Minlinster: Plant, Change
Ralia: Fertility, Earth, Beast, Mastery
Vinga: Air, Motion
Voriof: Beast, Harmony
Wakboth: Chaos, ???
Yinkin: Beast, Truth (since he was Orlanth's secret perception)
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