Re: Horizons & food from Barbara Braun on 1996-02-22 (Glorantha Digest Vol 02)

From: Barbara Braun <zbraun_at_minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:51:37 +1100 (EDT)

G'day all this is Andrew emailing,

Horizons:
Strangers in Prax has a nice section on pg 36 about the horizon on a flat world and how this is basically the "indistinct band where sea and sky become one" due to haze.

Food: This reminds me of a recent visit to the Hills of Imther (after RQ Con DU where I took my visitors raspberry picking):

"The majority were "moon berries"* but we chanced on a small plant of
"sunberries"* that tasted identically delicious as the moon berries yet
were a beautiful golden colour. Asking one of the local farmers it turned out that if a "moon berry" plant grows such that it is sheltered from the moon but still receives sunlight they will in fact grow in their original sunberry form.** Aparently the local myth explains that when Yelmgatha died and the Red Emperor ascended the Footstool alone for the first time all the sunberries in Dara Happa turned red in celebration of the beginning of the Lunar Empire. The plants we were picking from had been transplanted from Dare Happa when Imther was finally made part of the Empire.

When I commented on this novelty to my friend Nickolas back in Raibanth it caused some consternation (As I found out later through another friend in the Cult of the Red Goddess there are apparently some obscure Yelmic legends dating back to the Oslir War that when sunberries return to the fields of Dara Happa the Sun will rule again as in olden times). The rumours that Dara Happan nobles are rushing around their fields erecting shade cloth between some of their moon berry plants and the Red Moon I am sure is just blasphemous nonsense>."

An extract from the personal diary of Andreus Leguminous of the Irripi Ontor temple of Raibanth, (from a copy held in the files of The Spoken Word office in Glamour). The file has a note saying "continue surveillance for any further signs of impure knowledge or thoughts."

The earthly equivalent that we ate in the hills of Tolangi around Melbourne are raspberries and yellow raspberries. I had never seen yellow ones before and they taste identical, although having a greater pectin content that makes them good for jam making.
- sun berries of course date back to the first rising of Yelm when the world was reformed (actually it may have been Antirius but the DH's assume it had to be Yelm that gave the berries the golden colour after the Great Darkness, not merely Antirius, there is no written record on such mere agricultural information and the Lodrilites only use oral records anyway)
  - Apparently this is only a recent phenomenon of the past 20 years, rumours that it actually stems from the beginning of the reign of Argenteus are just that and surely any attempt to link his
    "self-indulgent" rule with a weakening of moon powers on the mundane plane
    is utter foolishness.

Cheers, Andrew

End of Glorantha Digest V2 #398

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