Zorak Zoran and Lhankor Mhy

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:08:33 +1200


Joerg Baumgartner:

[On Esrolian Husband Gods]

MS>>and Zorak Zoran

>As likely a consort as Ragnaglar, IMO.

Actually mentioned in the Genertelan Players Book (cf Orlanthi Culture) as a Husband God along with Yelm and Orlanth. I think Argan Argar was actually intended to be mentioned here as I have great difficulty in imagining an emasculated Zorak Zoran.

[Lhankor Mhy in Carmania]

>IO was a Carmanian, wasn't he? From Pelanda, then.

>Neither Carmania nor Dara Happa ever succumbed to the God Learners, right?
>Nor did the Orlanthi stay long enough to install any of their cults there,
>it seems. [...]

>So how comes that IO was a worshipper of LM? Wouldn't he rather have been
>a worshipper of Idovanus, the Pelandan god of wisdom unveiled in the
>Entekosiad?

Idovanus is the Sun God and Creator and totally unlike Lhankor Mhy in Irrippi's time irregardless of what he had been like in the Entekosiad.

My best guess is that since the Dawn the worship of Lhankor Mhy percolated along the Rockwood mountains from Dragon Pass into Brolia.
>From there, the worship of Lhankor Mhy amongst other aspects of Storm
Worship was picked up by the Bull Worshipping Tribes (thus barbarizing them ;-) of Vangstal and Chargg. Later on, these tribes conquered the Carmania and began the reign of the Bull-Shahs. Then the lawspeakers and seers of LM that immigrated with the Bull Shahs became their scribes and sages in the new Carmanian Empire. It is only a short leap from there to Lhankor Mhy being the God of Irrippi Ontor.

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