None of those statements had an reference to a GodTime chronos-time, only to chairos-time. These are both Classical and Koine/Biblical Greek terms for the single English word "time", but "chairos" (rhymes with "pyros") is event-based time, as in "at the appropriate time" or "in the fullness of time", compared to chronos (mundane time), such as "in the 2000th year of Yelm's reign" or "two years after that", etc.
Almost all prophecies in the Bible use chairos, rather than chonos, for example. Chairos is also analogous to the PseudoTime of HeroQuesting, or the fact that when Orlanth speaks in the GodTime, the first word of his sentences occurs before the subsequent words (note, there is nothing to prove that the sentence wouldn't occur within a heartbeat, or that the words were not separated by several minutes).
All the examples given were of chairos, rather than chronos. The example of Orlanth following Mastakos' path of two steps, which a man would take 18 days (I think that's the period) *I* think refers to a man of our own, post-Time, period. If it was that "Orlanth took two seconds, where now a man would take two weeks" then that *would* imply Chronos Time in the GodTime "period". At least in the Teller's mind.
> Your hypothesis that the Orlanthi statements have been contaminated
> by an exposure to time to insert timely markers in their mythology
> is unproven and doubtful.
I would say that the examples are, in fact, supportive of the negative.
The problem is with the inability of English to fully distinguish between
different different Time-like ideas, except via circumlocution.
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