RE:

From: Dennis Hoover <DennisHoover_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 19:54:13 -0500


Stephen Lucek asks:

>Has any one noticed the similarity of the names of the cities of Bronze =
Age [...]
>and the Dara-Happans?
>[...] Is it all just a coincidence?

One of the sources for Dara Happa was certainly the bronze-age Indus = River civilization, and a few of the names show the influence (e.g. = Mohenjar, the "foreman", son of Lodril). However, Dara Happa is also = taken from later Indian history (i.e. after the light-skinned Aryan = invaders that caused so much trouble in our century) as well as from the = Assyrians. Throw in a pinch of the Aztecs and Chaldeans and a couple = ladles of original Staffordisms, and you have Murharzarm's Dara Happa = (as in _The_Glorious_Reascent_of_Yelm_). There are also many other = threads of influence in the region (as in _The_Entekosiad_), many of = which lead to the Red Goddess rather than the extreme male-dominated = solar culture of the Dara Happan Tripolis.

I think Dara Happa fits Stephen's comment about how Stafford "seems to = pinch bits from just about everywhere and then ties it all up into a = coherent whole".

Dennis Hoover
dennishoover_at_mindspring.com


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