David Dunham:
>Further evidence for Shargash as the god of Slash & Burn Agriculture: he
>(or at least the same planet) is worshipped in Trowjang, which has at best
>slash & burn cultivation.
- I don't think the Amazons practice swidden agriculture. They appear
to survive on the lifestyle of hunter/gatherers, fishing, cannibalism
and raiding.
- Shargash/Tolat is not a fire god any more than the Red Moon,
Uleria/Mastakos or Entekos/Moskalf. Thus I don't see why fire
should be particularly associated with him.
- I see little reason to assume that merely because they worship
the same god, two seperate cultures with no knowledge of each
other should have the same technology. Technology in glorantha
tends to be invented by heroes and dwarves rather than being divinely
transmitted from above.