>Of course the Yelm Worshippers of Dara Happa were not going to include in
their
histories the stories of their God's defeat in their histories!
But they do. He was slain by RT. So do the Orlanthi - Orlanth was defeated by chaos.
> I'm not that familiar with tha Glorious Reascent of Yelm (Gotta buy that
stuff from Wizard's Attic ;)
Therein lies the difficulty of this discussion. You haven't read half of the material being discussed. More importantly, you haven't read ANY other viewpoints than the Orlanthi/Manirian. (Not that I blame you - they are not easy to get. Keep trying! Better yet - come to Glorantha Con in Victoria and buy them there!)
>I'm confused by this. How can Orlanth be 'well disposed' to the Red Goddess
for doing one thing, and still be at odds for her actions in
another case?
Pelorians do it all the time. Orlanthi do it all the time. Heck - everybody does. Look at the average American's love-hate relationship with the policies of their government.
>But Molanni and Entekos are Solar Air deities... Deities who have been
subsumed and tamed by Solar Power (and later, Lunar Power.)
Nope. They are PELORIAN air dieties. There are no elemental pantheons - - only cultural ones.
>Remember, in all the cases I know of, Moon is the *aggressor* against Storm.
If you read the GRoY, Fortunate Sucession and the Entekosiad, you will find many cases of the opposite.
> it seems to me the reason why debate on this topic is so feirce here on the
Digest is because none
of us want our favorite Pantheons, and their views of Gloranthan
Reality, to be 'false'.
Or, rather, that some of us insist that very little in Glorantha is objectively true or false. I don't want to limit my POV to any one culture. Whenever anyone asks "why isn't the Sartarite viewpoint the complete TRUTH?", I feel compelled to counter with the Pelorian POV, because it's really the only other one I know.
There! I admitted it! I don't do the West or Kralorela. Well, except to slaughter those evil Naskori, sorcerous demons that they are!
Pam (wearing her "Konall Mooseboy" hat)
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