> I think the syllables themselves
> are ideograms. Take for example the mountains in the map of
> Wendaria (p8) and compare to the "Father of Mountains" essay on p44.
> The basic form is a triangle meaning a mountain. A triangle with
> a dot inside it represents Turos (or Mount Gestinus in a geographical
> context). Thus when writing the syllable(s) Turos, the Pelandan
> draws a triangle with a dot inside it.
>
> If he draws a triangle with a flat line underneath it, then people
> would interpret that as Ora (or Mount Jernalf). Likewise for
> the other two mountain sons. The real problem here is that the
> primal fire mountain which has all five compenents is written
> with three syllables (ViSaurDaran) instead of one. Hence it appears
> that the god ViSaurDaran and the Mountain were not one and the
> same.
I figured those were runes, not orthography. Just as almost every sky deity in Dara Happa has a rune based on the circle, so the Pelandan mountain gods have runes based on the triangle.
David Dunham <mailto:dunham_at_pensee.com> Glorantha/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html> Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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