Me>> For example, they would recognize three sylph-type spirits that can
>> be called from Umatum, Shargash and Dendara.
>Er, when did Dendara become a goddess of the Air? All published
>sources I've looked at say she's an Earth goddess, although clearly
>the Pelorians would not use this terminology.
And all the sources you looked at (Gods of Glorantha, Runequest Book 5 etc) have been gregged. However I did slip up slightly and should have said Entekos instead of Dendara. The source is the introduction to the Entekosiad.
'Entekos, the Pelandan goddess of airs, has always been a
major deity in Pelanda, but was once a relatively minor
cult figure for the Dara Happans.
In Pelanda, Entekos is the Atmospheric Goddess, the High
Goddess of Virtue, and the planet Dendara. In Dara Happa,
Entekos is a minor goddess, the house-servant of Yelm;
while Dendara is the Emperor's wife, the planet, and
almost nothing more.
[snip some Gods Wall discussion]
Thus Entekos and Dendara seem to be, or have been,
connected somehow with each other.
The earliest Pelandan mentions of Entekos seems to use
Dendara, meaning, as a title, "the Virtuous." Sometimes
it is as if Entekos, which in Dara Happan is the Goddess
of Right Air, is a title. Thus, it appears that one
Pelandan Goddess became two when the cult moved to Dara
Happa; or else two Dara Happan goddesses merged when the
cult moved to Pelanda; or else an original goddess divided
or was divided into parts in Dara Happa.'
Entekosiad Foreword
This gregging leaves untouched the nature of the Kralori Dendara so she may still be an earth goddess there. But I think her cult is more of a duality with the Kralori Gorgorma than is depicted in the old sources.
>Also, would there really be Umatum worshippers in Peloria?
No there wouldn't. The Pelorians do however have a strong tradition of summoning demons and that was where I believe the Yelm priests would get Umatum sylphs from.
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