Vinga, Orlanth, Air

From: Jane Williams <jane_at_williams.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:00:49 +0100


I am NOT going to get into the allied/sub-/associate argument, since as far as I can see these are all the same thing.

Two little points of Dave Dunham's to pick up first.
> given that she's a pretty minor goddess and can't really support a full cult
Pardon? 15% of women choose the warrior path, or thereabouts. And of course not all of them will choose Vinga, there are other options. (Insane ones, but they exist). That gives us about 5% or so of the population worshipping Vinga, and other women going for casual/"lay" membership when it suits them. Sounds about the same as CA to me: can't support a full cult???

>where's there a Vinga Great Temple, or even a Temple?
I don't believe this. Dave, this is a fictional world, right? Into which Vinga has been introduced comparatively recently. You tell me where the Vingan temples are in your Glorantha - it's up to you to put them there! If you want a temple or two that have been published and available (though only web so far) for the last few years, take a look at my site. Tarthcaer is about as Major as you're ever likely to get. Or if you don't like them, make up your own. Just don't try to tell me that anything not yet documented therefore doesn't exist!

Alex says:
> (the Red Hair Lodge sounds jolly-gosh like a Temple to me
Sorry. The original version probably was, but these days the Red Haired Lodge is where Vingans expect to go when they die. (They've got their own bit of the Afterlife, separate from Orlanth's Hall. Not a full cult??)

I won't quote Keith Nellist's comments, just say that they sounded reasonable to me. Personally I think there are too many women around with Air powers to assign HQs to all of them, but the "associate of Orlanth" would cover quite a lot.

Chris Bell had some good bits from really ancient sources:
> membership is open to "Any who hold breath in their lungs", as according
to Cults of Prax,
Hmmm. Sure that was OA, not OT? The Air connection sounds more Thunderous to me. It seems to have been dropped from the RoC writeup for some reason.

> Ruric's female companion from the rules excerpts of RQ2 eventually becomes a
> Wind Voice of Orlanth (presumably of the Adventurous subcult.)
I know I don't understand RQ2 terminology, but surely a Wind Voice is a Storm Voice? Thunderous?

> A female Orlanth Priestess, who is not named, is also mentioned in "Calling the
> Spirit of the Wind" in the Travels of Biturian Varosh, when an Orlanth worship
> service is held at the Pairing Stone.

I'll have to see if that's on the Glorantha web site, but again she sounds Thunderous rather than Adventurous to me. All sounds like good stuff!

> For those that don't share that view, Kolat may also be be avilable for
> those of Shamanic bent. I actually like the idea of Orlanthi
> Storm-Witches, who worship the Great Lord of Storms in small groups and
> his brother, the father of sylphs,dancing around fires smeared with woad.
Yes! Love it! I'm *really* not convinced there are enough of them to form a Cult, but there doesn't need to be. Just a coven....

Jane Williams jane_at_williams.nildram.co.uk http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~janewill/gloranth/


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