Re: Shargash and Humakt

From: Loren Miller <loren_at_wharton.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:18:46 -0500

Kmnellist_at_aol.com asks:
> This is a question I've been meaning to ask. If Shargash/Orlanth
> are, to some
> extent, the same deity,

Bzzzt. Wrong assumption.

> But Humakt is the
> Carmanian god
> of Death, linked to Yanafal Ta'arnils- surely a Mother wouldn't
> be mistaken.

In Carmania, Humakt is one of the hundred good gods. Shargash is an enemy god, though officially tolerated under lunar law. In Dara Happa, Shargash is the ruler of the underworld and Humakt is an enemy god. Equating them is as silly as equating Patton and Rommel.

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