Re: the idea of working for your deceased ancestors to be released from
slavery:
It's a possibility in some places in Glorantha, I suppose. But I don't
think it would be the case in Dara Happa, for several reasons.
- Yelmites (who are almost never slaves, unless temporaily due to
prisoner-of-war status) believe that the dead split apart, their souls
going up to heavem while their Bijif parts go to hell and hang out all
dusty like. There is no status associated with the Bijiif part, until it
is reborn.
- Alkothites put all their dead in enclosures, along w/ gifts for the god.
But all thees items are mixed up, for the dead have no status. All are
equal in the underworld. This is in the Alkoth part of GROY.
- We know little of Lodrilli concepts of afterlife, except for a GROY
quote from Ovosto (a Lodrilli leader) to Murharzarm's son (the current
emperor) - "You're father's soul is in MY grandfather's kingdom." That
doesn't seem to imply that Lodrilli worry much about their status in the
underworld.
Death seems to be the Great Equivicator in Dara Happan theology.
All IMHO -
Pam
PS - Peter - great synopsis of Lunars vs traditional cultures in the empire.