Don't upbraid people too strongly for being 'good Orlanthi'. ;-) I think the Olranthi views are largely "correct" in cosmological terms, though as Simon and I have suggested, the particular 'spin' they but on it is all very culturally subject to (hot) dispute.
> Alex writes:
>
> "whereas Umath comes from pretty much the 'usual method', having
> two 'parents' within creation."
> I used to read it that way, but have also read stories where he was born,
> and, after being born, created the air for himself.
I think the normal interpretation of that it that he's creating the "space" for the 'air' -- i.e., he tears Sky and Earth apart, in which he and his children can live. (This is a very common theme of RW myth, esp. for people on the 'recieving end' -- solar cultures bitching about what a bummer this sort of thing is, that sort of thing.)
> Sounds like a good thing for Gloranthan theologans to debate for
> centuries and kill each other over. :-)
Indeed. Welcome to Lunar Tarsh, citizen... (I was tempted to say "Comrade Citizen" in memoria mori of the Great Red Star Bear conception of the Empire, but...)
Cheers,
Alex.
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