Re: Elf Gods from Roland Volz on 1999-06-12 (Glorantha Digest Vol 06)

From: Roland Volz <roland_volz_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 08:36:20 PDT

In The Glorantha Digest V6 #632, Peter Metcalfe graciously answered me:
>[Snipped] neither Halamalao or Yelmalio is the Mountain Sun. That's Elmal,
>the Sun as worshipped by hillmen.

Hmmm. I think I got confused by the discussion of Monrogh that graced the list a while back. So Halamalao is the Sun God of the elves? Then my question is, how can Aldrya be an associate cult of Yelm? Maybe I still don't understand the geneology enough.

>Babeester Gor is Bebester.
>Arroin (Chalana Arroy's son) is Eron, the Healing Waters.
>Chalana Arroy simply becomes the Hero Chalaneron and is not Eron's mother.
>Zorak Zoran is Zazakzor.
>Arachne Solara is presumably Sanarana.
>'Oakfed' is Harakakara.
>IMO Zazakzor, Eron and Bebeester were the original names and
>were adopted by humans. Chalana Arroy is not elvish but the
>linkage between her and Eron is a historical human synthesis.
I like this idea. Presumably Arroin was added on by the GLs simply because they're both healing gods. I always thought Arroin was mostly superfluous, theogonically speaking. Does this point up to a Water connection for Arroin?

Roland

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