Voria

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:19:32 +1300


Guy Jobbins:

>just a thought that may be appropriate here: has anyone checked out the
>similarities between voria and persephone? both spring goddesses,
>persephone alse conneted to... wait for it.. sewing.

Voria is not connected to sewing in Ernaldan mythology. That's actually connected with Mahome in fire season when the women spin the wool that has been sheared the previous season.

Andrew Larsen:

Me>>Social functions are not expressed through cults in Orlanthi
>>society, they are expressed through the individual and the
>>clan first and foremost.

>Of course they are. By defining deities according to the classes
>of people they are worshipped by, you're (used impersonally) defining
>social roles.

I didn't say deities, I specifically said _cults_ as in the Runequest sense.

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