> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:51:02 -0700
> From: plarsen_at_mail.utexas.edu (Peter Larsen)
> Subject: Elmal
>
> In a related point, was the Emperor the sun before the 1st Council?
> Did Orlanth kill the sun in early myth, or did he kill the Emperor which
> resulted in the sun going out? How close are the pre-fusion Heortling and
> Pelorian myths? I realize that I could do a bunch of reading and find out
> for myself; I was wondering if anyone had information/opinions on this.
Yelm is the Emperor of the Universe but his son, Murharzelm, was the Emperor of the Middle World.
According to the Pelorians, Yelm was never killed. Rebellus Terminus slew Murharzelm, the son of the Sun. Yelm had a kind of nervous breakdown as a result and went to pieces, literally. The DH think that Yelmalio and Elmal are just perverted cults of various Emperors (specifically Vayonet (sp?) the guy who came after Manalarvus the Roofer). They don't even begin to understand the true mythos and nobility of Yelm.
It was after the 1st Council (IMO) that many people began to equate RT = Orlanth. But the DH still say that RT killed Murharzelm and not Yelm.
And don't forget that the Alkothi _know_ that Rebellus Terminus is one of the secret names of Shargash the Destroyer. Orlanthus is just one of the many meowing welps of Umatus and everybody knows that Shargash slew Umatus.
Wesley
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #20
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