Your interpretation of Utuma is compelling. Unfortunately the commonly
accepted Gloranthan meaning of Utuma is so different that it may be
impossible to reconcile the two. Simply put, Utuma is Transformation through
Self-Sacrifice. As you know, when something kills a dragonnewt it is reborn
from its egg. That is the only way for Dragonnewts to progress to the next
form when they are ready. Utuma is a way to utilize the powers of rebirth,
draconic progression, and transformation to make vast changes in the world,
probably through some kind of correspondence with the macrocosm and
microcosm, et al. By the time a Dragon progresses through the stages of
dragonnewt life it has been killed and reborn hundreds or thousands of
times, and and may well have sacrificed its own life through utuma several
dozen times to effect various changes in the world around it.
Cheers!
Loren
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