>¾In the terror and confusion of the Great Darkness, a group of Vingkotlings
>became separated from their kin and their gods. Harried by the Predark, they
>were pushed away from their old lands and found themselves in Ralios.
In my opinion, the Ralians do know and teach their origins. Or at the very least, they know they aren't Vingkotlings. (Distant kin of Orlanth, perhaps.)
They must have their own myths of surviving the Darkness, and these may well involve reverting to their animal nature, the sacrifices of their ancestress Bemura, etc.
It's been a while since I've worked on East Ralios, but they did worship (at least in spirit form) two of Orlanth's brothers (Humath and Bemurok as they call them today). I don't see why they'd forget this fact either.
>No Elmal or Yelmalio or anything of the sort among East Wilds Orlanthi.
I disagree. Anyone who farms is going to want to be able to sacrifice to a sun god, and that's Elmal. And among the Orlanthi, their horse god is Elmal.
There's also a Sun Dome Temple not far, though this may actually be still nearly a Tharkantus temple.
Joerg
>There are former Bemuri who now are cattle-herding Orlanthi in Keanos.
True, but most former Bemuri are Delalans.
Peter Metcalfe added
>It's far more probable that their worship of Bemur was transferred
>to Urox/Storm Bull rather than Orlanth.
This is my belief. (I haven't thought about it in detail, but having seen how subcults work in Thunder Rebels, no doubt it was by adding a subcult or two to Urox.)
David Fiorito
>I'm hoping some sociologist or anthropologist among us
>will say "Ah, well,that's just because they use an
>endothermihypothalmic kinship structure in
>which sons are supposed to take their father places."
What more could they say?
David Dunham dunham_at_pensee.com
Glorantha/HW/RQ page: http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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