Orlanth the Ram

From: Richard, Jeff <Jeff.Richard_at_METROKC.GOV>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:54:24 -0700

Peter writes:

>>A bull's fertility rather than a ram's or an alynx's.
>Orlanth is not worshipped as a ram or an alynx anywhere
>as yet. The Ram is associated with Heler or Voriof while
>the Alynx is associated with Yinkin. Orlanth in the lands
>of the Talastings looks pretty much like Orlanth in
>Heortland or Lankst.

As David Dunham has observed, there is a Talasting sub-cult of Orlanth the Ram - Hagodereth. For what it is worth, the Talastings initially embraced Orlanth because they identified the ram horns worn by his holy men with Hagodereth.

Jeff

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