>But Humakt is a special case, because he is the god of Separation.
Humakt's
>sword is actually a barrier (or a frontier, or a passage, or an
edge)
>between the Living World and the World of the Dead, which means that
>Humakt's presence in both places is unusual.
Hmmm... I think I disagree. Humakt is definitely dead, and I can't
think of any sense in which he can be said to be alive. he's barred
from
personal participation in the world by the Compromise anyway, so it's
a moot point.
> ...Unlike the other
gods,
>he is in both places all of the time, and doesn't really go through
the
>normal cycle of Life/Death as most other gods do.
There are plenty of other gods of hell - most troll gods for example - that in much the same possition as Humakt in this respect.
>I don't think so. I think that he is both dead and living at the
same
>time. He certainly wasn't resurrected.
I can't see how that could work. How is that different from "Humakt : God of the Zombies"?
>What he actually did (according to the Sword of Life myths) was
>to kill Death itself, which is that he separated it from the Middle
>world and sent it into Hell
It was already in Hell. Surely it was Trickster who brought Death into the world?
>God world in the form of his Sword, and as the Power to guarantee
>the Cosmic Compromise.This is also why he is the Oath-Keeper god.
Definitely. That's a very theyalan attitude.
> ...Also, if he does have a Great Secret
>(Become One With Death) you would actually have to violate
>your god and all of his oaths and possibly the Compromise
>itself to attain it.
His Great Secret is learned by all mortals in the end - the experience of Death. It is the awful weight of this knowledge that burdens the souls of the dead.
Simon Hibbs
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #487
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