>So Orlanthi gods associated with Orlanth are realy all just alieases
>for Orlanth, but different gods of war are completely different guys.
It's not really what I said; if the war gods are all faces of one god, I see no reason why it would be Humakt, as gods Humakt dislikes (Zorak Zoran) will be just as honored as Humakt. Anyway, speculating about the Kingdom of War seems kind of fruitless, since there's not much to prove one theory over another....
>Elmal and Yelmalio are specific aspects of the Sun, not the Sun
>itself. IIRC Elmal is the cool, pale winter sun and Yelmalio is
>the bright sky (the sun dome) or some such.
Is this true for the Heortlings? Storm Tribe seems pretty clear that he is _the_ sun, not just _one_ sun.
>I think Heortling beliefs about ancestry and the importance of
>the bloodline are imporant here. A man's son is the flesh of
>his flesh, and blood of his blood. They are seperate individuals,
>yet also the same substance.
Very nice -- I like this a lot.
me:
>>can't imagine that the Lunars would set out to drive Orlanth from the
>>Middle Air if it couldn't be done.
>
>It can't, and that's why the empire fails. I don't think they realy
>understand what they are dealing with.
I don't like this much. It suggests that the Lunars are doomed from the outset, which doesn't make for great dramatic tension....
Peter Larsen
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