Well Shargash can't be Orlanth or Humakt then. More like Ragnaglar.
From a certain point of view. No wonder the Heortlings hate Pelorians if they accept a Wind that destroys souls.
Just stirring it a bit!
Graeme
G:)
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> The Glorantha Digest Tuesday, September 4 2001 Volume 08 : Number
515
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> TABLE OF CONTENTS
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> Svechin_at_cs.com Shargash - death
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> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:38:56 EDT
> From: Svechin_at_cs.com
> Subject: Shargash - death
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> Alex:
> >While Shargash has his own rune, I'd have said that Shargash's
> >primary "core rune" association was clearly Death.
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> Peter:
> >Shargash however is both a Great God and not Humakt. Even
> >his "death" is not separation and division (ST p90) but
> >universal destruction. So I do not believe his core
> >nature corresponds to Death.
>
> I agree. Shargash has dissolution as his primary mystical component. He
> conquered death itself and was aknowledged its superior when he was in the
> underworld because Lovercraftian sense of the word, even Death may die
when
> the universe no longer exists.
>
> Shargash destroys, even souls, which is not the same thing as the
seperation
> of Humakt. This in many ways brings up the interesting possibility of a
link
> to Zorak Zoran rather than the Storm Gods. The strange thing about ZZ is
> that he is not actually a troll and has never been seen as one, and his
> followers in Troll society are considered very odd indeed, apart from the
> mainstream. Where does ZZ come from? His capacity for destruction and
the
> conquest of death seems similar to that of some aspects of Shargash. ZZ
is
> more limited as a deity perhaps. This ties in to the link created by
> Yelmalio at the Hill of Gold. ZZ and Shargash both killed a solar deity
and
> the region is suspiciously close to Alkoth.
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> Martin Laurie
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