Re: Lodril et al

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From: Joerg Baumgartner <joe_at_toppoint.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:25:41 +0000

Alex Ferguson:

> Jörg Baumgartner:

>> We do have the myth about Lodril wrestling with his opposite
>> number, and integrating it. I think it is hard to pinpoint who he wrestled,
>> but one possibility is that deity Lodril and Great Spirit known in the south
>> as Balumbasta wrestled, and emerged as one entity.

> I 'spose. I rather prefer an explanation "in the style of" the account > of "defiant entities" -- much as a revile the HW rules for same.

What defiant entities do we know?

There's Creation Age Tilntae and Bogglggles, there are the troll and elf underworld strangenesses, and there's Eternal Battle's Urox/Storm Bull. Anything I forgot?

Ah, there's Yinkin, a compliant defiant. I wonder whether his ilk ain't the vast majority.

End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #541