Re: Ride the chariot

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:24:46 +1300


Andrew Solovay writes:

[From the Herowars list]

>> Yes, Dara Happa.  There used to be a several pages about chariots
>> in Dara Happa but it's been replaced by a concise guide and another
>> page about Khorzanelm which I haven't seen before.

> Veddy interesting! If so, wouldn't it have to be a post-Darkness
> development? In the stagnant^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Golden Age, as
> Yelmites understand it, the Sun was motionless at the zenith--a
> chariot would hardly be appropriate for that.

The chariot mythology predates the Great Darkness. The argument about Yelm being motionless does not hold water for the Yelmites also believe that Yelm had a human form on earth (or as close to it as possible without polluting himself) back then.

 --Peter Metcalfe

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