and responded:
> Aye--but in CoP, there's nothing to imply that hyena skins *in particular* > might be parts of Genert. A merchant finds a hyena-skin scroll, and it turns > out to be Genertish--but as presented, the fact that it's a hyena skin is > entirely incidental. (In the narrative, the item could just as easily have > been a wooden spear or a silver necklace or a stone cup. It's just presented > as "This random thingy turned out to be a piece of Genert.")
Not just skin, but any part, according to Sandy in the Daily:
> Bob Luckin: >>I don't recall ever seeing/hearing the reason that Genert could be >>reconstructed from hyena skins.
http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/ndaily/1994.08/5527.html#5540qlink1
Sandy Petersen:
> In NOMAD GODS, it is explained that Hyena (the spirit entity) was
> called upon by Genert to eat his corpse so it wouldn't fall into the
> hands of Chaos.
>
> In CULTS OF PRAX, members of a certain Issaries subcult are required
> to take pieces of Genert to him in order to repair him.
>
> Basically, any hyena, by virtue of its descent, has a tiny little
> piece of dead Genert in him. Some hyenas or pieces of hyenas have more
> than others. The example used in CoP was a rune-carved bit of hyena
> skin, but hyena entrails, tails, etc. are also usable. The cult
> requirement to deliver bits of Genert to him is variable in its urgency
> depending on how magic the bit of Genert encountered is. Most priests
> wouldn't become a Desert Tracker just because they saw a hyena (but some
> might).
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