Catching up with Death

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:00:44 -0400


On 11 Apr 2005 at 4:00, Topi Pitk?nen <topi.pitkanen_at_helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Well my view to the things is that Humakt is - in the end - Death.
> But it isn't really the heortling Humakt, more like the Great God
> of Death if you wish to call it so. But I still call him Humakt.

> And I think Glorantha gives us resons to.

Which reasons? The number of other Death Gods out there seems to have put paid to
this notion.

> I've imagined the Rinliddi Death Bat Goddes being called Artia,
> and the assasin of Murhazarm, and a daughter of Verithurusa (?),
> and she sounds petty in comparison...
> (since IIRC she is far better renown simply as The Crimson Bat)

The idea that the Crimson Bat is actually just a shadow of this Death Bat is pretty
frightening. :)


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