See the quote from "The Other" you produce below. It identifies Death as Rebellus Terminus/Erlandus.
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>> Terminatus is
>>also identified as Rebellus Terminus and Erlandus (both of which
>>appear on the God's Wall)
>
>They don't. They are identified by Plentonius as being on the
>God's Wall. His particular identifications are forced and wrong.
>Rebellus Terminus (actually given as a title to Umatum) is
>actually VogMaradan, the first male, a entity in Ulerian myth
>that has nothing to do with death.
Possibly, but why would Plentonius make that identification without some supporting tradition ?
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>>and both are identified with Orlanth, not Humakt
>
>You've confused between the wielder of the weapon and
>the weapon itself again. Orlanth appears as the Thunderer,
>Lanatum and Rebellus Terminus. Humakt appears as
>the weapon Terminatus.
See above comment. Also remember that even Humakti make a distinction between the power of Death and Humakt (even if at other times they do not). And the second account seems to me to have been influenced by Orlanthi mythology - compare it with the version in "The Other".
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>>(although they appear to be distinct and there is another
>>figure on the God's wall - "Oralanatum" - that might ALSO be
>>identified as Orlanth).
>
>And for what possible reason would Plentonius identify
>Orlanth as one of a pair of midgets? Or was he trying to
>make the chief god of the Orlanthi small?
Quite likely - remember that this figure is explicitly identified as a foreign God and the other of the pair is Walindum - presumably Valind. And Lanatum is named as the Thunderer in "The Other".
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>>I'm not sure where the identification of Terminatus as either the
>>Dara Happan Death God or Humakt came from.
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> THE OTHER
>
> Yet this time courage was not enough, and
> Murharzarm was pierced by Death which took
> his Life. We called him Rebellus Terminus, and
> now we know the Barbarians call him Erlandus.
>
> THE DISINTEGRATION OF YELM
>
> Then the Thunderer struck [Murharzarm] with
> another invisible weapon which he called
> Terminatus. [...] Then Murharzarm fell to the
> ground and he died.
>
So where does Terinatus appear as the Dara Happan God of death ?
-- -- "The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of immortality. More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting minerals in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala Guide to Taoism_ Paul K. ------------------------------
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