>While we're being radical, let me air an idea here that I've mentioned
>on the Swords list (us, twitter about Humakti philosophy?)
>
>There is a myth or two about how Humakt loses or deliberately cuts off
>various bits of himself so as to make himself more "pure". His
>fertility, his emotions, any tendency to cowardice, all colours except
>black, etc, etc. He held on to things like courage, self-control, never
>deceiving yourself, and so on. What happened to the discarded bits? My
>theory is that they gathered together to form another (also incomplete)
>being. Humakt's Other. Trickster. So when we say that Trickster stole
>Death, yes, he did. Well, his original parts did. Only they were part of
>Humath at the time...
>
>Yes, it's another of those perhaps overly-radical ideas. But as far as I
>can see, Humakt and Trickster are *exact* opposites in every possible
>way. And that can't be coincidence.
I've always thought of Chalana Arroy as the opposite of Humakt. I can see Trickster being made up of all the bits of other gods he managed to nick though.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/ ------------------------------
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