> > I think for me the weirdness is that Death seems to be a
> single god.
> > It's just Humakt everywhere, and according to Peter, Humakt without
> > the truth rune is Gloranthically impossible.
> >
> > But this seems weird to me. There are NO other mythological
> representations of >Death?
>
> I think this is a case of one of those rare, weird
> "objective" facts of Glorantha; some time during the Gods War
> SOMEONE, one particular someone, discovered and used Death
> for the First Time. That one entity is therefore responsible
> for ALL DEATH, even if some other entity stole Death and was
> the direct bringer of the first death to a Culture.
Isn't there some fairly basic bit of Humakti mythology where, after Death had been stolen from him and used all over, he went round collecting all the bits and putting it back together again? (Possibly learning some important lessons on the way?)
In the beginning, there was one owner of Death. And after a brief and unfortunate hiatus*, there was still only one owner of Death, because Humakt made very sure of it!
Though, diving even deeper into Complication, I start to wonder if Death is not merely a special case of Separation. And Separation came earlier - it was what ended the Green Age, wasn't it? Almost by definition?
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