Orlanthi impeachment procedures

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From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:52:12 -0700

Benedict Adamson <yahoo_at_...> wrote:
>
> My guess is that the mythic
> identification would also protect the Chief slayer from kin strife
> (Yelm was Orlanth's grandfather).

Not sure about that. Orlanth's killing of Yelm, while good and necessary, also began the destruction of the world--which is why Orlanth went to Hell, reconciled with Yelm, and brought him back to the sky. So arguably the killing-of-Yelm was kinstrife, with the curse of kinstrife, even though it was good and necessary. (That's very mythic right there--cf. Odin's treacherous chaining of Fenris.)