In Storm tribe, Elmal's Shining Hall sets at the top of the Invisible Mountain while in the Underworld. Maybe when Elmal was dying over Kero Fin, the World was also dying, and there was no difference between Orlanthsland and Humakt's Realm.
I don't think Elmal rides over the Golden Chariot as Yelm in the POV of modern Heortling. I don't know how people of World Council of Friends explained this apparent contradiction.
BTW, I don't know why Gloranthans began to count the days of the week by Elements (plus Wild and God Day.) In RW, Babylonian astrologers started with seven planets of their divine cosmology, IIRC. concept of week is not relevant for rural people....aside from the Importance of Month and Year.
But I can't find when and why this custom started in North Europe, though some says the names of calendar was induced by Christians. But it doesn't explain why the days named after the pagan gods. (Wotan, Thor, Freya, etc....) Others say there is no concept of week before Christianity in northern Europe.
History sometimes makes something strange....
TI
> Sure, Storm Tribe says that Orlanth threw him the torch at the
> dawning, but I suspect that the Elmali know that was purely
symbolic,
> Elmal would have been back at dawn again anyway, as he had each
time
> before. The torch strengthened him, of course. (Further I suspect
> that some Elmali know that Elmal created the path up out of the
> underworld that Orlanth and the other gods later tread....I suspect
> there are some little known/lost Elmal sub-cults, one of which
deals
> with the underworld travel in a limited way. Being of little use
to
> most people, and given the limited number of Elmal worshippers, it
is
> no wonder that it has been lost....but what is lost can always be
> found again by intrepid heroes!)
>
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