Oliver
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From: Philippe Sigaud [mailto:sigaud_at_...]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:21 AM
To: HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Saltwater
En réponse à bernuetz.oliver_at_...:
> Here's a myth I wrote explaining why the seas are salt :
> so water is not naturally salt but mighty Magasta
> changes all liquid that enters His body into salt water.
> The poor pathetic waters that cross the land are too
> weak and forgiving to poison the land so their water
> is not poison to the land and the air.
Quite a beautiful and tragic one. Merfolfs are said to be a pessimistic
people,
now I know why.
If I may have another (little) take at it may also be that
"In the Beginning, the First Drop was Pure and Fresh. But during the
Drowning of
Chaos, so many good watery gods were slain, their blood and tears mingled
with
Ocean and Ocean was full of the blue and divine blood. Did you already taste
your blood, little finned one ? It is salty, and so is the whole Sea now,
and
the Oceans beyond that. That's the sorrow and the pain the Great Wars
provoked,
little one. But Magasta is Lord of Death and Life, and from this death came
vengeance and life for us : now, our seas are so salty that creatures from
the
Dry can't drink it and die. That the vengeance of the Ancestors. Even if
their
souls have disappeared into the great beyond, their blood, their blue blood
is
still all around us. We are swimming in it."
Now that I think of it, tears are salty, but blood is more iron-tasting.
Anyway,
maybe the seas are full of godly tears or the merfolk blood is salty (as
fish
flesh).
Philippe
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