At 10:19 AM 9/27/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Thanks to Gian, Oliver, Peter, Nick and TI for comments. I've tried to
>synthesise the various points (with a slightly pro-lunar touch to boot).
>Is this satisfactory?
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>After the dragonkill, most of the yelmalions were killed and the cult
>remained active only in the peripheral Sun Dome Temples. The cult lost
>vitality, either because Yelmalio withdrew from the world or because of
>the loss of organisation and the isolation of each temple, or both. The
>temples could not or would not work together anymore. In many temples the
>god came to be worshipped under a plethora of local names, all with the
>title of "yelmalio" or "brightness of Yelm". Some even went back to relics
>of the first age, when Yelmalio was known as Daysenerus.
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>Few of the surviving Sun Dome Temples embraced the growing Lunar Empire.
>Those that did were not strong enough to provide a path for the
>recalcitrant Elmal-worshippers of the south into the embrace of the
>Goddess, as the cult of Doburdun helped the worshippers of the rebel storm
>to find peace with Her.
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>Only with the revelation of Monrogh could the cult of Yelmalio be
>revitalised and grow strong again. Only after Monrogh could the brightness
>of Yelm shine upon the southern barbarians in its full glory. Many of the
>Sun Dome Temples that never lost their Light did not hear or accept
>Monrogh's revelation, claiming that it is not of the One Sun, but a
>bastard of Many Suns.
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