At 10:09 PM 10/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>> It is a mistake to consider the myths as something static since the
>> Dawn. For instance, until Harmast Barefoot re-assembled a variety of
>> source myths into the Lightbringers Quest, the Lightbringers Quest
>> did not exist.
This is not correct. It did exist because Orlanth and his pals did it. It is more correct to say that the form of the Lightbringer's myth that was subsequently popularized was determined by the actions of Harmast and his crew.
>Are you sure? I thought he just subverts an already subverted myth.
Harmast selected a specific mythical story to follow. He pieced together stories from other gods, but those gods knew their parts of the story already. They all have their own story. The Lightbringer's Myth was one selection, by Harmast, that set a humanly-discernable sequential path.
>> It had not happened during the Gods War. Harmast made
>> it up. Before Harmast's experimental heroquest, there was the
>> Lifebringers' Myth/Quest, where Orlanth brought back Ernalda.
The Lifebringer's Myth is the same story. Lots of times a story has multiple titles for it, usually because it is told from different perspectives.
>Surely the Second Council/Locamayadon make the LightBringers quest.
>After all they wanted to raise the Light (Osentalka/Nysalor/Yelm).
Neat idea. But, they used a different process to reconstruct Nysalor. It was more like the reconstruction of the Solar Man, Murharzarm, that happened in the Underworld.
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