Re: [from Glorantha_VF] Who is Humakt's mother?

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From: Ian Cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:33:28 -0000

Bryan wrote:
> This came up recently on the french language glorantha yahoo
group. The question was in general who were the mother's of Umath's children other than Orlanth? The poster was wonder specifically about Humakt.

Ah well the family tree in King Of Sartar (p.63) just says 'others' :-o

Orlanth's initiation myth refers to the gods who throw Orlanth and his brothers into the pits both as the giants (King of Sartar, p.64) and the 'uncles'(Thunder Rebels, p.142). King of Sartar names some of the uncles as Genert, Kalt, Magasta, and Dehore (but there are others who are forgotten now). Be inference some of the uncles should be related to the 'other' mothers (presuming Umath was an only child). My money would be on one of Genert's sisters mothering Urox. With the others I can make cases for a number of associations, but I feel a certain fondness for an idea that a sister of Kalt, the god of renewal, might have given birth to Humakt, the god of endings. YGMV.