Re: Digest Number 1575

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 23:37:15 +1300


At 09:35 AM 2/6/04 +0100, you wrote:

> > Why I am suggesting that the Praxian Sartarites
> > don't worship Esrola is that in Prax, the bountiful aspect of
> > the earth (Esrola) is dead and that only Eiritha survives.

>I'd rather give Esrola ceremonies a "hostile" modifier.

>The aspect that has died (or at least not reawakened) was some part of the
>Great Earth Spirit worshipped at the Paps.

The land is still dead and the Praxians can't contact any fertile earth spirit. Surely that counts for something in suggesting that the Praxian Sartarites have similar problems?

>The Fourty-Eight Old Ones - the
>agricultural spirits of the Oasis People - still reside at the Paps.

The 48 old ones are the shattered fragments of the Horn of Plenty. Hardly agricultural spirits.

--Peter Metcalfe

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