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> nodded sagely and said "ah, they worship Elmal, that is what he did.
> They are strange for that, but not evil dara happans" In turn, the
> son of the sun worshippers may not have had a villain in their myths
> that matched up with Orlanth. So their neighbors worshipped storms,
> which was clearly inferior, but really who cares so long as they keep
> their hands off of your sheep?
All well and good, but don't the Alakorings (Orlanthi folk afterall) also worship Orlanth and Ernalda and the rest of the pantheon. There are some differences, but I wouldn't think they would be almost exclusive sun-worshippers (like the Yelmalians are).
But if the material means that there was a lot of Elmal worship among the Alda-Churi (with a different name) then it's no wonder that it has been changed into Yelmalio worship under the Empire. There's precedent's for that, afterall.
-Adept
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