>Actually, this all brings up something I'm curious about. There seems
>to be in Central Generetela an Earth Pantheon, a Storm Pantheon, and a
>Sky/Sun Pantheon. There also appears to be some amount of overlap. So
>are these in some way a super pantheon (after all, both the Yelm
>worshippers and the Orlanth worshippers agree that Yelm is the sun and
>Orlanth is the air and that the latter killed the former) that is
>interpreted differently depending on the myths of the culture, or are
>they very separate?
Originally they were separate. Now as a result of 1500 years of communication,
there are common elements. For example, everybody agrees that Orlanth killed
Yelm (originally it was Orlanth killed the Evil Emperor and Rebellus
Terminatus
caused Yelm to disintegrate). At the same time, there are massive religious
differences that are fundamentally irreconcilable (the Orlanthi believe Yelm
recognized him as the King of the Gods while the Dara Happans believe that
Orlanth submitted to Yelm's Rightful Rule).
> Does the Earth Mother of one get acknowledged as the same entity as
>the earth mother of another (even if in the Earth Pantheon she is
>ruler of all the gods and in the Solar pantheon she is not?) or what?
Ernalda is the head of the Earth Pantheon in Esrolia and she is also the wife of Orlanth in the Storm Pantheon. The Storm Worshippers recognize Orlanth is Ernalda's main husband while the Earth worshippers recognize Orlanth as merely one of Ernalda's many husbands. However in Dara Happa, the Earth Mother is Oria (who may or may not be the same as Ernalda - nothing has been published on this topic). So again the answer is that there are common elements between the Pantheons but also irreconcilable differences.
--Peter Metcalfe
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