>Me>Well, the question is pretty much open-ended. The
> >fourty-eighting parts that Roderick spoke of was when
> >Orlanth was cut to pieces by Wakboth (KoS p79)
> >which doesn't quite feel like a mystical enlightening
> >moment to me.
>I suppose that's just the difference between a
>positive/creative and a negative/destructive
>engagement with The Ultimate. Nietzche again -
>"That which does not kill me makes me stronger"
>(ok so maybe Orlanth died, but he got better).
Here's the relevant text:
But when Orlanth sought to destroy it,
Wakboth parried, with a simple stab he
cut Orlanth into forty-eight pieces. Any
lesser god would have gone into all forty-
nine pieces. But as it was, Orlanth was
barely able to blow out of there.
That said, I can see how this might prevent Orlanth from being Sevened even if it isn't a mystical awareness moment. The Rashoranic path requires the quester to be completely stripped of everything but here we see Orlanth at a similar moment and he fails to be completely broken down.
>As for sevening versus fourty-eighting, I think gods
>have more parts than mortals.
Yelm and Sedenya both have seven parts while Orlanthi Gods have 49, I think the 49 portions is really a different creation myth rather than numerical superiority.
--Peter Metcalfe
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