- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Gianfranco Geroldi"
<giangero_at_...> wrote:
>
> --- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "ttrotsky2" <TTrotsky@> wrote:
> > The interesting and useful
> > question, to my mind, is this: if, in our personal Gloranthas, we
want
> > to use a different explanation, what might that be?
> >
> > --
> > Trotsky
> > Gamer and Skeptic
>
> As far as I understand it, the point is that Heortling mythology is
not
> based on two individual great gods, but on the relationship between
> them. Their 'marriage' in human terms.
> If you negate (kill or imprison) Orlanth, you create a widow
Ernalda,
> no more a 'queen ernalda', a 'wife ernalda', a 'mother ernalda'.
Their
> marriage is broken and so the myths of the people who was born
(i.e.
> based upon) that marriage don't work anymore.
>
> Ciao,
> Gian
>
Okay.
I _think_ we're getting a little esoteric for the roleplaying list
when we start discussing Gloranthan theological metaphysics and
marriage counseling.
Jeff