Re: She Who Waits

From: markmohrfield_at_...
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:23:16 -0000


Me
> >Glorantha :Introduction to the Hero Wars states that the Tarshites
> >regard Ernalda as one of the seven Mothers, the She-Who-Waits.
Does
> >this mean that in Tarsh Ernalda's magics, or perhaps those of a
She-
> >Who-Waits aspect or subcult of Ernalda, are subject to the Lunar
> >cycle?

Greg Stafford
> It's a Lunar trick, actually. "Hey, your goddess' unknown part is
just like
> ours!"
> A band of women have undertaken to prove it, and so far, it has
worked.
> They will appear, I am sure, at the worst crisis of your
Lightbringer's
> Quest.
 

> But for the above and below subjects, I just want to observe that
both are
> very unusual perspectives, and no matter how strongly held any
views or
> truths on them may be, they should not be mistaken to be cultural
norms.
>

I'm a bit confused. Does this mean that such a She-Who-Waits aspect or subcult exists but is very small, or that a group of Lunar Heroquesters are trying to setablish such an aspect/subcult, or that it is simply Lunar propaganda?

                                               Mark Mohrfield 

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