er.. browsing through KOS tonight i was struck by part of the
lightbringer myth, when Orlanth reaches Hell and is seeing all the
dead gods: Ernalda is there, dusty and barren; Yinkin is there,
nailed to gibbet or something; and amongst others, Humakt is there,
bent and rusty.
this raises a few questions for me.
- how did Humakt get there? we know that Orlanth buckles on his
sword called Humakt before setting off on the LBQ - so was he carried
in? on the other hand, Humakti myth is that the big H helps Orlanth
head west with a well aimed blow, not that he was carried.
- the implication is that Humakt is dead - he's bent and rusty. who
offed him? come to think of it, are there any myths of Humakt's
great anti-chaos crusades during the darkness?
- if he was dead, then he must have been resurrected along with
eveyone else during the compromise. so where does he get off on
stopping his followers returning from the dead? he doesn't strike me
as being a hypocritical kind of god.
- if flamal was dead, that means that the force of the grower had
left the world. if yelm was dead, it means that the sun and order
had left the world. but Humakt? surely death was the one thing the
world still had going for it? if Humakt was dead, what happened to
death?
surely these are not new ideas, and amongst the Minds who Know, there
is an answer. please.
guy