At 07:52 AM 10/11/2001 +1300, you wrote:
>>And the new twist that Orlanth didn't seem to care about making peace
>>till Ernalda disappeared shoots down my former admiration of Orlanth
>>as the wised-up, reformed penitent, taking responsibility for his
>>mistakes.
>
>What else do you think would have caused him to take responsibility
>for his mistakes?
Orlanth has a hundred reasons to go. He did it to right the wrongs, to
recover life, to help Lhankor Mhy get his wife, to explore the Great
Unknown, to release the dead, to end winter and ring the gentle spring
winds, to avenge his dead brother, to release the animals, to rid himself
of guilt, to cleanse the world, to follow the comands of Trickster, to
redeem humanity, to redeem himself, and so on.
YOUR quest is to find the right one for youself (or perhaps to respond to
the one in particular that provokes you.) In any case, undertaking a full
Lightbringer's Quest means you take on all those motivations as well as
your own.
>>A cynic (like me) would say that Orlanth "made peace" with
>>his fingers crossed behind his back just to get his wife back, then
>>promptly returned to the old status of emnity towards Yelm.
>
>But he didn't.
The cosmic and mythical apparatus at work here doesn't indicate (or even
allow) such deceit to exist. That is, in everythingthat I wrote this is not
so either.
Unless, of course, your particular myth is of the story where the entire
universe is based upon the cosmic deceit of the highest gods. Please
understand though that the consequences of such an assumption would quite
alter most of the way people worship the gods.
>>IMO, many of the newer published Orlanthi myths really paint him in a
>>bad light. The myth of how he got Humakt on his side is one
>
>That is a _Humakti_ myth, not an Orlanthi one. Humakti
>cultists have different takes on certain matters than
>Orlanthi.
This is absolutely key.
I have published a lot of myths lately that are slanted from various points
of view. This is of course deliberate on my part, and you need to either
keep this in mind or else track down the origin of the story.
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