> And did not the First Council try to change the myths when it created Osentalka?
Maybe not. See my thought below.
> We know that the sun stopped in the sky the moment he was born,
That much is true, but . . .
> i.e. the Great Compromise was temporarily suspended to allow the Bright One to enter Gloranthan reality.
That part might not be.
> Isn't this to be considered a change in the myth?
There is a primal myth about the original birth of the sun. Maybe they replayed that. Darkness came from nothing; Water came from Darkness; Earth came from Water; Sky came from Earth; the Sun was part of the Sky. If it has an origin, it can have a story. So maybe they just enlisted a story to re-create the birth of the Sun.
More interestingly, maybe they didn't know that's what they were doing, and it conflicted inherently with the part of the Compromise that says the Sun has to replay all of its life each day.
Chris Lemens
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