> >>I was wondering about this. Is Dendara part of the earth tribe
> >>anymore?
> >
> >No.
>So GoG and Mongoose RQ cults book 1 are both wrong?
GoG is wrong and I don't have RQ Cults book 1.
>I presume you have a source for this claim which also explains
>what she is.
Entekos, the Pelandan Goddess of the airs, has always been a major deity in Pelandan but was once a relatively minor figure for the Dara Happans. In Pelanda, Entekos is the Atmospheric Goddess, the High Goddess of Virtue and the Planet Dendara. In Dara Happa, Entekos is a minor goddess, a house- servant of Yelm while Dendara is the Emperor's Wife, the Planet and nothing more. Entekos appears on the Gods Wall, the most ancient of all documents, She is first among the second rank of deities ([...]). Dendara is also there, seperated and clearly identifiable by her smiling face. Nonetheless, it is Entekos on the [Gods Wall] who bears the planet which the [Dara Happans] identified as Dendara. Thus Entekos and Dendara seem to be, or have been, connected somehow with each other. The earliest Pelandan mentions of Entekos seem to use Dendara, meaning, as a title "the Virtuous". Sometimes it is as if Entekos, which in Dara Happan is the Goddess of Right Air, is a title. Thus, it appears that one Pelandan goddess became two when the cult moved to Dara Happa; or else two Dara Happan goddesses merged when the cult moved to Pelanda; or else an original goddess divided or was divided into parts in Dara Happa. The relationship was a subject of much philosophical discussion as one of the Plentonic debates. Unhelpful was the Paradox Solution. Researchers discovered that Dara Happan priestesses of Dendara or Entekos could participate fully in the rites of the Pelandan Entekos, but priestesses of the Pelandan Goddess could participate fully (that is, detect the hidden events properly) only in one or the other of the Dara Happan goddess' rites. The Entekosiad foreword.
--Peter Metcalfe
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