> So, all that is just some of the speculation of someone else whose
> been thinking about the whole pig issue :-)
Yet another speculation to add: Pigs are more strongly associated with the Harandings, enemies of the Heortlings. The Harandings even have Orlanth married to the Sow Mother in their mythology. I can't cite an exact source for this, but I think this might have been mentioned in _Thunder Rebels_ (in connection with the Lawstaff myth) and in _King of Sartar_, where the Sow Mother is called Urgronika.
In David Dunham's just completed Umathela game, the Orlanthi in that region had a pig-centric mythology. Their Sow Mother was married to the local form of Orlanth, and they had a Boar God who was an important deity for swineherds. This made sense in part because most of the area was forested, and so inhospitable to livestock other than pigs.
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