I imagine Yelm punishing by withholding protection, or by permitting his servants to let disaster escape from the Underworld rather than to rain down sickness himself.
2008/12/20 Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_Gu0bXujYL8EZ3xW1yYbgYPDASEpitH-EArvLuQq4oHNjyp-3RJDukz38UfuBm0CYLzmyHYSIIUkwgvGok1SDOo2F7azNnA.yahoo.invalid>
> At 02:11 p.m. 20/12/2008, you wrote:
>
> >Would it not have an HQ equivalent based on Yelmic myths about Yelm
> >overcoming Mallia?
>
> For an alternative view, one could have diseases as being sent by
> Yelm as punishment for sins. After all, the first book of the Iliad
> features Apollo inflicting pestilence on the Greeks with his bow and
> arrows.
>
> It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was
> angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon
> the host to plague the people, because the son
> of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest.
>
> [...]
>
> [Apollo] came down furious from the summits of Olympus,
> with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and
> the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that
> trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the
> ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death
> as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their
> mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the
> people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were
> burning.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>
>
>
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