At 03:09 p.m. 22/12/2008, you wrote:
>Would Yelm "delegate" [spreading disease] to a less savoury servant
>(Shargash?)?
>
>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.
Apollo wasn't delegating so why should Yelm? Similarly the God of the
Old Testament doesn't seem to have any inhibitions with using disease
as a punishment.
--Peter Metcalfe