What source says Anillha is associeted with the blue moon p0lateau?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:22 AM, David Cake <dave_at_VxzIj8dc7YylRMQ6NEWpH9uINoAgaYzsrkeTpYoZuV-r9kjPKcRkHhIrm2O7nTgaANyqFTRUWLG9tNNhCRg99A.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> I find Peters explanation unsatisfying. Apparenlty, it means
> all the Uz Blue Moon Plateua Annilla cultists are apparently just
> mistaken idiots, who have never bothered to heroquest to find out if
> the basis of their religion is correct
Exploring one{s mythic roots outside of one{s usual worship is actually VERY rare. Most beings are content to do what they know.
> (and the Lunar Empire knows
> they are wrong and just doesn't bother to tell them)?
Why would they?
> Surely, with
> such a big mistake, any attempt to heroquest beyond the trivial would
> be fairly disastrous? And this for a cult that 1) is known to have
> access to a lot of unusual, hard to obtain information and 2) seems
> to have been surviving quite happily (if mostly in isolation) since
> the Dawn.
>
I see no necessary connection between those two factoids and here previous incarnation
>
> Surely, instead there could be some mythic connection between
> the two different celestial blue bodies? Even if it was an
> invented/forged one (ie an adoption myth, or some other myth of
> claimed friendship between the two).
could be, but why insist on it so much?
> Especially with such an odd,
> mysterious, deity, who is perfectly capable of reconciling
> contradictions (for example, her myth in troll gods has her giving
> birth to her own soulless body, then possessing it). For example, the
> trolls could understand the two are separate, but have a myth
> explaining the connection, such as the two meeting in the Underworld
> and Annilha teaching secrets that explain why Sedenya chose to become
> blue, or something like that. Or even teaching her secrets about how
> to climb out of the underworld that Sedenya used much later. Or who
> knows what - Annilla knows many mysterious things, for starters.
>
YGFWV
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Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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