Re: Connecting the dots between Anilla and Zaytenera

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_sbibGJDsEzXTY-r2r3I5os6EHY4ZsGcwPom7pBLNbpCl6aQjLiGgE1inIg9HvgGmPE0OG>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:43:05 -0700

> It from is a God Learner source, the writings of Thorloss the Scribe in
> 833 ST and as such is easy to wave away.
>
> I prefer not to do so for two reasons:
>
> 1) I do not think it coincidental that a tribe of Uz worshipping the
> Blue Moon should somehow settle a piece of land that has strong
> associations with a completely different Blue Moon. Or to put it in
> other words "What are the odds?"
>
> 2) I'm not in the habit of repudiating old texts merely because new
> thinking has occurred since then. I prefer to re-interpret them to be
> consistent with the new thinking so Thorloss wouldn't be totally
> clueless in what he wrote about the Blue Moon.

>From my reading I deduce that, as of the writing of Troll Gods, and even as
late as GRoY and Fortunate Succession ('95ish), Greg wasn't aware that Lesilla was a moon or part of the Lunar Progression. The Blue Moon stuff from Troll Gods says the Blue Moon plateau was part of *Anilla's* Body which crashed to earth; GRoY seperates Lesilla and "Annilha" but makes no mention of Lesilla's Lunar connection. I point at it as an instance of gregging since Greg got Enlightened in the Radience of Her.

For a Thorloss to make the mistake is easy and totally understandable - there was no Moon in the sky *other* than Anilla, and she was blue, and here's this great huge hill made of Blue Moon stuff... Sedenya hadn't been in the sky, and in fact had been totally forgotten, since before the Dawn. So Thorloss, using whatever the Glorantha equivalent of Occam's Razor is called, connected the two "Blue Moons", rather than "inventing" another Blue Moon to explain the Plateau. It's quite possible, in fact I'd say nearly certain, that he *was* completely clueless about Lesilla.

That the Trolls may (or may not, since they don't tell anyone that they do and it is not common knowledge, merely a rumor whispered by fearful people in the full light of day) worship Anilla and happen to live on the body of Lesilla can be: A) Coincidence (never tell me the odds), B) A superb bit of misdirection, C) Trollz is so stoopid dey don't kno, D) There is capital-S Something the sagacious trolls know that mere humans (even Sedenya worshippers and Greg) don't. (which brings us back to do-oh-oh-oh.). Me? I favor B.

RR
>From such a face and form as mine, the noblest sentiments sound like the
black utterances of a depraved imagination.