> On 1/30/2011 10:07 AM, valkoharja wrote:
> > But... here's my problem.
I've entered the discussion late again.
"problem" with... what?
The mythology and culture of Esrolia comes back to Imarja again and again,
At least that is clear!
> and Imarja's mythology doesn't seem to fit the rest of the heortling
> stuff...
To your perspective, that is.
The Esrolians have no problem with it.
Look out from there, not into there, and maybe is is clearer.
or anything else really.
Except Esrolia. Or mythology. :D
> She is described as a creator of life, and all in all like a great goddess
> and progenitor worthy of taking the place of Makan... but at the same time
> she's actually clearly a local goddess, not a pan-gloranthan power.
>
Is this the crisis point?
Your perceived point of misfitting, disjunction, of "my problem"?
The best explanation that I heard is that Imarja was a Storm Age
> preacher from Vithela (some sort of Keet) that preached mysticism to the
> Esrolian Grandmothers and they misunderstood.
> --Peter Metcalfe
>
The best whopper! :D hear that big laugh? That was me here's a comparable one:
Imarja was Malkion the Prophet, in disguise. After all, the AB says "...like
birds were His Words..." and also "He is the Word," right? So He [M the
Prophet] = birds = Imarja. It is just that those half-eyed grandsons of the
Kachasti never could see straight.
another
Imarja was punishment visited upon the people of that land by Malkion
He thought they were not being eaten fast enough by the darkness demons
so he turned them into stupid, fat geese to help it along
or one from the misogynists
Imarja is the true form of women
They are big and fat and stupid
the goddess is revealed in their collective spirit, a big V shape in the sky
the repulsive nest between a woman's legs
or maybe this is preferred
Imarja is just another name for Ernalda, the ephemeral, immaterial Feminine
just like the other goddess who is listed in "Some Miscellaneous Items,
Esrolia."
although in fact we do have what is probably a more satisfying answer
my good valkoharja
You already said it
--
Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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