[Glorantha] Monomythising - was Re: Outlawry, a wider perspective

[Jane Williams]

> > Going so far as to say Orlanth is Yelm's blood
> >relative is going several steps further again,...

> G-IttHW page 11 implies Umath is the son of Yelm and
> Dendara
> as he made his own realm by "ripping asunder his
> father and 
> mother. Thus the sky was separated from the earth
> forever".
> That's described as a common story told throughout
> Peloria.
> Which would make Orlanth Yelm's grandson.

Doesn't the old "Wandering Sun, Jealous Uncle..."
poetic challenge imply kinship? If Yelmalio is the son
of Yelm, he's Umath's (half-?) brother and hence
Orlanth's uncle. It fits.






		
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