[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 245

[Topi Pitkänen]

> >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.

> I'd go for full brother rather than half brother because Yelm
> and Dendara are supposed to have the perfect faithful marriage.
> Of course if Umath is Yelm's illegitimate son by some other
> goddess that explains a lot. Including the fact that DH sources
> try to pretend Umath and his descendants don't exist.

Galgarenge, the Gryphon Goddes from Yelm's Wedding Contest myth.

She wanted to be the empress by the merit of bearing a fine son.
But it was not truly his child. (GRoY p10)

We might be talkin' about Yelmalio's momma here.

-Topi

...and maybe some parts of Yelm like Antirius/Vrimak did the fatherin'.

"There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one
 says from bearing any resemblancce to what one has in mind."
- Marcel Proust, Rememberance of Things Past -