Elusu is clearly much more colloquial than most when she tells mythological stories. I hadn’t heard the bit about Orlanth beating the giants of the Rockwoods senseless before – that’s an interesting detail.
You’ll be hard put to find someone not beat senseless by Orlanth, some time in the Gods War. Possibly Ernalda, but not quite sure – there was a reason that Orlanth went into exile several times.
I dunno. Orlanth always seemed too whipped and too henpecked in the myths to ever be able to do anything to Ernalda other then say “Yes, Dear!” even if he had ever wanted to. Which probably goes a long way towards explaining why earth magic beats air magic when there’s a tie. Was there *ever* a Heortling myth where a disagreement between the two of them ever had his opinion of a matter turning out to be the correct one or acknowledged by Ernalda to be as such? o_O
It occurs to me that I have no idea what’s supposed to happen to the babies when they reach the sea. Here’s to hoping Elusu stays coherent enough to explain the whole thing! 😀
The giant’s babies go straight to Hell (aka, the Underworld). Why they WANT them to go down the Pool is probably an interesting question, as is how do they get back here (if they do – maybe all the new giants seen come from somewhere else, given that the upcoming is the first cradle since well before the Closing).
One of the thinks you guys do *really* well is tell the myths from the point of view of the average believer.
Not the meta-mythology, not the knowledge cult scholarly treatise, but the on-the-street beliefs of the lay practitioner.
Kudos.
Brilliant! I love the mythic aura of the story, the tiny Praxian animals, and how Ingilli interrupts the digression!
Elusu is clearly much more colloquial than most when she tells mythological stories. I hadn’t heard the bit about Orlanth beating the giants of the Rockwoods senseless before – that’s an interesting detail.
You’ll be hard put to find someone not beat senseless by Orlanth, some time in the Gods War. Possibly Ernalda, but not quite sure – there was a reason that Orlanth went into exile several times.
I dunno. Orlanth always seemed too whipped and too henpecked in the myths to ever be able to do anything to Ernalda other then say “Yes, Dear!” even if he had ever wanted to. Which probably goes a long way towards explaining why earth magic beats air magic when there’s a tie. Was there *ever* a Heortling myth where a disagreement between the two of them ever had his opinion of a matter turning out to be the correct one or acknowledged by Ernalda to be as such? o_O
I’m sure there are – but they’ll be ones where Orlanth had already decided to do what Ernalda wanted…
It occurs to me that I have no idea what’s supposed to happen to the babies when they reach the sea. Here’s to hoping Elusu stays coherent enough to explain the whole thing! 😀
The giant’s babies go straight to Hell (aka, the Underworld). Why they WANT them to go down the Pool is probably an interesting question, as is how do they get back here (if they do – maybe all the new giants seen come from somewhere else, given that the upcoming is the first cradle since well before the Closing).
I heard somewhere it had something to do with giants being slow.
WOAH
That´s some amazing myth-colouring… My kudos to you!
evilmidnightlurker: yeah, nobody seems to have a clue. Maybe to be raised overseas by the old rich uncle from far away?
I love this mythical rendition -)
Greg partly explains why the babies go to hell somewhere in one of the Q&As on glorantha.com
http://www.glorantha.com/docs/why-do-the-giants-use-the-river-of-cradles/
To quote Futurama, “That just raises *further* questions!” 😀
One of the thinks you guys do *really* well is tell the myths from the point of view of the average believer.
Not the meta-mythology, not the knowledge cult scholarly treatise, but the on-the-street beliefs of the lay practitioner.
Kudos.