in seven cities, spirits and demons with little of the human about them shrug into layers of power that lie across the land and usurp them. the worship of the lady in korel involved a hell of a lot of flagellation and people not expecting a certain type of inquisition. many of the monotheistic religions can be said to riff on the abrahamic religions of our world. the letherii worship a formless notion of success and the accumulation of wealth, surely a more modern god than anything else. the wickans have a spirit-totem-rebirth thing going on, without a god in sight, while the dal hon have, in sergeant balms words, a 'whole disgusting menagerie'. I think SE/ICE will provide us some consistent mythology but ultimately we have to throw away our "rational/scientific" thinking and have to accept whatever they provide as is.Ĭertainly many of the gods resemble the indo-european types passed around in antiquity, but other cultures show different sorts of gods, or none at all. Finally there are gods like spite, envy, pinosel, jhess, QoD, QoW. Then we have gods like Burn (earth), Mael (water), Olar ethil (fire), Kilimandaros (procreation), D'rek (dissolution). In the MBotF mythology, we have "chaos", "abyss", "space", "vitr", "darkness". A lot of the gods are given both an aspect and a star/planet. And then there are many demigods, spirits etc. Then come the "human aspect" gods who are gods of "human interactions and culture" like gods of victory, spite, wars, healing, wine, agriculture etc. Then come the "elemental gods" like space, air, water, earth, fire who own aspects of that physical world that was created. First are the "creation" gods (darkness, chaos, etc.) who basically create something from either nothing or from one kind of thing. In my (amateurish) taxonomy of the Greek gods, you can see sort of see three classes of gods. So it was interesting to find that the Greeks have a god for Darkness. My gut reaction is that darkness is just the absence of light. I always thought that Draconus and his aspect of darkness to be strange. Im not saying you are not right of course Just that SE has large source of education (god bless anglosaxian system of archeology/ anthropology). And of course, whole Icarium line reminds cyclical myths as Baals (or Kumarbi) cycles - ĭepiction of Kilmandaros in Forge of Darkness reminds me paleolithic "venuses", But IMO it can be applied to Burn, partly because Dog-runners reminds me paleolithic hunters. I think that paralel to Anomander is clear.įrom another part, wandering of Icarium and Mappo reminds me (slightly) Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Some picture Tiamat as dragon, but its largely modern interpretation. She gave "birth" to first generations of gods.and Markud slays her after, creting from her body earth and heaven. SE draws from many mythologies and of course, those sources are ovelapping itself and secondly, SE doesnt have to "copy" because many of myth became part of cultural heritage across cultural regions.įor example whole Tiam thing seems to be drawn from Babylonian mythos about storm god Marduk slaying monster goddess of chaos - named Tiamat.
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