Inire as a hierodule

James Wynn · 16 Jul 2010, 16:04 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:04:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) Inire as a hierodule
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>> The existence of a River Gyoll
>> almost requires the existence of a Fenrir in the story
>>      
> On 7/16/2010 10:51 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> That would be a rock Gyoll (Gjoll). The _river_ Gyoll was one of the
> rivers surrounding Hel, land of the dead (except for those who went to
> Valhalla). It is therefore significant that the river Gyoll runs
> through a necropolis.
>    

The homonymous naming is not incidental, neither in mythology nor, I 
believe, on Urth. In the cosmological sense, Gyoll is sometimes a river 
and sometimes a rock, but it is the same entity.

The Gyoll is not the only river in Hel. It does not _only_ run through a 
necropolis. And it is not the river associated with the centaur Nessus 
(which is Evenus). I think Wolfe does a better job at naming than that.

u+16b9

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