The High Gods of Pelanda Write up Page Year Runes Notes Mythology 153, 154 2023 None listed Cult Distribution: Doblian, West Reaches Guide to Glorantha 317 2014 None listed In: The High…
Tag: Dendara
Dendara Temple
Tarsh Location Type Page Affiliation Bell Temple,Filichet (large city) Minor temple 105
The Sky Gods
The Sky is orderly, regular, and far removed from mortal ephemeralism. The Sun, planets, and stars move in regular patterns through the sky. Clusters of stars form constellations, associated with gods, monsters,…
Food Production in the Lunar Heartlands
Most of the people in the Lunar Heartlands are directly involved with food production: Now wait – you might ask – the Seven Mothers really don’t provide squat in terms of agricultural…
Hon-Eel In Tarsh
There is no Red Earth subcult of Ernalda. In Tarsh, about 10% of the adult population are initiates of Hon-eel. About 25% are initiates of Ernalda. They are separate cults. Hon-eel tried…
La-ungariant
Goddess of the Pure Horse People Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 74 2023 n/a Prosopaedia entry Common and uncommon runes 2004 None listed Glyph only
Notes on Kralorela I
Kralorela has some 8.9 million people and covers around 625,000 square km. Kralorela is a relatively narrow arable band of land, islands, and shallows seas no more than 500 km wide, between…
Disease in Glorantha
Although I don’t make that much use of them in my campaigns, disease spirits are among the biggest dangers in Glorantha. The average disease spirit has a POW of 16-17 and has…
The Seventh Soul
Before the Red Goddess, people had only six souls. These had been placed in them by the gods when they made the first people. The six soul-parts, and the deity which contributed…
Prehistoric Moons
In the God Time, Glorantha had a moon or moons, sometimes described as blue, red, or even purple. Most give a celestial origin for this Lunar Goddess, calling her the daughter of…
Deep Lunar Synthesis
One of Greg’s deep background notes that I refer to an awful lot when I think about Glorantha is this chart that he put together to try to think about the basic…
Oslira Rune magic
So I was recently pondering why Oslira does not provide Strongnet, unlike Engizi and Zola Fel. And I realized the answer is quite easy – the Oslira cult is not the cult…
Entekos in the Lunar Heartlands
The primary atmospheric deity in the Lunar Heartlands is Entekos, whose cult is largely contained to Karasal, Oronin, and the Silver Shadow). Her cult is closely associated with Dendara, and is associated…
Notes on Filichet I
This city on the shores of lake Invaress has around 15,000 residents and is the capital of the Lunar Province of Holay. Filichet marks the end of the Daughter’s Road. From here,…
Notes on Redaylda – Dendara – Ernalda
In South Peloria the cults of Dendara and Ernalda overlap, often with great confusion. As we all know, Ernalda is the great Earth Goddess of the Theyalans. Her cult is centered on…
Notes on Dendara
In history, Dendara’s cult has remained important as the primary Pelorian and Pentan women’s goddess. She was revered by the Suns of the Son and the Pure Horse People, and called La-ungariant,…
Halisayan
The Good Wife, Goddess of Virtue Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Notes Prosopaedia 52 2023 n/a Kralorelan Equivalencies Post 2022 None listed n/a AKA: Dendara (but married to Emperor Thalurzni)…
Peloria I
The Pelorian bowl is a steppe-land, about 640 km from Saird to the Thunder Delta, and about 800 km from the Sweet Sea to the Redlands frontier, where it merges into the…
Magical challenges
Magical challenges to prove a truth are well accepted in Glorantha. This goes back to the Gods Age, when contests of the arts were popular among the gods – the most famous…
A Fragment of the Celestial Realm
I present to you a fragment of the Celestial Realm for your amazement and edification! Thanks to the remarkable Agathe Pitié for this! Hey, who is that in the lower center? It…
Pelorian Earth Cults
One thing that writing the Cults Book has really hammered into me is how much fear the traditional rulers of Peloria (aka the Yelm cult) have for Lodril as Monster Man. But…
Dendara
The Good Goddess, the Good Wife. The faithful and beautiful wife of Emperor Yelm is the paragon of uxorial virtue. With magnificent pride and skill she commands her heaven-full of servants, and…
Deezola
The Binder Within Deezola was a ruler of lands on the Arcos river and a priestess of Dendara. She is famous as a healer and is a favored patron of nobles and…