Etymology of “Lunar” Empire?

[David Summers]

Greg once said (don’t remember were) that “moon goddess” was essentially a “type” of goddess. But, as I understand it, a lot of them are not connected to a “moon”? They are connected as aspect of Sedenya (that’s the name of the unified “collective” right? We play Lunars and I can’t keep all them strait 🙂 ), but that means that the concept of a “moon goddess” is a Lunar one?

[Simon Phipp]

Lunar because the Red Goddess is a Lunar Goddess, the prime Moon Goddess.

Empire because the Red Emperor became co-Emperor and then sole Emperor of the Dara Happan Empire.

[Jeff Richard]

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Quote from David Summers on September 7, 2013, 09:07
Greg once said (don’t remember were) that “moon goddess” was essentially a “type” of goddess. But, as I understand it, a lot of them are not connected to a “moon”? They are connected as aspect of Sedenya (that’s the name of the unified “collective” right? We play Lunars and I can’t keep all them strait 🙂 ), but that means that the concept of a “moon goddess” is a Lunar one?

Sedenya is the ancient God Time Red Moon Goddess that was part of the Doom Conjunction and goddess of Mernita. She was one of four or five entities (including Orlanth or Rebellus Terminus) who slew Emperor Murharzarm. She was the goddess of Mernita and resisted Emperor Lukarius, thus beginning the War of the Many Suns. She was dragged from the sky and crashed upon her own worshippers, destroying their city entirely.

[Harald Smith]

Another stray thought on etymology.

From Charles Olson, the Maximus Poems: Peloria
“…I am making a mappemunde. It is to include my being.
It is called here, at this point and point of time
Peloria.”

[Martin Helsdon]

Peloria(s) was one of the Latin names for Punta del Faro, the northeastern promontory of Sicily; Carmania (Karmania) was the Greek name for a region of southern Persia, now called Kerman.

[Martin Helsdon]

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From Charles Olson, the Maximus Poems: Peloria
“…I am making a mappemunde. It is to include my being.
It is called here, at this point and point of time
Peloria.”

A pelorus was a type of navigation device used to take relative bearings, supposedly named for a navigator employed by Hannibal, recounted by Pomponius Mela’s Description of the World.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6AplSod8IDcC&pg=PA100&dq=Hannibal+pelorus&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=ck8YUYPPJOK5ywHL-oDoDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Hannibal%20pelorus&f=false

And in Greek pelor meant ‘monster’, and peloria is now used to describe a mutation in flowering plants…

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