Talk:Rotath

"The Moonstone" might be idential with "The red heart of the night"= The heart of Ahriman in the days of Conan. The lady of the moon riding a tiger resemble Durga, a hindu goddess often equated with Kali, among other things the mother of the god Ganesh. Yag- kosha in "The tower of the elephant" looks like Ganesh and come like Rotath from the right part of the world. The father of Ganesh- a rather bad one!- was Shiva The destroyer. "Ahriman" means "The destroyer". The asphodel was a flower that the greek did dedicate to Persephone, the queen of Hades(both the realm of the dead and its ruler.) Wit time the fields of Hades were thought to be covered with asphodel. In "The scarlet citadel" Conan saves the wizard Pelias from a diabolical flower allegedly litteraly rooted in Hell - and coming from Yag, the homeworld of Yag-kosha.This "yothga-plant"is arguably "The asphodel". As for the name of Rotath "rhotacism" is a linguistic peculiarity typical for among other places Elis in Greece - the one place where Hades,lord of the Underworld, was worshipped in sole majesty.