Okay, so… The Nelfs worship Elune, the moon goddess.
But There are TWO moons over Azeroth. One also referred to as “The White Lady”, the other, “The Blue Child”, which we don;t seem to have a name for.
So, presumably “Elune” could be either the Thalassian word for “Moon”, or it could be “The White Lady”, right?
But it doesn’t make much sense that it literally means “moon”… after all , there are two moons, and only one is Elune.
So is there a word they use for “moon”?
Speculations welcome
She just about the only confirmed god in the universe.
I think Elune is just her name. Like Surlain or Lorien. They don’t mean Night elf (best elf). Perhaps the moon is just the manifestation or focus of Elune power.
Don’t they sometimes call her mother moon? Assuming that’s not a translation they probably differentiate between the hunk of space rock and the goddess.
I don’t think it’s Thalassian since that’s the language the High Elves speak and they don’t worship Elune. It’s Darnassian if not an older language.
Yes, I knew that, Thx.
Well, question answered then.
Sorry if that’s a misnomer… I was told all elfish langiages are essentially variations on Thalassian
I’m getting sick and tired of this outdated quote being thrown in.
This line dates from Vanilla/Classic… Since then we’ve been introduced to …
Old Gods…apparantly something even big bad Sargeras is frightened of.
Troll Gods of Northrend… whom apparently troll priests have been snacking upon for power-ups.
Odyn and his fellow Keepers who seem to be the gods of the Vrykul.
The Wild Gods of the Night Elf Pantheon.
and so on?
All of this history since then has thrown the idea of “god” into a blender and all we have are pieces of meaning.
So what does the phrase “one true god” mean? What does god itself mean, and by whose assessement ranks Elune in a singular role? Who confirms her? She’s certainly not acknwledged by the Tauren, nor the Humans, nor any other native Azerothian race, She’s not even acknowledged by the Night Elves as a whole. The Highborne and Azshara certainly had no deference for her and neither do the Nightborne who have even older claims to Night Elf culture than the Kal’dorei.
To Night Elves that rock IS a manifestation of the Goddess… or the other way around. Take your pick.
Yeah but a manifestation of doesn’t necessarily mean they literally believe it is their goddess. That could mean they simply believe it’s a symbol of her power in the world.
The Old Gods have their own bosses.
These are all on the same level as Cenarius. They are demigods at best.
That’s ab it off on a tangent that goes why beyond what I said. Then again, we get to the fact that being worshiped as a god doesn’t make one a god.
How you have that and
at the same time?
Because there’s a difference between believing the moon rock is your goddess and believing it’s just something she created/expresses herself through?
That is a better explanation.
Or maybe it’s the other way around. If Elune is a projection of the Moon, that would explain why she is powerless and never has been known to manifest when the Moon is not visible.
Either or. As long as she doesn’t start devouring the planet like a Brethren Moon it’s fine either way.
Doesn’t answer the question.
I know she’s a goddess. Is Elune just her name, or is it the WORD for “moon” (like “Luna” is in Latin, while still being their word for Moon), and if it’s her name, what would the word for Moon be.
THAT was the question.
It is her name. I have not seen what the Moon translates into any language.
It wouldnt be Thalassian because that is the Quel/Sindorei language. They’ve called her Elune since the Kaldorei were the only elves on the block.
Linguistically, Shalassian is probably the closest thing to Highborne speech. Darnassian and Thalassian are variants with similarities. Elune is some sort of Goddess for sure. She seems to embody both the Light AND the Void. She’s not like anything else we’ve seen.