It IS realistic for gods to have multiple names, used by different sects, like many Hindu gods, or just used interchangeably.
What’s not realistic is for the God to physically show up and only call themselves by one name, used by literally every race (Thiernax and Qadarin also call her Elune), which definitively proves that one name is wrong.
Elune had the power to correct them at any point, but their skin wasn’t purple enough.
More realistically, maybe they knew her as Elune in the past, but handing down the story over millenia saw names, titles, events drastically changed. Thus: myth and folklore. Much like Odin being Woten, and that was two cultures with overlaps in close proximity who were contemporary. Now try that with drastically different cultures not in close proximity over millenia, with one group being functionally immortal and the other aging/dying normally.
Bingbon Tauren are wrong. They are savages with no real religion. Even Trolls have better understanding of the beings they call as gods. So for me it is the worst Horde race with a lot of bad world building.
Your race worships a holy toilet.
I rewatched the Elune/Winter Queen cinematic, and Elune does not refer to her own self by name.
This is good proof, but there’s also a simple alternative; they could be using the name we’re familiar with.
I agree that Elune’s name is probably Elune, but I am playing some Devil’s advocate here.
Nothing personal, but this Watsonian excuse-making crap that people do on this forum is just so insufferable. No one at Blizzard should be giving the benefit of the doubt to any writer for their mistakes. Neither one of those real-world cultures saw Odin in the flesh confirm that only one of his names was right.
And again literally everyone calls her “Elune” besides the Tauren. If you’re gonna have a world where Gods are all shrouded in mystery and have different names, then don’t confirm that one playable race is just wrong. Also, why doesn’t this apply to like, any other gods ever?
In fact, this isn’t the only Tauren myth that’s been proven wrong by Blizz theough Word of God.
Blood elves are atheists. and my current RP main is Draenei
I would just flip that around and put it back to you: the Tauren are an odd pearl in the poop sandwich of Warcraft religious depictions. The rest of it being half-baked doesn’t make Tauren creation myths bad. It is more bizarre how lacking in mythoi most of the races are by comparison, excepting possibly Trolls.
Odin still had a point of origin that was the “correct” form. It filtered across time/peoples and changed. That is the point I’m getting across. Most of the peoples referencing Elune are introduced to her via Night Elven faith. It isn’t as if Elune herself is appearing to everyone to enforce mandatory name pronunciations. In fact, despite being the closest thing to an actual deity we have encountered on Azeroth, we still know virtually nothing about her.
Bad? No, that’s not the word I’d ever go for. The tauren relugion is some of the most interesting they’ve got. Shame it’s all literally wrong according to Blizzard, while other races aren’t treated the same way.
What I think you’re getting at here is that Blizzard should add more races with “wrong” myths or beliefs, and that’s not something I’ve ever been against. It’s actuallt kind of necessary. Instead of always making the Tauren wrong, have the Humans, Draenei, or elves believe in fairytales for once.
There’s an “original” myth, but nothing “correct,” unless he’s real.
Bruh, literally all the Night Warriors in Shadowlands calll her Elune, and have nothing to do with the Night Elves.
In that they are myths constructed around the facts? Sure.
Night Warriors have Elune on speed dial like Priestesses of the Moon and Tyrande do. That doesn’t preclude Tauren saying “we call her Mu’sha.”
What you’re saying would imply that the Tauren never had a single Night Warrior, which would be even worse than what we already know.
My whole point is that Tauren are the ONLY race that call her by a wrong name, and that fits with Blizzard’s trend of sidelining Tauren Tauren beliefs in favor of Night Elf and Human ones?
Where’s An’she? Where’s the Earth Mother? Why does Elune get to be an aspect of Life, with an implied relation to both Shadow and light, while the Tauren have literally nothing? No tangible part of the cosmos where their beliefs fit?
Earth Mother = Azeroth. They seem to be the only people that directly revere her. Apart from the recent addition of Harronir.
This stuck out to me as odd.
What is wrong with people having different names for people?
Kind of reminds me of Gandalf from LotR -how he was called Gandlaf by some, and Mithrandir by others.
That aside, I started looking at Google and came across this:
“ Lun’alai could possibly mean “Elune’s Ones”, as Atal’ai means Devoted Ones, wherein Lun’al could be Elune’s name in Zandali. “
It would appear the Zandalari may have a different perspective, as well, on the words referring to Elune.
Nihon/Nippon vs. Japan.
IF that’s true, then the Tauren would still be wrong.
If your name is Juan and someone calls you John, your name is still Juan lol.
If the only point you are trying to make is that the Tauren calling Elune “Mu’sha” is technically wrong, yeah. That is different than saying it is stupid/wrong/unrealistic for Tauren to have their own terms or mythoi, which is what this thread is grounded in—separating myth and legend from fact re: Tauren myths in a way that maps onto Beledar and Azeroth.
The point is Tauren myths shouldn’t be wrong when Night Elves are always right, yeah.
So Tauren are wrong got it.
Night Elves are still alive and have personal relationships with their gods. I don’t know if they even have true creation myths, apart from evolving from trolls (which I think they deny?)
Tauren seem to be outliers in that they have handed down stories about their creators instead of directly worshiping some cosmic slice, or personally speaking to/with the Wild Gods, or the Keepers, or Loa. Thinking about it kinda leaves me wondering if the Harronir aren’t going to swoop in and rob them of their Earth Mother relevance by being more closely tied to Azeroth.
Don’t think I’d like to see Ethereals as the big bads without an overhaul to Outland that eventually leads us to K’aresh.