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Post by kemp on Mar 10, 2023 22:25:37 GMT -5
That RPG list with the correlations is interesting, but I never associated Zamora with Persia. Much of it seems close to spot on, some sketchy, but it would be fascinating to match actual references from REH in his writings correlating the Hyborian age kingdoms with historical counterparts.
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Post by johnnypt on Mar 11, 2023 15:31:58 GMT -5
That RPG list with the correlations is interesting, but I never associated Zamora with Persia. Much of it seems close to spot on, some sketchy, but it would be fascinating to match actual references from REH in his writings correlating the Hyborian age kingdoms with historical counterparts. That's one of the ones I'm not sold on, though by including Baghdad, I think that's more the direction it's in. More of a standard Middle Eastern country than Persia per se.
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Post by kemp on Mar 12, 2023 1:46:53 GMT -5
That RPG list with the correlations is interesting, but I never associated Zamora with Persia. Much of it seems close to spot on, some sketchy, but it would be fascinating to match actual references from REH in his writings correlating the Hyborian age kingdoms with historical counterparts. That's one of the ones I'm not sold on, though by including Baghdad, I think that's more the direction it's in. More of a standard Middle Eastern country than Persia per se. Some of these correlations started to come about in the late 90's when self styled REH 'experts' found certain Hyborian age attributes and names to kind of relate with historical counterparts and it was eventually accepted by large portions of the Conan and REH fan base, but much of it has always been open to interpretation of course. The net has certainly played its part. It's a fun subject, but unfortunately, at times. it has made for some very fiery debate . Zamorians are certainly alien, different to say Hyborians, but not Shemitish or Hyrkanian, they kind of exist outside the mainstream Euro, Semitic and Turkic centric type of cultures, although Howard in his histories did say that a branch of the Zamorians mixed with Zingarians, emerging centuries later as Gypsies. I suppose that works, Gypsies have a mysterious side an otherness to them, I can see the Zamora connection, but I can also see Baghdad, but maybe I'm thinking of magic and genies and a mythic middle east.
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