History
Pre-Cataclysmic Age and Great Cataclysm
The Tarim has two known and contradictory origins:
- During the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, before the Great Cataclysm, Tarim was a minor spirit.[2]
- During the Cataclysm, in Lemuria, a man called Tarim rose and led his tribe to flee aboard ships westward,[3] on the eastern coast of the Thurian continent[4] (later known as the eastern shore of the Vilayet).[3]
The Tarim Incarnate was the living embodiment of the greatest Hyrkanian deities, a man-god for whom a holy war was being waged. He was told by the High Priest Kharam-Akkad about the Mirrors of Thuzun Thune, a tale revolving around King Kull of Valusia.[5]
Following the Great Cataclysm, circa 18,000 BC, the Tarim brought Erlik worship to the Hyrkanians, who founded the Turanian Empire.[6]
Hyborian Age
After the invasion of Makkalet, the Living Tarim was discovered by Conan to be in fact a diseased, inbred imbecile. The soldiers of Turan accidentally killed the Tarim with arrows, while the Cimmerian Conan fled his chamber. Prince Yezdigerd nevertheless celebrated his victory with a parade, marching the robed figure of the Tarim through the city, while only he and Sulimar knew underneath the robes a skeleton was all that remained.[7]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Conan the Barbarian #20
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #37; Sons of the White Wolf
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Conan the Barbarian #19
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #8; The Hyborian Age Chapter 2: The Rise of the Hyborians
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #25
- ↑ Thor & Hercules: Encyclopaedia Mythologica #1; The Tenger's entry
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #26
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