Joerg Baumgartner:
>If you want a deity for female sexual experimentation, I'd look for a
>not so childish version of Voria. When you look into it closely, flowers
>are a plant's sexual organs, and Voria has them all over...
>
>The practice of the Demivierge of Rhigos seems to point in this
>direction while laying great importance to the merely physical aspect of
>virginity.
True, but the Demivierge's version of the Voria cult is a *very* atypical, some would say a perverted and obscene parody. I go into this (and a possible reason why) in my latest Jaxarte story "Jaxarte and the Demivierge", which will be published in a forthcoming TotRM. Here's the relevant excerpt, the footnotes are by his biographer Floriat Fedora:
[After leaving the Cradle on the high seas, Jaxarte has sold as a Herd Man by the Vadeli...]
[6] The Demivierge rules Rhigos as High Priestess and Virgin
Queen of the Voria cult. A hereditary matriarchy, the queens rule until they choose to bear an heir. The subsequent Festival of Fecundation is a time of great joy throughout the city, which is garlanded with specially plucked flowers. A key part of the celebrations are the Onanismic Games, where the queen gets to select her long- awaited First Mate. Men flock from all over Porthomeka to prove their virility. Events such as the Snatch & Jerk and Monkey-Spanking are always crowd pleasers. [7] Conservatives say the cult became an obscene parody of itself during the reign of her mother. Is it a coincidence that this particular queen was the one who made the deals with the Vadeli, and subsequently proceeded to stretch the definition of "virgin" to its current, deplorable bounds? _____________________________________________________________________MICHAEL O'BRIEN
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