My own thought is that Asrelia and Ty Kora Tek are not worshipped as separate goddesses, but rather are subcults of a theoretical "Ernalda the Crone" aspect which THUNDER REBELS did not cover. Even in pre-industrial societies, menopause does not occur until the late forties or early fifties, and the probability of a woman's survival to that age is low enough (~15% for a life expectancy of 20 years, ~30% for a life expectancy of 30) for me to believe these two goddess cults would in fact fall within that 15% of Orlanthi who worship less-typical gods.
-- Michael Richard Schwartz | Language is my playground, mschwartz_at_... | and words, its slides and Ann Arbor, Michigan USA | swingsets. -- yours truly
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