This might be a better link to the Gods Wall art (Re: Verithurus-Verithurusa
https://plus.google.com/108191783232173529938/posts/ejBxQRwqQCH
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> Ah, that helps.
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> I was going by the beard at I-9 in
> https://plus.google.com/communities/102577244714186267235/stream/ebcd0117-d39b-44b5-805b-0dac95b309b5
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> But I notice, now that you point it out, that GRoY doesn't have a beard there. (So the artist made a mistake there I think).
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> I also notice that none of the 10 planets have beards. Some of them I think we definitely regard as male (Buserian, Shargash)? I wonder if, as gods in the celestial realms, there were depicted that way because, they are pure and above such impure concepts as sex and gender so it was not important to indicate it on the wall?
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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Trotsky <TTrotsky@> wrote:
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> > drscience3000 wrote:
> > >
> > > Verithurusa doesn't appear on the Gods wall, except there are hints
> > > that she is represented as the masculine version of her name,
> > > Verithurus. Now, the goddess can be represented in a masculine aspect,
> > > but this wouldn't seem to be the right aspect for that? But maybe the
> > > rationalization is simply that Dara Happan patriarchy needed that god
> > > to be male and carved him/her that way? Or maybe I'm wrong that they
> > > are some god?
> > >
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> > Note that the picture on the Wall shows the deity as being of
> > ambiguous/unclear gender (i.e. fully clothed, and having neither a beard
> > nor obvious breasts). Plentonius assumes that all the deities fitting
> > this description are male, but there's no reason to assume he's correct.
> > I think the carving shows a young girl, and Plentonius has merely
> > assumed it's a young boy, and used the masculine version of the name for
> > theological reasons.
> >
> > --
> > Trotsky
> > Gamer and Skeptic
> >
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