RE Birth rituals et al

From: allen wallace <alwallac_at_linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:07:15 -0800 (PST)


There have been several comments on the Eugenics/Healthy Baby lines. At least two gloranthan cults carry spells in this regard. Xiola Umbar is likely to be out of reach of most cultures, but Uleria isn't. Reproduce insures a healthy baby. I realize that most readers will never get past the sex-bomb aspect of the cult, but I guess you focus on what you lack. Anyway, I suspect that there is a STRONG midwife contingent in Uleria's cult, if only with the aging courtesans, with several midwives skipping the courtesan path as much as possible. Uleria is supposed to be a ubiquitous if temporally week cult. I suspect it might frost the Ernaldan hierarchy to have to concede the Mistress of the Fertility Rune superiority in this area, but by definition Uleria has to have it. If the good Ernaldan wants to insure conception and a healthy baby, she'll have to go see that midwife, you know the one that used to be ...   Regardless of attempts to the contrary, and Malkioni aside, Glorantha is a pantheonistic set of cultures with most races. Trying to bring all powers under one cult seems counterproductive to me.

                        Allen


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