Re: The Glorantha Digest V5 #538

From: madamx_at_mikka.net.au
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:36:39 +1000


Mr Lord claims that ignorance of procreation is unlikely to be a feature of "primitive "
society.

There is (or was in 1978 anyway) at least one Aboriginal tribe in the Kimberlies, Western
Australia, who were at least in deep denial over the male role in procreation. These people
had a very sophisticated spiritual explantion for the event but absolutly forbade any mention,
among men, of physiological causes. An RQ tribe among whom this belief was current could
,if isolated, forget the role of sex. If the spiritual cause became paramount in their belief sex may
lose its role. Why not? G is founded in its spirituality not its physicality. Perhaps the Ulerian
myths are a plot,dating from Godtime, to control fertility; or perhaps not. :-)
Darvall.
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