Hsunchen Taboos

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:31:59 +1200


Simon Hibbs:

>From what I remember the 'what my uncle told me' bit for the Hsunchen
>is very critical of enslaving animals as beasts of burden. It ranks right
>up there with ploughing as a big no-no. That's not to say that some
>hsunchen can't have staryed from this ideal.

The source you cite is for Rathori only. It is by no means a universal hsunchen taboo. Therefore to say that Hsunchen who use their totems to carry animals are straying from an ideal is fanciful.

End of The Glorantha Digest V6 #568


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