> > I was rather surprised that everybody assumes a connection
> > with homosexuality for Nandan. When I first heard of Nandan,
> > that he saved the clan by giving birth when the women turned
> > barren, I assumed that he was a man whose wife couldn't
> > have children and whose heroquest to have a child ended
> > up with him learning woman mysteries and coneiving a child
> > himself.
>
> No, he's not. The story, any time I've heard it from Robin and from
> Greg, explicitly involves sleeping with another man; sleeping
> with another man without subsequent actual Birthing, is Nandan's
> "lesser magic"; and they adopt a female social role.
Oh, first mention of Nandan I saw was in a HW draft. Well,
there goes that theory. Too bad though, I liked it.
Nils Weinander
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