<< A wife or child of a Humakti remains kin even IF their husband or father has severed himself from his bloodline, IMO
Also note that a Humakti could join another clan/bloodline even after
having performed the ritual (most probably through marriage).
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For Arkat to be accepted by the Heortlings as the "son" of Death, Death must
be able to create life, and marry or at engender children. But this may be a
strange myth, indeed.
Of course, death is necessary for life-- is it still humakt if it is a blood
sacrifice to the earth? And dead men do have children, because they may lie
with their wives before they die in battle.
For that matter, ghosts are frequently enough encountered in RW mythology as
fathers. A husband might be "proved" by a wife to have returned from the
underworld to father a child on a childless widow.
Perhaps the wife of a Humakti has to ask Ty Kora Tek to bring her husband to
her in order that they might be fertile? It sounds like woman's magic.
Most women would not have the ability or desire to perform such magic and
would divorce a Humakt devotee, I think. But it might be one of those things
that is "not possible, but necessary" from time to time.
I'm not sure if a woman who follows Humakt is a "wife" at all. At least as
the Orlanthi see it: her loss of earth magics is a loss of fertility. She
must become a crone in law and in reality. Crones can make love, but they
would be infertile. A reversal of this might be temporarily possible, but
that might have to be man's magic.
- --Jeff E
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