What's so great about Vinga?

From: simonh_at_msi-uk.com
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:17:43 -0000


Donald Oddy :

>I can imagine a clan based around Vinga and Barntar with Barntar
>taking over many of Ernalda's roles (e.g. childcare and fertility)
>and leaving Ernalda the mother as a specialist concentrating on
>pregnancy and birth. If such a clan exists it would be isolated
>from mainstream heortling clans and probably has other odd
>features as well - maybe it is cursed to have few sons.

Vinga is an adventuring cult, as Orlanth Adventurous (or whatever it's called these days) is. Vinga offers no powers of rulership, justice or social cohesion that Orlanth Rex offers and she cannot unify the masculine and femenine components of society as a whole.

Simon Hibbs


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