Re: Nandan

From: Nils Weinander <nils_at_weinander.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:49:53 +0200

>This difference is interesting, as there is thus no place for
>>men who want to take on predominantly female tasks but still
>>are men, who marry women etc. Are there no male healers,
>>herbalists, visionaries etc. in heortling society?

Peter M:
>
>Healers and Herbalists can join Chalana Arroy and still be
>men.

Ah! True, I forgot that Chalana has different rules from Ernalda's.

Donald Oddy:
>
>I'm not convinced of this difference, I think Vingans are regarded
>as men in women's bodies by Heortlings. This attitude comes from
>their view that those who follow Orlanth are male and those who
>follow Ernalda are female irrespective of their physical attributes
>or sexual preferences.
>
>So Nandani are more than men who take on women's work, they are
>followers of Ernalda which makes them women in a magical context.
>In the same way Vingans are followers of Orlanth which makes them
>men in a magical context.

I'm not conviced of this argument as Nandans are explicitly stated to be women when it comes to marriage, whereas Vingans aren't.

Anyway, perhaps the most interesting aspect of this is to compare the amount of discussion we do about Vinga and women in male occupations compared to the amount we do about heortling men in female occupations and their cults. Says something about us I guess, but I'm not quite sure what :-)

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Nils Weinander
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