Or, as it's put in Thunder Rebels: "The Heortling Rites come first, which make children into adults, individual and recognized. Heort and his wife Ivarne taught these rites to everyone, and all Heortling clans use them today." (TR 58)
Could I suggest that those who are engaging with this thread read Thunder Rebels pp. 58-60 "Becoming People"? We've discussed this before on this forum, but certain ambiguities in the writing mean that we could still have some fun stitching together the various bits about what goes on in the initiation process and elaborating on the initiations described.
As I see it, the HQ initiation sequence goes something like this:
I really like Alison's telling of the Ernalda quest, but it feels to me like it would work better in the RQ milieu where one initiation did it all. Does it still work if it's the final stage-3 initiation, and not part of the sorting process? Or should we add it into the Heortling Rites (stage-1) after the Great Goddess communal initiation? I think it would be useful then to give the initiands a clearer idea of who they were, what their strengths and weaknesses were, and where they should be heading.
Cheers,
Jennifer
-- Jennifer Geard ------------------------------
Powered by hypermail