This fits my vague memories. Societies where kids didn't get named until they were 5, that sort of thing.
> I remember reading something that suggested historically
that
> child and
> mother mortality went down significantly when people
started
> using iron
> cooking pots (anaemia makes blood loss more significant).
>
> I can't remember where I read it, but my wife remembers
> reading something
> similar as well, so perhaps I'm not imagining it...
I remember this, too, so maybe we shared a dream.
But, this is Glorantha, not Earth, so we don't really want to know about the chemistry of iron and anaemia. We need a myth. I'd have thought having the metal of Death around a pregnant woman would be a Very Bad Thing, myself. Maybe some story about eating spinach and liver? No myths spring to mind immediately, though.
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