Re: Ernalda's fighting daughters

From: alexei mcdonald <alexei_mcdonald_at_...>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:46:40 +0000


Hello all!

Peter wrote (and I snipped):
>
>The version I was going from (Drastic: Prax) has her as a daughter
>of Sky and Earth. In any case, she originally comes from Dawn
>Age Ralios where neither Yelm or Ernalda were worshipped.
>

Thanks for the info. It seems to me that if she's worshipped by the Heortling Yelmalions, then their interpretation of a child of Earth And Sky might well be that she's a daughter of Yelm and Ernalda, but that will now become a ygwv kind of detail.

> >At any rate, it might be that these clans don't need special cults for
>women
> >per se, since they don't place restrictions on the sex of the worshippers
>of
> >the Husband-Deity.
>
>I don't quite understand. If the God is worshipped as a Husband, then it
>follows that he is worshipped for his masculine prowess. Not requiring
>his worshippers to be male seems to me counterproductive.
>

That's the way it seemed to me initially when I framed the question. Vinga exists, in some senses anyway, as a way for women to work around this proble, and gain access to the specialist magics they may need to carry out non-stereotypical social roles. So, how do Flamal and Argan Argar worshipping clans allow their women to access the husband-deities, if they don't let them join the main cult directly. One answer might be that they do let them join, and just accept the fact that their husband deity magic won't be as good, which was what I was postulating here.

On the whole, I'd prefer strange subcults or minor goddesses for these women to worship, rather than assume that they just become plain vanilla Vingans or whatever, which doesn't mean that they do, of course.

Alexei



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