Re: Female power in Esrolia and the Empire (was Holy Country)

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:39:30 +1200


At 12:05 AM 7/7/2005 +0000, you wrote:

> >In a message dated 7/07/2005 5:33:57 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time,
> >donald_at_... writes:
> >
> >> It's clearly not
> >> Dara Happa or Carmenia, so it must come from one of the other
> >> major cultures.
> >
> >This argument does not make sense - She is a goddess after all, divinely
> >inspired, not created by a culture. If She can hoist a huge moon into
> >the sky She can change a few opinions, and have a few of Her own. .

>Without the idea of a ruling goddess the Seven Mothers wouldn't
>have created her - they would have created a god.

They didn't know what the end result of the ritual would be. They thought they were bringing a curse upon the Carmanian Empire.

>Even if she is
>a goddess who always existed and the 7M found how to worship her
>there must have been myths about her.

There are.

>Those myths are clearly not
>Dara Happen or Carmenian in origin.

How so? Dara Happan has mythology of woman's rule (Mastina) while the Carmanians/Pelandans have myths about the women's tribe.

--Peter Metcalfe

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