>- no correlation - but all the
The human brain is extremely good at spotting patterns. Even patterns that aren't there :)
> The Red Moons 7 day cycle is an epicycle. We might
> not see yet the
> mystic significance of the 28 day cycle, but there
> may be one.
I'm sure there must be - or at least, I'm sure Gloranthans will spot a pattern, even if it isn't there.
> I believe Theyalan months have 5 weeks = 35 days?
There is no such thing as a month, but a season consists of 8 weeks. That's the sort of thing I'd expect to find on the glorantha.com site, let me look.
Yep.
http://www.glorantha.com/library/world/cop-calendar.html
7 days = 1 Week
56 days = 8 weeks = 1 Season
294 days = 42 weeks = 5 seasons + Sacred Time = 1 Year
> Anyway, a lunar week is an
> epicycle within larger cycles - week, month,season,
> year. The Theyalans
> had mystical reasons for them, and the Ernaldans use
> that calendar, and I assume they know best.
With the exception of the "month", yes.
> It strikes me that otherwise ones state of
> fertility would be the same on a given Ernaldan
> festival each year,
If the cycle was a regular 28-day one, yes.
> whereas in fact the Loom House Mysteries may reflect
> this natural cycle
> and include slightly varying roles or chants or
> whatever each
> festival. Dunno. Not a woman, but I can see this
> being involved somehow?
Makes sense to me. You'd want someone at the right point in the cycle for each role.
> Anyway, with magical contraception adjusting cycles,
> hormonal
> imbalances, pco, and other common gynaecological
> issues would be simple,
> and probably taught as minor common magics to
> Ernaldans, or under the
> Ernalda specialised religion keyword?
Also makes good sense. Let's say they have contraception, fertility treatment, hormone balancing, monthly pain killers etc that are about as good as ours today, only done by magic, not by medicine. So that's not 100% reliable, but it's enough to get rid of most little problems. And it means we don't get much of an "alien" feeling when playing.
> Regardless the planned parenthood
> allowed by fertility magics would significantly
> increase the social role
> of women, who strike me a a pretty liberated free
> thinking and powerful lot in Glorantha.
Unless you're in a Solar culture, of course. The whole concept of community child care would help, too. And compared with the medieval grasp of contraception (it's evil, burn her), being able to spend some time not pregnant has got to be good.
> And sexism would die fast, as those who espouse it
> get a good kicking from justly wrathful Vingans.
They also get to starve, as the Earth refuses to feed them. You don't have to be a warrior to have power. In fact, that's not even a particularly effective way of going about it.
> YGMV, but from my brief glance at Heortling marriage
> customs, radical
> equality but separate spheres of influence strike me
> as normative.
That's about right.
> Besides, I see to much sexism and denigration of
> women in RL, and while
> I might stop short of Dworkin the Babeestor Gor, I
> can leave gender
> politics to he real world. In my fantasy escapism
> there is conflict
> between men and women, but it is over things far
> more subtle and mythic than crude sexism.
Yep. As I say, it just isn't an interesting conflict to play with, because it's so common. If it was unusual, then maybe, but it isn't. And stereotyping men as crude, stupid bullies (which usually seems to come out of it) is pretty unfair on men, too.
> Not thought about this much, but as I want to play a
> woman in Fire Tribe
> to examine Heortling society from a different angle,
Sounds interesting. What do you mean by "Fire Tribe", though?
Powered by hypermail