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> Well, Asrelia isn't fertile,
Sure she is, or was.
She's the mother of Ernalda, Esrola and Maran.
The fact that she is old and post menopausal does not change ther
connection with fertility, any more than it makes a virginal Vorian
maiden "nonfertile."
> and her inseparable sister Ty Kora Tek
> isn't particularly nice.
Nor particularly nasty. She is just a horder of all things valuable. Or put more benevolently, the preserver of such.
> All is not sweetness and light in the Loom House,
Correct.
Why would we expect it to be?
Neither are the gods all hostile and destructive.
AND A BIT MORE ALONG THESE LINES: Quoting parental_unit_2 <parental_unit_2_at_lq8RsNmaj_EKxDSk6cqN7DXwFRZh8PvRO_8_WzIkBjQDpNg8Oshonja-TRkFnlTCJ_F3GaNQGfBuQ6-vVhhfnA.yahoo.invalid>:
>
>> There seems to be a major gender equation for the
>> Heortlings: Storm Acts, Earth endures. To put it in binary terms
>>
>> MALE : STORM : ACTION :: FEMALE : EARTH : ENDURANCE
>
> Waitaminit -- Maran Gor is the Active Earth, and Babeester Gor is an
> Earth goddess who does not endure suffering, but avenges it. Only if
> you equate "female" and "earth" with Ernalda does the above hold.
John's equation holds true for the Orlanthi All.
But, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT, each of those generalities also has a
touch of the opposite within it. It's that little dot of yang in the
yin half circle, and vice versa.
So there is a segment of activity and violence within the feminine,
and also a segment of passivity and healing in the masculine.
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