Peter Larsen wrote:
>
> At 8:45 PM +0000 2/21/02, BEThexton wrote:
> >In Gloranthan terms, clearly it is your own "breath" that protects
> >you from the fierce heat. And this is why men would take saunas so
> >hot you could cook in them, to prove how powerful their own breath
> >is, that it can let them relax and enjoy such conditions. More than
> >machismo, in Glorantha it is probably literally true, so that the
> >most powerful magically can take the most punishing heat.
>
> That's clever. I'm impressed. We've got the Baths and
> purification, we have "breath" and machismo (how do the women deal
> with it? just more earthy, I guess), we have a myth and a group
> Sacred Time ritual, and we have how amazingly free and cool you feel
> on leaving. Taken together, those are a pretty good answer to a
> mytho-cultural question.
>
> Peter Larsen
>
The sauna is a 'man' thing. Just like the Loom House is a woman thing.
And, like the neighborhood pub, the sweat house is a place where one goes to get shut of the womenfolk. =)
Now, I wonder if Santa can bring me some Machismo for Christmas?
Jeff
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