[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 340

In message <20051206234913.52390.qmail@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Ian Cooper writes:
>>As for the 4075 Ernalda initiates (average of 272
>>per clan), let's make the following breakdown:
>> 1699 Allmother (average of 113 per clan)
>> 1019 Esrola (average of 68 per clan)
>> 815 Healer (average of 54 per clan)
>> 339 Ty Kora Tek/Asrelia (average of 23 per clan).
>
>did you take account of the goddess cults as growth?
>
> Healer = unmarried women
> Mother = married women
> Ty Kora Tek/Asrelia = post-menopause
> I would assmume Esrola for the more specialist and thus rarer
> aspect here.

Assuming this split between married and unmarried women and 30 years of fertility it means that the average age for marriage is around 20. Rather later than in similar RW societies and much later than has been implied in previous discussions.

I think this later marriage makes sense in that it gives time for the young woman to learn adult skills so she is less of an unknown quantity in the marriage negotiations. It also occurs to me that they may tend to marry younger men - the idea being that marriage gets the men to settle down.

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