[Glorantha] Initiation for heortling women

donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk (Donald R. Oddy) wrote:

> Given that Ernalda is supposed to be passive rather than active
> the "I Fought" part seems rather inappropriate. Perhaps the women's
> initiation is more on enduring and surviving chaos rather than
> fighting it. So, yes they experience IFWW but see it from a
> different angle - "I Endured, We Won".

Passive? She's DEAD before the Dawn. If they're assuming Ernalda's role, new women should experience death and rebirth, more analogous to the Lightbringer's Quest than to IFWW. The mystery would tie into the idea of rebirth-and-immortality-through-one's-children.

Of course, only the majority of women would end up as Ernalda-only types. Others (adventurers) would have later initiations to other religions, say Babs Gor, where they'd experience the same events in different ways and from different viewpoints.

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