[Glorantha] Matriarchy

> My main concern is the way that nearly all portrayals of Matriarchal
> society in popular culture are spurious at best and often ridiculous.

I'm not sure what you are going for, but here's an example from the real world.

During our parallel to the Viking era (we didn't do the ship raiding thing) the finns were divided into large tribes with no strong central leadership (even on the tribal level). The society mostly centerer around wealthy farmers (big houses and lots of land) as sort of free carls.

In this society it was the top woman of the house (the wife) that wielded the wealth and power. The traditional woman's dress contained much of the ready cash in jewelry, and was impressive and expensive othervice too. The men were often away for weeks or months at a time hunting and fighting, so it made sense for the women to be the stowards who bossed the workforse around and run the house.

Parhaps not quite a matriarchy, but one could argue that the women held more wealth and power than the men.

        -Adept Received on Tue 04 Jul 2006 - 09:51:40 EEST