[Glorantha] Matriarchy

From: Donald R. Oddy <donald>
Date: Thu Jul 6 02:00:21 2006


In message <C0D11314.66E6%aelarsen@mac.com> Andrew Larsen writes:

> The Esrolians may also be matrilocal, that is to say, the husband
>marries into the wife's family, moves to her family property, and adopts the
>worship of her family gods and spirits.

It's clear from TR that some Sartarite clans tend to be matrilocal. Indeed one of the recognised types of marriage is precisely this. Given that it is called an "Esrolian Marriage" I expect it is the commonest type in Esrolia. I don't think that all Esrolian marriages are this type.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
Received on Wed 05 Jul 2006 - 22:56:19 EEST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Wed 18 Jul 2007 - 23:38:05 EEST