Cultural parallells & menstrual cycles

From: Nils Weinander (nilsw@ibm.net)
Date: Tue 12 Aug 1997 - 00:31:33 EEST

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Jane:
> > Daniel:
> > > Just to throw something into all this ancient feely theme: How about
> > > Esrolia=Minoan Crete
> > Nils Weinander: Seconded.
> Make that thirded. Then add Celtic overtones to stop it being a total
> clone.

And some Indus culture city planning.

> > As for alternative parallells, I have always thought
> > of the praxians beings somewhat like the nomad peoples
> > of central Asia (kazak, kirghiz, turkmen etc) rather
> > than native americans.
> Me too. Mainly of course because they're more familiar, but also because
> they *did* invade civilised parts, and very effectively, too. Native
> Americans had the disadvantage of having an ocean in the way.

I'm glad I'm not only one who made this old world
chauvinist "mistake" for familiarity reasons.
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Why does the menstrual cycle of Gloranthan women
have to be tied to a heavenly body? There must be
any number of other mythic/magic correspendences
to make.

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