From: Pam Carlson (carlsonp@wolfenet.com)
Date: Thu 14 Aug 1997 - 00:45:59 EEST
> When you place an allied spirit into an animal what happens to that
> animals spirit?
Another interpretation of an "allied spirit" is "awakened animal". Often
an animal ally is simply a real animal made aware by the deity, and tied to
the worshipper by spiritual means. Thus the Shadow cat's spirit remains,
it is just elevated to a higher, more communicative level. THis is MGF for
all us animal lovers, as we the allies still retain all their previous
loveable habits. (ie, stealing chickens, marking territory, begging for
food and finding lost kids. Noe they are just more effective at it.
Paul H. says:
> In the RW menses are effected by the moon. A woman on earth doesn't have
one period a month she has one every 28 days (approx.) more or less because
of the RW moon. We don't know and can never know whether women six thousand
years ago all had their periods within a week of a full moon.
Wow, am I missing what you're trying to say here? It CAN"T be that the RW
moon has any effect on human fertility cycles. (Other, perhaps, than the
full moon makes it easier for humans to see at night.) Earth's animals
have a wide variety of fertility cycles, all of them influenced by the
animals' metabolisms, seasonal reproduction strategies, and the structure
of the uterus and the hormone cycle. None of this has anything to do with
the relative positions of the earth, the sun, and a large chunk of rock
that orbits the earth.
If the moon did have any real effect, why should only some animals be
influenced by the lunar cycle? What about all those animals with an annual
cycle? A biannual cycle? A six week cycle, or (in the case a many
rodents), a four day cycle?
I'm afraid the 28 day fertility cycle of humans and the 28 day lunar cycle
is simply a great coincidence. (Besides, 28 days is only a mean. The
range for women's cycles is between 26 and 30 days.) This coincidence has
became the foundation of many myths, but that's about it.
THis has never come up in any of our campaigns. We simply assume that
women cycle ever 28 days or so (4 weeks), and leave it at that. I suppose
one could design a heroquest to change that, but it would be powerful
stuff.
Pam
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