From: Jane Williams (janewill@mail.nildram.co.uk)
Date: Sat 20 Sep 1997 - 21:42:03 EEST
Trying to catch up on rather a lot of Digests here: not only having been
on holiday, but also mysteriously getting unsubscribed in my absence.
Ordering the missing files from the archives meant they're now sorted into
random order, so I'm not going to try to quote specific points here.
As I understand the general discussion, there is a suggestion that any
act of rape, being by definition worship of Thed, may cause the rapist
to become a Thed initiate (and hence a Broo). I can think of a couple of
precendents for this: initiation into Malia by asking for her help
against disease (not quite involuntary, then, assuming the victim knew
the consequences), and the possible initiation into Krjalk described in
the first "Drastic".
Objections seem to be that it isn't, and shouldn't be, possible to
initiate into, say, Humakt just by doing a lot of killing. Therefore, for
consistency, this shouldn't be possible for Thed etc. either.
It occurs to me that the three cults with possible involuntary initiation
have one thing in common. They're all Chaotic. Does it not seem feasible
that *all* Chaotic cults "cheat" by using involuntary initiation, and
that all non-Chaotic cults could, but refuse to do so? Theymight, as I
think someone suggested, send the candidate a dream suggesting that
seeking out initiation might be a good move, but forcing initiation is
akin to spiritual rape: they wouldn't do it.
Jane Williams jane@williams.nildram.co.uk
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~janewill/gloranth/index.shtml
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