From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue 18 Jul 2000 - 03:02:03 EEST
Nick Eden:
>These days Aldrya seems to have an awful lot of Ancestor
>Worship about 'her', and the shamaic aspect was always part of how
>Aldrya was worshipped, but I'm finding myself greatly doubting the
>concept of Aldryami ancestors in the first place.
I wouldn't think of them as Grandpa as most humans would
conceive of an ancestor as being. Instead an elf IMO
considers a Sacred Oak or a Stump of the World Tree to
be his ancestor, in the sense of "from that tree came
this part of the woods", tree-hugging in other words.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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