From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 05 Sep 1994 - 22:23:17 EEST
Alison Place:
> For instance, I
> don't think that Vinga would be scared to marry if she met a man who
> pleased her sufficiently. He would just have to take her as she is,
> with a propensity for independence, self-reliance and doing what she
> thinks fit for her.
Let's all recall that while the Orlanthi "norm" is for the husband to take the "lead" role in marriage (wife lives in husband's stead, children are of his clan, etc), it's not hardwired that way, and the roles explitly _can_ be reversed. BTW, David D., I assume that what you say about Ralian wives in re: geasa also hold true for "Esrolian" type marriages (or "Wife and underhusband", whatever those ones are called), and equally doesn't hold for the wife in such cases.
> To reply to Alex Ferguson (5956), our festival ended up on Aldrya's day
> in a roundabout way. Ian mixed up Bless Crops, or Bless Earth, or
> whatever it's called, with Sunripen, which must be cast on that day.
Due to the vagueness of the RQ3 cult writeup ("spring", indeed: is this a RQ-Earth escapee, Sandy?), I'm not sure whether Sunripen is supposed to be cast on Voria's HHD, Freeze/Disorder/Sea (first day of Sea season), or on Flamal's HHD, Water/Fertility/Sea. Could sensibly be either really.
Part of my motivation in querying this is that I don't see Aldrya :: agriculture as being a very natural connection. Possible, granted, as part of the planting ritual may be "placating" the earth spirits on whom you're about to inflict this hideous plague of monoculture. This holds less true of Flamal, though, as he's less woodland-specific, even if the elves are his main (organised) worshippers.
Alex.
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