[Glorantha] Re: Free weddings

[Julian Lord]

Peter :

> Donald Oddy:
>
> >DO>> 1. Ernalda's marriage to Orlanth was a myth shaking event. It was
> > >>    the first time a marriage was not arranged for the couple.
>
> >JW>Really? What do you base that on?
>
> >I'm basing it on the myth of Umath and Asrelia where they were
> >not allowed to marry (ST pg.198/9). This implies arranged
> >marriages to me and that is consistant with Yemic attitudes.
>
> That two people are not allowed to marry does not necessarily
> mean that marriages are arranged.

I really have to agree with Peter:

Anyway, free marriage was probably invented in the Blue Age, although
it would only have started to have a negative aspect in the Golden
Age.

Free marriage was the norm, not the exception, in the early cosmogonic Ages...

In several places, the early entities are described as joining
together with complete freedom, in fact the birtht of Umath was the
first time ever this freedom involved some negative consequences...

Julian Lord