Jerri
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Sending you and all readers of your works my best Winterfair greetings. And in the world of the Five Gods, this should be the day of a Father's Day celebration. Do the two celebrations have much in common?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Thank you for the kind sentiments!
All the solstice celebrations in our world's countries and histories make up a hugely varied range of activities. Father's Day, winter solstice, in the world of the five gods should likewise have a lot of regional and local variation. Because of the god's association with justice, maturity and aging, and death, I'd expect it is more solemn than one would guess extrapolating from, say, the Roman Saturnalia, but then there is that more fundamental association with male fertility to leaven things. So the celebrations might be a trifle schizoid, maybe Father's Day and Father's Night (or perhaps Father's Day Eve) with the latter more ribald. Being the commencement of the season, it would run more to honoring new and young fathers; grandfathers would go to the last days of the season, just before the Daughter's Day of spring equinox.
Ta, L.
Thank you for the kind sentiments!
All the solstice celebrations in our world's countries and histories make up a hugely varied range of activities. Father's Day, winter solstice, in the world of the five gods should likewise have a lot of regional and local variation. Because of the god's association with justice, maturity and aging, and death, I'd expect it is more solemn than one would guess extrapolating from, say, the Roman Saturnalia, but then there is that more fundamental association with male fertility to leaven things. So the celebrations might be a trifle schizoid, maybe Father's Day and Father's Night (or perhaps Father's Day Eve) with the latter more ribald. Being the commencement of the season, it would run more to honoring new and young fathers; grandfathers would go to the last days of the season, just before the Daughter's Day of spring equinox.
Ta, L.
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Holly Rhea
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I am trying to find the title of a book I read maybe 10 years ago. Probably a harlequin presents. All I remember is that a woman that wants a baby possibly hires a man to spend months at her house, seems like a remote farm with land, to get her pregnant. I think he was a bit of a stranger. I do remember her getting her cycle and his thoughts on how pitiful she was and that it drained her energy. Thx for any info?
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