Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/23/06 10:20 AM To SKZB List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Maximilian Wilson wrote: >> >> >> On 1/23/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Note; Lanya e'Kieron herself was a female, and the "founder" of the >> >> > e'Lanya line. Hence, her descendants used their mother's name, rather >> than >> >> > their father's. >> >> > >> >> >> >> [blinks] Somehow, I wasn't aware of that. >> > >> >Me neither. Wonder if there's any evidence. >> > >> >I would have guessed that one decided one's line based on one's own >> >character and relationship to both parents in cases of mixed lineage. >> >> Textev for Lanya e'Kieron comes from TPG, pages 402-405 of the paperback >> edition. (It's contained in a discussion between Uttrik and Kathana >> e'Merich'Chala). > >AFB - are you saying that the line was entirely matrilineal, or only >refuting the idea that lines are entirely patrilineal? The above sounds >like the former. Sorry about the confusion. I was *not* trying to say that the entire line was matrilineal, but rather that Lanya's direct descendents used their mothers name. Succeding generations may have switched to a male-line tradition, it is not made clear. But the fact that the head of the line was female neccessitates at least one generation of matrilineal naming. Majikjon