Divine By Mistake: Chapter 6

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: So we're now in the actual magical land. Time for things to REALLY take a turn.

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[sansanotp]

So Cast is obviously going off of how Epona was adopted by the Romans, but she seems to forget quite a bit. Epona was originally combined with Cybele, a harvest goddess, and later became the protector of the Calvary. She wasn't this all knowing super gentle, women are awesome goddess. She was a warrior.

Also, the whole "the ClanFintan" thing is based on calling the leader of a clan "the (insert clan name here" like "the Mackenzie" in Outlander. But you drop the clan part, he knows what clan he is, he doesn't need to be reminded.

And from what I gather, there were some priests in the ancient world who did live in complexes by their temples, but not actually in the temple. The most famous would be the Vestal Virgins, who were housed separately from the public so that they would, you know, remain virgins. One of their duties was drawing water from a spring sacred to Vesta, not using it as a jacuzzi because Vesta would fry their ass in a second for such blatant sacrilege.

[carakasla]

*raises hand* From what I gather, while the early concept of a thong has been around since the beginning of clothing, the idea of a woman wearing a thong is actually insanely recent, like in the last century recent. In Celtic proto-England/Wales based in thousands of years ago? It would be the men wearing the thong, since they were originally designed to keep their dangly bits from...dangling painfully whole running or working or whatever. Rhiannon/Shannon probably would have actually gone commando, if she couldn't wear heavy pantaloons for whatever reason

[zelda_queen]

Oh, wow, thanks! I never knew that about thongs.

Parthalona, near as we've been shown thus far, eternally has a pleasant Spring/Summer comfortably warm climate, to justify folks walking around with little to no clothing on. Yes. Like I say, tailor-made Suetopia.

The trouble is, Shannon seems to treat everyone else like they're the versions of them from her dimension (which leads to some...uncomfortable implications later, when it comes to Alanna and the AU of Susanne's husband). In the second book, Shannon thinks there are similarities between 16-year-old Rhiannon and her own teenage self, but it's treated like *Shannon* grew up to be a reasonable adult because SHE wasn't spoiled. So basically, it's whatever PC wants.

[star_dragon5]

*flails* CENTAURS ARE GREEK, DUMBASS! (Not you, Zelda.) PICK A MYTHOLOGY AND STICK WITH IT!

...Oh, who am I kidding. This is P. C. Cast, the lady under the impression that Nyx and Sekhmet are the same goddess. x.x

[sotnosen93]

"There is plenty of artwork of that Rhiannon in our world."

The link doesn't cover the whole word "artwork". It still works just fine, but it'll probably look nicer if it encompasses the whole word.

"Etain was basically a human trophy with no qualifiers besides being beautiful, while her romantic rival is a villain who's killed off!"

I didn't know you were into Rejected Princesses! -sisfist-

"Shannon notes that Alanna begins to walk “she had something stuck way up her butt."

Shouldn't there be a "like" after "walk"?

"It's a decent length, something actually happened, and leaving off with the reveal that Shannon is marrying centaur of all things would be a great hook."

There's an "a" missing between "marrying" and "centaur".

"What next, is Shannon going to wonder if there are prep and goth vamires?"

"Vampires" is misspelled.

Sorry for being all boring and basically only commenting with spelling corrections XD