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What Color Is the Sky On Your World?
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What Color Is the Sky On Your World? This is a good place to start describing a fantasy world, in a distant galaxy far, far away, isn't it? What would yours be like?  Today I'm mind visiting Ephaedra, a world just a bit larger than ours and slightly farther from it's sun. The sky is a greener tint of blue than Earth's sky. Something about the different color of light from it's sun. It's inhabited with people very much like us. Intelligent bipeds with an advanced and prosperous civilization. And they look like us, sort of. Two arms, two legs. Six fingers and toes on each. The ideas and rituals of marriage, family, and sexuality evolved on a different path here. (Of course! Or why would my free range libido be going there?) It's said on Ephaedra that a man doesn't just marry a woman, he marries her sisters too. And a woman doesn't just marry a man, she marries his brothers too. In a very literal way. Not that they all live together in one continuous communal orgy. No, no, no. Nothing would ever get done. (Not that wedding parties can't seem like that sometimes but I'm getting ahead of the story.) The bride and groom become husband and wife and are the primary couple in the marriage of course. The sisters become "sister-wives" and the brothers become "brother-husbands". The primary couple go away together, much like our honeymoons, and are the first to share the "bliss of marriage" with each other. This may last as long as a month. After the honeymoon is over the husband will make dates with each of his sister-brides to spend a day with them, sort of like a mini-honeymoon, a "honeyday". It's a bit casual. Usually they do not spend the whole night together. And the wife does the same with each of her brother-husbands. The husband and wife will have their own home, though it's not unusual for another husband or wife to live with them. "Unmarried" sibling-spouses, of course, are free to date and seek a marriage partner of their own (or not). Sexual fidelity within the network of family spouses is expected of married couples and infidelity is somewhat rare. The wedding parties do tend to get quite interesting. There's the bride and groom and any sister-brides and brother-grooms. It could take a while to get through that first kiss. And all the pictures! Once the dancing starts and the booze flows a little, well, there are a LOT of other brother-husbands and sister-wives from both families, some who may not have seen each other in years, all slow dancing in their fancy clothes and having a good time. And married people do what married people do. Of course there are still taboos. Sex with a brother's sister-wife, for example, is thought of something like is thought of here. A brother's wife would be a sister-wife, of course, but not her sisters. They are your brother's sister-wives, not yours. Young siblings, below the age of consent, are strictly off-limits, too. They become essentially sibling-fiancees or sibling-spouses-in-waiting. When they grow old enough they too will have a honeyday with each of their husbands or wives. Divorce is difficult and of course ends all the sibling-marriages as well. Fortunately it doesn't happen too often. That's the place I've been thinking about lately. Ephaedra. Anyone want to go there with me? En-Joy! En-Joy! |
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