"The sun Korych had now cleared the eastern heights and cast dazzling spears over the world. Brechdan saluted it, as was his hereditary right." (p. 22)
His right? His hereditary right? Brechdan Ironrede is the Hand of the Vach Ynvory and has just touched his brow to acknowledge a sentry who slapped his boots with his tail and a gardener who folded his arms and bent his head. They are not slaves but clients who must be accorded their dignity.
But (I argue) the sun shines on everyone. Every conscious being has a right to salute it as I do every morning, in the words of the Rig Veda:
"We meditate on the lovely light of the god, Savitri:
"May it stimulate our thoughts!"
-Rig Veda.
Roidhunate ideology begins wrong, with this hereditary right of the Hands, and continues wrong with its exclusivist God, favoring only the Race.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
In fairness even to Brechdan Ironrede, a being I EMPHATICALLY disagree with, I think you may be missing some points. This saluting of the sun by Brechdan, as was his hereditary right, might date beck to times when the sun was worshiped as a god by the still polytheistic Wildwidh Ocean Merseians. And to when the Hands of the Vachs might also have been priests. So I can see this saluting of the sun by Brechdan as simply a relic from those days in the past.
And I certainly agree with your criticism of the exclusivist view Merseians took of "the God" and the ideology of racial supremacism dominating the Roidhunate.
Ad astra! Sean
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