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BS: Ethics
| GUEST,Clint Keller | 14 Nov 04 - 03:20 PM | |
| mack/misophist | 14 Nov 04 - 11:56 PM | |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ethics From: GUEST,Clint Keller Date: 14 Nov 04 - 03:20 PM "Incest wasn't forbidden in all cases. On occasion it was mandatory. ie. Pharoahs in Egypt." It was mandatory for the pharaohs for reasons of politics & power, as I understand it. Egypt then was a union of tribes, some with patrilineal & some with matrilineal descent, and to keep the pharaohship in the family siblings had to marry each other, But the common people had to marry outsiders. Politics trumps ethics again. clint |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ethics From: mack/misophist Date: 14 Nov 04 - 11:56 PM The reason was political and legal. The right to the throne was passed through the female, not the male. Sort of like Mosaic Law where the mother determines Jewishness not the father. I'm told that's because you always know who the mother is.... Egypt also had the example of it's gods. ie Isis and Osiris. |
