>Hope? Of course. Expect? Yeah, after all, when the author expresses
>displeasure at an idea it doesn't tend to appear. Rule Out? Nope.
>Polytheistic mythos have involved many MANY 'ew' moments, incest being
>not as high on the list as some others <IMHO YMMV> Indeed, I still remember disrupting my sophomore-year English class by lurching to my feet and blurting, "A swan?!?!?" during a class-period reading assignment involving the many adventures of Zeus.
(I believe it was incidents like that which led Zoner to half-jokingly say in this very thread, "Yeah, it's not Greek myth." :)
Oh, and I'd just like to take this moment to go "Ha!" at your assertion that authorial displeasure with a concept prevents that concept from prevailing. Sometimes true, perhaps even often - but nowhere near reliable enough to base an axiom on. I didn't particularly like the way the middle of Christmas Rose turned out events-wise (though I am quite pleased with the execution), just to name one relatively recent example.
>On a tangential note, a 'jealous' mother may not have 'designs' on
>their offspring, but often she will still chase off potential mates as
>'not good enough for my baby'
This is true, and granted; but it's certainly not an issue in the case in question. Skuld's rather taken a shine to Our Heroine. :)
--G.
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