Metagenetics and Me

[Synnthetika]

So I've read McNallen's article, but I still don't get it. I'm confused as to what he's trying to get at. In his article, it seems like he already expects the reader to have background information on what Metagenetics are. If that's the case, where can I find said information?

If not, then could someone break it down for me? Or redirect me to someplace that does break it down? (Everytime I google Metagenetics, I just get McNallen's stuff).  

[maenad nuri]

moved to a better spot  

[TeaDidikai]

Metagenetics is, in essence, the notion that for whatever reason, the gods of a people are bound to the line of descendants.

Some religions attribute this to oaths. Some to the gods personal preference. Some to the notion that the people themselves are literally the descendants of said gods.

When it comes to things like the Gael, it's by oath that encompassed the land and it's people. The gods could have phrased it differently. They could have limited it to the land itself, thus opening the tradition to anyone who lived in Ireland. They could have bound it in total to the people themselves, thus making it possible to easily practice it abroad by people of proper descent.

There are gods that have a mythos suggesting that they are literally the biological parents of a race of people. This makes me twitchy personally, but I have to acknowledge that it's part of some world folklore.  

[TeaDidikai]

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Would the twitchy stem from this possibly being used to pass themselves off as better, or as Gods?

To be painfully honest, it comes form being twitchy about people thinking of the Rroma as not human- and thus, it's legit to murder us, because it wouldn't be murder if we aren't human.  

[Synnthetika]

TeaDidikai

Metagenetics is, in essence, the notion that for whatever reason, the gods of a people are bound to the line of descendants.

Some religions attribute this to oaths. Some to the gods personal preference. Some to the notion that the people themselves are literally the descendants of said gods.

When it comes to things like the Gael, it's by oath that encompassed the land and it's people. The gods could have phrased it differently. They could have limited it to the land itself, thus opening the tradition to anyone who lived in Ireland. They could have bound it in total to the people themselves, thus making it possible to easily practice it abroad by people of proper descent.

There are gods that have a mythos suggesting that they are literally the biological parents of a race of people. This makes me twitchy personally, but I have to acknowledge that it's part of some world folklore.

So it's dependent on the specifics of the belief system if it was land, people, or literally descendants. How do you know?  

[TeaDidikai]

Synnthetika

So it's dependent on the specifics of the belief system if it was land, people, or literally descendants. How do you know?

The lore itself. The Annals contain the oaths of the Gael.
The folklore of the Rroma contain the oaths made by Del, as well as the tales of the conception of the Rroma people.
The Torah contains the establishment of the covenant with Abraham and Moses.

The list is pretty short.
In the case of Shinto, there are direct wards against non-Japanese people, addressing those who aren't Japanese as Oni.  

[aoijea23487]

the only relevant thing i can think of is Mars and the Romans, but worship of Mars is open and not limited to only the Romans.  

[TeaDidikai]

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Ah yes, that mess.

Some of the mythological parallels are completely contradictory to boot.

I can't honestly say which I personally appreciate, because the kind of revisionism that surrounds Beng is really complicated.