Not anything about my cousins, but such matches were acceptable for much more of history than sibling matches.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DebetEsse - Apr 13, 2005 11:50:46 am PDT #3175 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
-t - Apr 13, 2005 11:51:34 am PDT #3176 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Were there other brothers?
Adam and Eve had 33 sons and 23 daughters, according to Josephus. Who turned out to be right about Masada when no one believed him, so, hey, maybe he knew.
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2005 11:52:23 am PDT #3177 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Adam and Eve had 33 sons and 23 daughters, according to Josephus. Who turned ou to be right about Masada when no one believed him, so, hey, maybe he knew.
So 10 of his sons knew not of womanly affection?
Gudanov - Apr 13, 2005 11:52:59 am PDT #3178 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
So 10 of his sons knew not of womanly affection?
Well, 1 got knocked off.
Jessica - Apr 13, 2005 11:53:05 am PDT #3179 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There's a fairly famous pagan essay entitled "We Are The Other People" that addresses the whole incest/Eden thing. (In the context of How To Get Jehovah's Witnesses To Leave You Alone.)
Betsy HP - Apr 13, 2005 11:53:40 am PDT #3180 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
At some point, the sons of Earth married the daughters of Men.
Betsy HP - Apr 13, 2005 11:53:43 am PDT #3181 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
GAH. Why am I big with the double-post?
§ ita § - Apr 13, 2005 11:53:45 am PDT #3182 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So 10 of his sons knew not of womanly affection?
Line marriages.
IJS.
-t - Apr 13, 2005 11:54:36 am PDT #3183 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
At some point, the sons of Earth married the daughters of Men.
I think that might be where the giants came in.
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2005 11:54:55 am PDT #3184 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Maybe the 10 9 men went off and formed a gay commune.