Fascinating essay. One question, one observation: 1. Hinduism has agricultural gods (Krishna's brother is called Halayudha, w/ plow as a weapon), is there a god who is an horticulturalist/hoe-wielder? 2. unlike African ones, Kerala's matrilineal societies were plow cultures.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1164941895711117312 …
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I have to reread the essay but I recall it touching on latter point. I suspect matrilineal is much weaker than matriarchal. It might just be genealogical bookkeeping with most real power still enjoyed by men. I’d expect hoe culture gods to be much more animistic than abstract.
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You maybe right in that matrilineal families in Kerala often had a property coming down a woman's line but the woman's brother often ran the affairs outside. A sort of sibling power-sharing arrangement where the exact ratio of control b/w the two varied but was formally blessed.
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