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Re: My coming out as a conlanger

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, October 5, 2002, 12:12
At 23:44 2002-10-04 -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:

>In addition, some societies had an >indirect succession, where the king's sister's son inherited the >position.
This is the case with the Sakya hierarch in Tibet. The hierach himself is always a monk, so he has to be succeeded by a sibling's son. Usually a brother's son AFAIK, but I don't know if a sister's son is unheard of. /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)