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<blockquote data-quote="David Argall" data-source="post: 781899" data-attributes="member: 4481">Lady Kelvin&quot;Can we agree, however, that &quot;Lady Kelvin&quot; is an hereditary title passed on to Russol Mor's female children?&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; Probably not.&nbsp; While individual females have risen to power in virtually every culture, that power is not passed on to another female.&nbsp; It generally goes to her son or grandson.&nbsp; So Russol Mor's female children and grandchildren would be powerful or powerless depending on who they married, not based on their ancestry.&nbsp; [by the way, Mor may well have over 1000 female descendants, and probably has a good number of destitute among them]&nbsp; &nbsp; The more common pattern of a female in power in ancient societies is that she married the ruler and then took over the power, quite possibly because he was deemed incompetent or he died and left her in charge of the child ruler.&nbsp; In these cases, it required a strong personality on the woman's part to maintain a grip on the power.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This same pattern fits nicely with our picture of Lady Kelvin.&nbsp; She is a strong dominant figure with a will to power.&nbsp; Much better for our picture that she worked her way to power than that she was born into the position.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Argall, post: 781899, member: 4481"] [b]Lady Kelvin[/b] "Can we agree, however, that "Lady Kelvin" is an hereditary title passed on to Russol Mor's female children?" Probably not. While individual females have risen to power in virtually every culture, that power is not passed on to another female. It generally goes to her son or grandson. So Russol Mor's female children and grandchildren would be powerful or powerless depending on who they married, not based on their ancestry. [by the way, Mor may well have over 1000 female descendants, and probably has a good number of destitute among them] The more common pattern of a female in power in ancient societies is that she married the ruler and then took over the power, quite possibly because he was deemed incompetent or he died and left her in charge of the child ruler. In these cases, it required a strong personality on the woman's part to maintain a grip on the power. This same pattern fits nicely with our picture of Lady Kelvin. She is a strong dominant figure with a will to power. Much better for our picture that she worked her way to power than that she was born into the position. [/QUOTE]

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