Ghyll:Rejah - Revision history

Morbus Iff at 13:33, 30 September 2005

2005-09-30T13:33:38Z

Morbus Iff: Fixing links to point to Iganefta-on-the-Sea.

2005-07-26T23:58:19Z

Fixing links to point to Iganefta-on-the-Sea.

Jcowan: Clarifying reference

2005-03-16T16:49:17Z

Clarifying reference

Jcowan: Scholarly comment

2005-03-10T19:38:23Z

Scholarly comment

Morbus Iff: "Copy-editing" and associated mumbo jumbo.

2005-02-14T15:22:17Z

"Copy-editing" and associated mumbo jumbo.

DrBacchus: IV, I tell you! IV!

2005-02-11T01:14:35Z

IV, I tell you! IV!

Jcowan: Linking myself

2005-02-08T21:27:33Z

Linking myself

Jcowan: First draft

2005-02-08T21:20:47Z

First draft

Jcowan: Dib and quotations

2005-02-07T05:54:32Z

Dib and quotations

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Dibbed, with the usual random quotations. --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 00:54, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)

With respect to services of faith, during formal gatherings of organized service to [[Berell]], the oldest member of the group present usually officiates. This leader, or [[rejah]], will perform such actions as leading the speaking of the credo, asking the present members for their perceptions of reality, and the symbolic refusal of name and status. Gatherings of this type rarely take more than an hour and only happen once every two weeks or less to allow members the privacy they desire.

Suddenly, at the age of 28, in -266 [[EC]], he very unexpectedly got himself elected to the post of [[rejah]]. He took on the rather pompous title of "The Great and Grand [[Odgar IV]], Rejah and Ruler of All That I Survey", and established what he referred to ever after as "The Court of Odgar IV."

"Farming the sheep wasn't all fun, games, and husbandry. Our oral history suggests revolts... that some sheep grew tired of their Ghyllian masters and marched to the western cliffs to throw themselves into the sea rather than living in slavery." ''('Gesticulating wildly' would be a rather inadequate description for the pantomime [[M'Kev D'wal]] played before us.'') "Our ancestors realized how much we needed the beasts: warmth during mountain excavations, storage of distilled water during the summer droughts, cuddling when the local [[rejah]] wasn't around... they strived to please the sheep more than they did each other. And we came to understand the sheep more, their needs, their desires, their harmonies."

"The sheep... they didn't like being trained, herded or even sheared. And if you think they're docile animals, you've yet to have one ram their head into you." ''([[M'Kev D'wal]] offered to demonstrate, but we reminded him of his forehead scars.)'' "It took two months and three deaths before our ancestors realized a certain type of crafted rod caused complacency in the little buggers. After a few decades, our [[rejah]] tells us the beasts truly succumbed, and the rods were no longer needed. The [[Rod of Quiends|only remaining rod]] we know of is stored in your [[Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy]]."

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 The term is also used in the sense of the leader of a [[Berell|Berellian]] meeting.  Why this is so, is known only to Berellians, if anybody; and [[User:Jcowan|your author]] is not a Berellian.
-'''Citations''':  [[Odgar IV]], [[suspension]], [[Vemish]].
+'''Citations''':  [[Odgar IV]], [[Suspension]], [[Vemish]].
 --[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 16:20, 8 Feb 2005 (EST)

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 Rejahs also answer questions (but not [[Hive-Lord]] ones) as a sideline of their primary dispute-settling functions, since many disputes arise out of questions.  The answers are of doubtful worth, but "generally better / Than dumb looks", as the poet [[Arariax]] has it.  In the distant past, those who asked rejahs to answer Hive-Lord questions were generally punished by [[suspension]]; but in more modern times, they are usually just called nithings before the folk.  A few enlightened rejahs have been known to consult with scholars in difficult cases, but in general the principle of [[Jemima and the Square Do-Gooders|Making Shit Up]] is sacred with rejahs as a class.
-Some rejahs also act as regulators of morals; they investigate those who are caught canoodling in unsuitable locales, and post their names on the Disgraceful List on the public bulletin-board.  In some cases, an Honorable List is maintained as well, for those who over a period of years demonstrate their decorum.  Urban rejahs do not usually do either of these things, except in highly conservative [[Iganefta|Old Thungerbarg]].
+Some rejahs also act as regulators of morals; they investigate those who are caught canoodling in unsuitable locales, and post their names on the Disgraceful List on the public bulletin-board.  In some cases, an Honorable List is maintained as well, for those who over a period of years demonstrate their decorum.  Urban rejahs do not usually do either of these things, except in highly conservative [[Iganefta-on-the-Sea|Old Thungerbarg]].
 The term is also used in the sense of the leader of a [[Berell|Berellian]] meeting.  Why this is so, is known only to Berellians, if anybody; and [[User:Jcowan|your author]] is not a Berellian.

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−	The office of '''rejah''' is one of the most important, if also one of the more modest, in all Ghyll, and is found universally throughout the civilized world and even in [[Kebro-shepenor]]. A rejah is elected for every hamlet, village, market town, and urban neighborhood by a simple majority vote of the resident adult females and two-thirds of the males, chosen by lot before the election. The reason for this peculiar voting scheme is lost to history. The principal duty of a rejah is to settle disputes brought before him (most rejahs are male) by his neighbors. Consequently, rejahs are usually chosen from among the most well-balanced of the social outcasts of the locality, since they are believed to be the most impartial, if also the most cranky.	+	The office of '''rejah''' is one of the most important, if also one of the more modest, in all Ghyll, and is found universally throughout the civilized world and even in [[Kebro-shepenor]] (according to [[M'Kev D'wal]], at least). A rejah is elected for every hamlet, village, market town, and urban neighborhood by a simple majority vote of the resident adult females and two-thirds of the males, chosen by lot before the election. The reason for this peculiar voting scheme is lost to history. The principal duty of a rejah is to settle disputes brought before him (most rejahs are male) by his neighbors. Consequently, rejahs are usually chosen from among the most well-balanced of the social outcasts of the locality, since they are believed to be the most impartial, if also the most cranky.

	The most famous rejah in recent Ghyll history is undoubtedly [[Odgar IV\|Odgar Iv]] (the capital V commonly seen is a folly without warrant), who held the post for an unprecedented 27 years. Most rejahs are out of office within ten years as a result of a recall election or cirrhosis of the liver, whichever comes first. Odgar's longevity was probably a result of his second career as a musician and composer, which required him to stay sober in order to put pen to paper or finger to flute.		The most famous rejah in recent Ghyll history is undoubtedly [[Odgar IV\|Odgar Iv]] (the capital V commonly seen is a folly without warrant), who held the post for an unprecedented 27 years. Most rejahs are out of office within ten years as a result of a recall election or cirrhosis of the liver, whichever comes first. Odgar's longevity was probably a result of his second career as a musician and composer, which required him to stay sober in order to put pen to paper or finger to flute.

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	The capital V may be a folly without warrant, but it is the fact that Odgar IV's parents always used a capital V, and that he himself insisted on that spelling, which caused the mispronunciations which shaped his young life. To change that now seems to make light of the emotional distress caused by his pig-headedness. --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 20:14, 10 Feb 2005 (EST)		The capital V may be a folly without warrant, but it is the fact that Odgar IV's parents always used a capital V, and that he himself insisted on that spelling, which caused the mispronunciations which shaped his young life. To change that now seems to make light of the emotional distress caused by his pig-headedness. --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 20:14, 10 Feb 2005 (EST)
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		+	I can't help it. The facts are the facts. --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 14:38, 10 Mar 2005 (EST)

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 '''Citations''':  [[Odgar IV]], [[suspension]], [[Vemish]].
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+--[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 16:20, 8 Feb 2005 (EST)
 The capital V may be a folly without warrant, but it is the fact that Odgar IV's parents always used a capital V, and that he himself insisted on that spelling, which caused the mispronunciations which shaped his young life. To change that now seems to make light of the emotional distress caused by his pig-headedness. --[[User:DrBacchus|DrBacchus]] 20:14, 10 Feb 2005 (EST)

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		+	The capital V may be a folly without warrant, but it is the fact that Odgar IV's parents always used a capital V, and that he himself insisted on that spelling, which caused the mispronunciations which shaped his young life. To change that now seems to make light of the emotional distress caused by his pig-headedness.
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-Dibbed, with the usual random quotations.  --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 00:54, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
+The office of '''rejah''' is one of the most important, if also one of the more modest, in all Ghyll, and is found universally throughout the civilized world and even in [[Kebro-shepenor]].  A rejah is elected for every hamlet, village, market town, and urban neighborhood by a simple majority vote of the resident adult females and two-thirds of the males, chosen by lot before the election.  The reason for this peculiar voting scheme is lost to history.  The principal duty of a rejah is to settle disputes brought before him (most rejahs are male) by his neighbors.  Consequently, rejahs are usually chosen from among the most well-balanced of the social outcasts of the locality, since they are believed to be the most impartial, if also the most cranky.
-With respect to services of faith, during formal gatherings of organized service to [[Berell]], the oldest member of the group present usually officiates.  This leader, or [[rejah]], will perform such actions as leading the speaking of the credo, asking the present members for their perceptions of reality, and the symbolic refusal of name and status.   Gatherings of this type rarely take more than an hour and only happen once every two weeks or less to allow members the privacy they desire.
+The most famous rejah in recent Ghyll history is undoubtedly [[Odgar IV|Odgar Iv]] (the capital V commonly seen is a folly without warrant), who held the post for an unprecedented 27 years.  Most rejahs are out of office within ten years as a result of a recall election or cirrhosis of the liver, whichever comes first.  Odgar's longevity was probably a result of his second career as a musician and composer, which required him to stay sober in order to put pen to paper or finger to flute.
-Suddenly, at the age of 28, in -266 [[EC]], he very unexpectedly got himself elected to the post of [[rejah]]. He took on the rather pompous title of "The Great and Grand [[Odgar IV]], Rejah and Ruler of All That I Survey", and established what he referred to ever after as "The Court of Odgar IV."
+Rejahs also answer questions (but not [[Hive-Lord]] ones) as a sideline of their primary dispute-settling functions, since many disputes arise out of questions.  The answers are of doubtful worth, but "generally better / Than dumb looks", as the poet [[Arariax]] has it.  In the distant past, those who asked rejahs to answer Hive-Lord questions were generally punished by [[suspension]]; but in more modern times, they are usually just called nithings before the folk.  A few enlightened rejahs have been known to consult with scholars in difficult cases, but in general the principle of [[Jemima and the Square Do-Gooders|Making Shit Up]] is sacred with rejahs as a class.
-"Farming the sheep wasn't all fun, games, and husbandry. Our oral history suggests revolts... that some sheep grew tired of their Ghyllian masters and marched to the western cliffs to throw themselves into the sea rather than living in slavery." ''('Gesticulating wildly' would be a rather inadequate description for the pantomime [[M'Kev D'wal]] played before us.'') "Our ancestors realized how much we needed the beasts: warmth during mountain excavations, storage of distilled water during the summer droughts, cuddling when the local [[rejah]] wasn't around... they strived to please the sheep more than they did each other. And we came to understand the sheep more, their needs, their desires, their harmonies."
+Some rejahs also act as regulators of morals; they investigate those who are caught canoodling in unsuitable locales, and post their names on the Disgraceful List on the public bulletin-board.  In some cases, an Honorable List is maintained as well, for those who over a period of years demonstrate their decorum.  Urban rejahs do not usually do either of these things, except in highly conservative [[Iganefta|Old Thungerbarg]].
-"The sheep... they didn't like being trained, herded or even sheared. And if you think they're docile animals, you've yet to have one ram their head into you." ''([[M'Kev D'wal]] offered to demonstrate, but we reminded him of his forehead scars.)'' "It took two months and three deaths before our ancestors realized a certain type of crafted rod caused complacency in the little buggers. After a few decades, our [[rejah]] tells us the beasts truly succumbed, and the rods were no longer needed. The [[Rod of Quiends|only remaining rod]] we know of is stored in your [[Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy]]."
+The term is also used in the sense of the leader of a [[Berell|Berellian]] meeting.  Why this is so, is known only to Berellians, if anybody; and your author is not a Berellian.