Talk:Weavess/@comment-86.172.240.104-20190717192123

I wonder about the use of "cutting ceremony" in her journal text. When I first heard it (in White Orchard, a conversation between Goidamar/Derven and a neighbour) I thought it was a reference to circumcision (which seemed a bit weird in a culture that had no religious reason to perform) but in this context it's vague. There's reference to hair gathered from "young children," not just boys, and if circumcision was practised as it is in our world, it would happen in the first few weeks of a baby's life, and most babies have very little hair - so donations wouldn't be plentiful, would they?