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Not exactly; notice the following passage: > What is striking is that 74% have no objection to the offspring of a woman emperor succeeding to the throne. If th
by Lazare 7y ago
Not exactly; notice the following passage:
> What is striking is that 74% have no objection to the offspring of a woman emperor succeeding to the throne. If this were to happen, it would be an historical first.
Women have succeeded to the throne, but they have been succeeded in turn by offspring of an earlier male emperor. Every emperor (in theory) has been able to trace their ancestry back to the sun goddess through the paternal line.
Tracing ancestry through the maternal line as well would be a significant change.
- taneq 7y ago> sun goddess > paternal line Hmmm. I mean, I guess it depends whether you count her sons as the first generation or not, but still, why would deity-ness (is there a better word for this? Deism?) pass from her to her sons and thence only to their sons?
- Simple_Guy 7y agosame reason all humans can trace themselves back to the first genetic goop which derived from abiogenesis.
- vermilingua 7y agoDivinity. And because, well, that’s how it works. That’s the very nature of tradition, especially religious tradition; it is because it is.
- Lazare 7y agoI mean, the real answer is probably that the rules were developed in the context of a patriarchal culture. But they're hardly alone; many countries have historically practiced agnatic primogeniture which works quite similarly.