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Post by Sir Galahad on Nov 19, 2011 23:40:44 GMT
"I did not say she stole it, I merely suggested it was a possibility." Galahad replied. "You would do well to listen better in the future, my lady, as to not offend people by accusing them of saying things that they did not."
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Nov 19, 2011 23:46:10 GMT
"Enough!" Arthur cried. "Please don;t argue, my friends, we have found the artefact, or rather been given it, and that is what matters. It doesn't really matter what you believe about its origins."
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Post by Hallewes on Nov 19, 2011 23:47:02 GMT
"Well Sir, I think that to even have that thought in your head at a time like this is offensive to those that do not follow your faith and that you should save saying things like that outloud when there are those that do not follow your God in the room."
Dina fell silent when Arthur spoke and suddenly found a peice of the wall very interesting.
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Post by Sir Galahad on Nov 19, 2011 23:51:15 GMT
"Galahad, may I ask you something?" Dinadan said with a smirk.
"Yes, you may." Galahad replied arrogantly.
"Is it difficult being right all the time?" Dinadan asked.
"No, not particularly." Galahad replied missing Dinadan's point entirely. "I find it comes naturally."
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Post by King Mark of Cornwall on Nov 20, 2011 0:07:43 GMT
"So what is the Girdle of the Virgin Mary doing in Britain?" said Tristram. "I am a Christian, but even I say that seems unlikely. The Virgin Mary is merely the mother of Christ. She cannot confer immortality, much less her girdle."
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Nov 20, 2011 0:12:09 GMT
"But in this case you are wrong," Morgan said quietly. "I do not understand why it is so hard for you Christians to understand that there are many gods, Galahad. And you in particular were raised on Avalon. Did you never study the teachings of the druids?"
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Post by Hallewes on Nov 20, 2011 0:16:59 GMT
Dindrane said nothing but she gave a small noise of laughter, her gaze remaining on the wall.
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Nov 20, 2011 0:23:14 GMT
"So what is the Girdle of the Virgin Mary doing in Britain?" said Tristram. "I am a Christian, but even I say that seems unlikely. The Virgin Mary is merely the mother of Christ. She cannot confer immortality, much less her girdle." "I don;t know," Arthur sighed. "You might as well wonder how the Holy Grail came to Britain. But then there's that tale that it was brought here by Joseph of Arimathea, who planted his staff at Glastonbury and a tree grew there, what if he brought all the thirteen from Jerusalem?"
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Post by King Mark of Cornwall on Nov 20, 2011 0:44:35 GMT
"I must confess I am confused Sire." replied Tristram. "Galahad says the Girdle of Ceridwen is a Christian relic that just goes by another name. Yet the Fey have it and cherish it and they are not even Christian. Morgan says that there are many gods, implying that Ceridwen, if not an enchantress, is a goddess, which as a Christian believing in the one true god I cannot accept either."
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Post by Sir Galahad on Nov 20, 2011 4:35:51 GMT
"But in this case you are wrong," Morgan said quietly. "I do not understand why it is so hard for you Christians to understand that there are many gods, Galahad. And you in particular were raised on Avalon. Did you never study the teachings of the druids?" "Briefly, when I was very young." Galahad said disdainfully. "But I could ask the exact same question of you pagans. I don't understand how you can fail to see how wrong your beliefs are. I have heard you were raised at Glastonbury. Did you never study the teaching of the nuns?"
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Nov 20, 2011 11:19:25 GMT
"I don't understand either," Arthur confided to Tristram. "Unless...unless the Fay are....are like angels. It's very odd. I would not dare to argue with my sister's beliefs, unlike Sir Galahad. But maybe it's just a different way of looking at the same thing."
But he seemed uncertainly as he stroked the fabric of the girdle.
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"I did," said Morgan. "Though not by my own choice. I never believed in your God, though I learned to say the prayers and pretend I believed. It was at Glastonbury that I first learned to harness my powers as a sorceress. One of the nuns there was an enchantress born of a druid family. Though she believed in your God by this time, her powers were never stripped from her. She taught me the basics of both enchanting and elemental magic. So there, do you see, it is possible to be both magical and a Christian?"
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Post by Sir Galahad on Nov 20, 2011 18:03:16 GMT
"No, that is not true. A true Christian would never continue to follow rituals of the Old Faith. She may have claimed to be Christian, but in truth she was no more Christian than you, or Lancelot." Galahad argued.
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Post by Hallewes on Nov 20, 2011 23:21:54 GMT
Dina made an amused noise again. She turned to Gawain who was near
"Sir Galahad has obviously forgotten that he will be travelling with the Lady Morgan." She said clearly to him before returning her gaze to the wall.
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Nov 21, 2011 8:41:03 GMT
Gawain choked on his laughter, making Arthur look at him in confusion, forcing him to make a gesture of apology.
"Aye, perhaps he had," he whispered back.
"But Galahad, your miracle of the wine and water is a kind of magic and your Christ's death and rebirth is not so different from our own tradition regarding the Horned King, in which the King must die for the good of the land."
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Post by Sir Galahad on Nov 22, 2011 2:39:53 GMT
"There are also similarities between night and day, between men and women, yet we give them different names as they are so different in nature to label them with the same title would be foolish. The same is true of our respective faiths. What minute similarities may exist between the two are far outweighed by the vast differences. You believe it is tolerable for man to dabble in the realm of the supernatural. I disagree, miracles are the realm of the divine. Magic and man are two separate entities to combine them is wrong, unnatural. I could go on, but I fear it would be pointless. You are as devoted to your beliefs as I am to mine, and as wrong as you may be, your faith is admirable." Galahad replied.
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