That's a bot. This is the second community I've seen him hit today. I've already reported him once, which is all LJ will accept from my account, but anyone else can report him too. I'd also delete or screen that comment, if you can; there's probably some sort of hidden content in it.
Jewish scripture provides a fair few. Some relatively happy polygynous households, and some highly disfunctional one. There's Abraham, Sarah and Hagar; Jacob, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah; King David, Michal, Jonathan, Bathsheba and David's six other wives; and Solomon with his hundreds of wives and concubines.
Yeah, but it’s all heteronormative, unless, for example, you follow the interpretation that David and Jonathan had A Thing Beyond Being Just Friends.
The canonical poly relationship in the Bible seems to involve a husband, one wife he loves who is infertile, and one fertile wife that he’s just not that into. E.g., Jacob/Rachael/Leah.
Ruth, Boaz, and Naomi, possibly; the language about Ruth and Naomi is very intense, although it's not explicitly romantic, and Ruth and Boaz do marry, although possibly not for love (or for long--Boaz is much older).
Mythology reinforces and reflects its parent culture -- you'll find plenty of love triangles, infidelity, concubines and multiple wives. Greek mythology alone has dozens. If the parent culture supported plural marriage, the myth ends well (at least for the male); if not, it ends badly, especially for the female.
Whether any of these are 'alternative relationships' depends on what you mean by that. Cheating on your spouse is pretty much the opposite of polyamory as currently defined. If you want to get away from the basic "Man cheats, woman suffers" pattern, you'll need to avoid Western mythology and folklore and dig hard in other parts of the world.
Yeah, from what i'm reading so far those guidelines are working well. I really don't want love triangles or things where the spouse (male or female) end up in ruins. Thank you!
Try looking into Tibet mythology. I might have dreamt it, but I think I remember something there - no specifics, though, and I can't find any proof right now.
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The canonical poly relationship in the Bible seems to involve a husband, one wife he loves who is infertile, and one fertile wife that he’s just not that into. E.g., Jacob/Rachael/Leah.
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Whether any of these are 'alternative relationships' depends on what you mean by that. Cheating on your spouse is pretty much the opposite of polyamory as currently defined. If you want to get away from the basic "Man cheats, woman suffers" pattern, you'll need to avoid Western mythology and folklore and dig hard in other parts of the world.
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Thank you!
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