I have made a quiz -- which Chalionese god are you a disciple of?

[jack]

I have rhapsodised before about the theology in Lois McMasters Bujold's Chalion books. The gods seem both interesting, real, relevant, and effective, and yet challenging and not passive-aggressive.

There are five. The Father of Winter, god of justice, business, and a good death in due time. The Mother of Summer, goddess of mothers and healing. The Son of Autumn, god of hunting and companionship. The Daughter of Spring, goddess of learning. And the Bastard, god of a parcel of necessary yet awkward tasks.

In the books I really empathised. And yet I wasn't quite sure where I -- or anyone else I knew -- it. Now, wonder no longer, the magic of the internet brings the answer!:

Which Lois M Bujold God?
-- The Daughter

You scored as a disciple of the Daughter of Spring.

The Daughter is the daughter of the Mother of Summer and Father of Winter, godess of young women, learning, spring and lyric poetry. She is often seen as a beautiful self-assured young woman.

The military Order of the Daughter is twin to the Order of the Son, but deals with domestic problems, insurrections, and bandits. Cazaril's old friend the enthusiastic March dy Pallyiar and leftenents Foix and Ferda belond to the Order of the Daughter.

She is the god most visible in Curse of Chalion, driving Cazaril to Iselle's aid to break the curse inadvertantly spilled on the royal family a generation ago. When Cazaril experiences he presence, he says "He'd once thought of the Lady of Spring as a sort of pleasant, gentle young woman, in in his vague and youthful conceptualizations. The divines and Ordol's book had honed it scarcely further to a mental picture of a nice immortal lady. This overwhelming Mind listened to every cry or song in the world at once. She watched the souls spiral up in all their terrible complex beauty with the delight of agardener inhaling the scent of Her flowers. And now this Mind turned Her attention fully upon Cazaril."

Your scores were:

The Daughter	10
The Son	6
The Father	6
The Mother	3
The Bastard	5

Take the test: http://semichrome.net/~jack/quiz/quiz.php?quiz=chalion

I invariably score as the Daughter (learning -- there was too little information on domesticity, female virginity, lyric poetry, or spring for me to judge properly or I might have scored less) with affiliations with the Father (for responsibility and pedantry) and the Bastard (for vile humour, chaos, and misfits).

I'd be particularly interested to know what people who read the books got. Its an interesting but possibly nonpanacea test in that I didn't know what I'd get before I started, just made up a question at a time and saw where it went.

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I think most appropriate is to let you tick two or three radio buttons, but there isn't a form of tickybox that does that, really.

I can give you some javascript that does that, if you like.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That could be useful. For now I think I'll leave it, it works 95% in simple html, I can't be bothered to tinker with it.