lunabee34

Same same. I read the first one in middle school and finished all the available ones in high school. I waited almost ten years! for Plains of Passage and read that one in grad school, and then finally read the last one when it came out in 2011, and it was so disappointing.

She doesn't invent the patriarchy on purpose, but remember how every society is a matriarchy because they all believe that children come from the woman and that spirits from the woman and a man randomly mix to produce children. They don't believe that sex has anything to do with producing children, but Ayla does. In this book, she finally convinces Jondalar of that, and that's the beginning of patriarchy. If sex creates children, then no more indiscriminate sex. If men contribute to the creation of children, that's the end of the matriarchy and female power. It's such a bleak ending.