Moon Women

Heads up: this article discusses infant abandonment. Proceed with caution.

There are two major milestones in a woman's life. First, when as a girl she enters her second growth and begins menstruating, she celebrates her Feast of First Blood. Later, if she gives birth to a baby girl, she is celebrated as a woman in a ceremony that grants her the rights and responsibilities of an adult. But there is a third milestone that is not as widely acknowledged, and which many women will spend their whole lives ignorant of. The society of Moon Women is an elite organization with a highly selective membership. To qualify, a woman must be a firstborn girl, and her first girl must have become a woman.

Structure

As Woman Woman leads the village, she also leads the Moon Women.  The hierarchy within the organization depends on how many first girls a member is descended from.

Culture

Upon initiation into the group, a woman learns the full mythology of her culture.  For many, this is when they find out that their first one or two (possibly more) pregnancies were not trash as they had been led to believe, but boy babies left in the midden trench.  While it may come as a surprise, it is not so much of a shock.  Boys are not valued in the women's culture, and since a woman can only get into the society by having eventually had a baby girl, she appears to be an example of evidence that the practice works to prevent girls from being cursed.

Leader Title

Woman Woman

Related Traditions

• Moon Woman initiation

Related Ethnicities

• The Women

View from the future

Because none of the radical women who challenged Moon Wish were members of the Moon Women, knowledge of the organization did not go with them to the vastland coast.  Of course other secret societies exist in the modern world, and some of the truths they're hiding are equally horrifying.