She made a sort of chart, superimposing the different religions as I described them, with a pin run through them all, as it were their common basis being a Dominant Power or Powers, and some Special Behavior, mostly taboos, to please or placate. A clear methodical luminous mind had my Ellador, not only reasonable, but swiftly perceptive. She soon found that we had many, that they varied widely, but had some points in common. When I asked her about it, she tried at first to tell me, and then, seeing me flounder, asked for more information about ours. I think it was only as I grew to love Ellador more than I believed anyone could love anybody, as I grew faintly to appreciate her inner attitude and state of mind, that I began to get some glimpses of this faith of theirs. Its deification of motherhood was obvious enough but there was far more to it than that or, at least, than my first interpretation of that. It took me a long time, as a man, a foreigner, and a species of Christian-I was that as much as anything-to get any clear understanding of the religion of Herland.
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