Marasa

AUTHORED AS ONE RECORD AND NOT AS TWO OR THREE, WHICH IS THE ONLY HONEST OPTION. The source's whole point about them is that they resist being counted - they are twins and yet three, male and female and both male and both female - so splitting them into two or three records would assert a resolution the tradition specifically refuses. sex is 'other' for the same reason. THE CATHOLIC SYNCRETISM IS RECORDED AND NOT DRAWN AS AN EDGE: Cosmas and Damian are not in this corpus, and a syncretism is a fact about how a tradition was practised under pressure, not a relation between beings. They carry a verified-solitary verdict rather than a manufactured kinship. THE PRIMARY NAME IS 'Marasa' AND NOT 'the Marasa', WHICH IS NOT A STYLE CHOICE: this record was first authored with the article, and the post-generation sweep then reported 'Marasa' ABSENT against the record that had just been created, because a leading article normalises into the indexed string. That is the false-absence failure lane 27 documented in Pehar and Tonpa Shenrab and lanes 18 and 19 found before it - REPRODUCED HERE BY THIS BATCH'S OWN AUTHORING, caught by the second sweep, and fixed before it shipped.

Domains

• twinship
• childhood
• paradox

Sources

• Reference treatment of the Marasa: the Marasa are divine twins who appear either as two or as three children - they are twins and yet they number three, they are male and female, and both male and both female - and they are commonly syncretised with the Catholic saints Cosmas and Damian.