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Maybe it was one founded on mutual respect and understanding where they were both 'placed' within the relationship , almost as though they were a 'complement' to one another.
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This reminds me of a quote from "Myths Transformed" about Manwe and Melkor:
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He [Melkor] was to make / devise / begin; Manwe (a little less great) was to improve, carry out, complete.
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. . . which seems to hint at a similar complementarity between those two, the original brothers of Ea.