From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue 04 Apr 2000 - 11:56:16 EEST
Terra Incognita:
>But many Malkioni "Commoners" AFAIK Rokari Peasants and New Hrestoli Farmers
>should not understand their cult doctrine and still used their Magic of
>Fertility Goddess.
These farmers haven't had fertility goddesses for quite a while (since
the Abiding Book came out). The Kingdoms of Loskalm and Seshnela
derive spiritual strength by ensuring that their farmers are free
from error and that includes things like the aforementioned fertility
goddesses. Further east and south (i.e. Junora, Jontalela, Janube,
Safelster and Umathela), you will find the peasants doing this sort
of thing but the lords are either backward or heretics.
> >Only some heterodox Malkioni like those in Safelster, Carmania
> >and Southbank would believe this. Orthodox Malkioni know that
> >their God is above the sun and the material universe itself.
>Symbolism and Human Instinct cannot afford Pure Logic or Mysicism
>without Some Sacrifice.
Malkionism has plenty of 'sacrifice' mythology, (the most important
secret about Malkion is how he sacrificed himself to save the cosmos)
but this does not require that they view the sun as a divine being
or representative of their God.
>Such as Waertagi used many Statury for their Mishmash Religion between Watery
>Theism and Monotheism.
And the Waertagi are really henotheists rather than pure monotheists
like the Malkioni. Like most Malkioni, they were originally faithful
but fell to worshipping false gods in the Great Darkness. Unlike
others, they never purified themselves of this error.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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