From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 10 Apr 1994 - 16:43:39 EEST
Martin Crim in X-RQ-ID: 3559
> I said:
>>> As for Urox, I believe his emergence as a separate cult is a second
>>> or third age development.
> Alex Ferguson says:
>> This is sustainable (perhaps) in Orlanthi lands, but not, one has to
>> presume, in Prax and the Wastes.
> Except that there were NO cults in Prax until the Pure Horse people came
> there. Remember, the PHP were successful because they had true divine magic.
> Sure, Urox was a part of the mythology of Prax, but there was no cult, just
> shamanism.
> There are lots of these mythological figures who have no real developed
> cult--look at all those figures in the Orlanth write-up in WF. There's a
> continuum from obscure figures through guys like Barntar through aspects like
> Orlanth Rex to semi-independent cults like Mastakos all the way to really
> separate cults. So I guess I agree with Alex.
Right now I help myself with the one religion - many saints concept for
the Aeolian church. I find it not too different from the Praxian "worship
whichever attending spirit" praxis, although if conflicts like the magical
ones in Nomad Gods occur regularly, the average Praxian nomad will have
sacrificed at least one point of permanent POW to two dozen different
spirits in his lifetime, not counting his or her tribal spirits and deities.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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