I am home and bored and "Secrets" is being frustrating, so... meme time!
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askerian: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.
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6. Religions (part two)
Date: 2009-10-28 08:11 pm (UTC)Just as Church-folk and Circle-folk call Qabulists 'Jenjani sacrificers,' they call Rhonaists 'southern pagans.' This, I have decided, is because the southern religious traditions aren't really organized enough to have a single name. Also, I've decided that Rhiannon of Rhone was part of the same religious outpouring and mixing that led to the creation of the Church, the Circle, and modern Amaalism. Her attempts to codify southern traditions helped create the sense that there was a single, unified southern religion, and that it had existed for generations before her. Scholars know this is false, but most southerners believe their religion is much older than Rhiannon's writings.
Fourth Note, 3/7/07: While the basic faith of the Doran Empire is Christianity, it's not referred to as such within that world. This is because it would break the 'secondary reality' aspect of the thing. So all through "Finding Marea" I talked about the Church and Church-folk, the Circle and Circle-folk, the Horse-cult and Horse-dancers, and so on. Amaalism and Symbolism are the only two faiths that have standard adjectival names. I suspect that this has some effect on the way people think about religion, but I'm not at all sure what that might be.