Peter:
>You mistake the nature of my objection. Yelm the Cult is a seperate
>entity from Yelm the Sun. The urban people of Dara Happa have always
>worshipped the Sun in some fashion or another because it is *their*
>God, not because he is the ruler.
Exactly, and since Yelm _is_ the ruler his cult survives even though it is small in number of worshippers.
>If Yelm was worshipped by only
>a small minority, then some other god will displaced him and _be_ the
>definer of the social order.
No, the other god won't, because Yelm's majesty and rulership reflects on the cult. Look what happened to Basko when he tried to challenge Yelm.
But this was all in my disclaimer: if the gods created men and influence their cults my theory is possible. If men created the gods and the cult influences the deity then you are right.
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