First I want to echo Jane Williams, that is some wonderful stuff
about shrines and the founding of such within greater temples. It
conjures up a scene where the priest in the sacred time ceremony
says the ritual phrase "and now is time for the secrets that were
once hidden to be revealed; if you know something new of XXX whom we
have gathered together in this place to praise and worship then let
it be known to all," and somebody gets up and starts telling a story
and acting it out and it involves everybody at the place in a
never-before-understood facet of XXX's existence, and nobody, not
even the priest, expected it to happen. Do you think that might have
been how Harrek got the bear god? Or is that how lots of heroes,
many of whom are neither respectful of protocol nor particularly
nice, make their changes to the cults? I now think so. And that's why
people tar, feather, and throw the trickster out of town before the
ceremony can begin.
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Loren Miller <loren_at_wharton.upenn.edu>
A priest, a rabbi, a Penn student, and an elephant walk into
a bar. The bartender says, "what is this, some kinda joke?"