> So what
> Gods do the Ducks worship? I suppose they say a little prayer to Uncle
> Crawdad when going prawning and stop off at the local Bartar shrine when
> going to (or from) harvesting wild rice. How does that sound?
Unconvincing. Barntar is the god of the _Plough_ after all, not (quite) a Generic Grain Deity. The general pattern of worshipping an ad hoc hodge-podge of gods sounds about right to me, though. The idea that they worship Zong as their main hunter deity makes a fair bit of sense, though perhaps under a (marginally) different name, giving the ducks (and more especially, the trolls) Plausible Deniability that it really is the "same" god...
> And then Sergio Mascarenhas asks:
>
> > Now tell me, why did they borrow human gods - Orrlanthi
> >pantheon, why not a full duck pantheon?
>
> IMHO, a key part of the swell melodrama that is the Ducks of Glorantha is
> that they lost whatever connection they had to their original Gods when
> they got booted off of the base of the Spike in God Time.
If I might presume to interject on his behalf, I think that Sergio's original point was that ducks do indeed "borrow" gods (but do they ever pay them back? Noooooo!), so why not borrow fairly eclecticly?
Slainte,
Alex.
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