Patrik Sandberg wrote of Sartar
> sometimes the temples look like Norwegian
> staff-churches filtered through Gloranthan fantasy
> weirdness
Greg Stafford was telling me about staff churches (I think even mentioning the one in Tales 12, drawn by Patrik Sandberg). He thought they were really cool, and should be in Sartar. But that's sort of how he gets with any idea - -- if it's cool, he wants it everywhere. I convinced him that it was a Ralian tradition, which he recognized as making more sense.
This is not to say there are no staff-church influences in Sartar -- the Ralians haven't been totally isolated over the ages. But a temple is likely to be more like a huge longhouse in the south part of Sartar (and I'm not sure what architecture in the Tarsh side of things).
Carl Fink wrote
> A couple of folks mention that Pentan women would worship a horse
> goddess. I tend not to think so.
>
> Remember, the Pentans are *not* the Pure Horse people. They ride
> horses, but herd other animals, in particular cattle. I'd expect the
> men to worship a horse-riding demigod, and the women to worship the
> cattle goddess, Eiritha.
I think you're mostly wrong. True, most (but not all!) Pentans are not Pure Horse people. But all of them ride. They would need a horse goddess to increase their herds. This seems the province of women. What they would *not* have is the providing horse goddess of the Grazers; they would indeed worship "Eiritha"/"Uralda" for that (though probably by neither the Praxian nor Heortlending name).
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