Issaries

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:06:15 +1300 (NZDT)


Joerg Baumgartner:

TT>>If the Henotheists *do* directly worship Issaries, or any other gods
>>for that matter, alongside the Invisible God (and I'm not necessarily
>>saying they don't) then they aren't in fact henotheists, which would
>>be a tad confusing...

>How would you call a religion which has the IG as supreme god, has
>wizards, and worships gods ln the theist mode on the side?

I do not believe that such a religion exists. IMO they are more likely to _fuse_ the two traditions such that the wizards venerate the gods as Saints or that the priests can talk to the Creator on rare occasions. (The issue of malkioni lording it over pagans is yet another matter but I do not feel this can be considered a religion).

>Well, the Issaries cult write-ups we have (Cults of Prax, River of Cradles))
>is a strange mix of Sartarite notions with Praxian myth. Of course it can't
>be applied directly to Ralios. "Desert Trackers? Never heard of them."

Garzeen is known in Ralios and Tanisor for his courting of the daughter of King of Seshnela. Yet he ends up in the wastes so it is not a sartarite/praxian mishmash.

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