>I still see no reason why you can't walk out of a temple to Orlanth, where
>you've just made a sacrifice to the Storm God, and walk into a temple to
>the Seven Mothers and make a sacrifice to the Red Moon.
Both Lunar and Orlanthi deities are not sacrificial. Orlanthi religion is devotional while Lunar Gods are adorational (cf the sidebar in enclosure #1).
Secondly you are blurring the distinction between Orlanth & Red Goddess and Orlanthi Gods & Lunar Deities. The Lunars, wearing their religious hat, find the worship of Orlanth unacceptable. If they wear their imperial hat, worshippers of Orlanth are just more taxpayers.
>Yes, in the 1600s, the Red Goddess and Orlanth have set each other in
>opposition. This is recent in the history of the Orlanth religion (even if
>it's certainly long enough to make a difference). The Castle Blue story in
>King of Sartar is pretty clearly not contemporary with Castle Blue.
Then kindly explain:
"...they were all of the Hendrieki tribe and good Orlanthi. One day their chiefs and godi all woke with headaches. They looked to the north, and there for the first time they saw the great orb of the Red Moon. [...] This was 1247." KoS p200
And Karsten Fardrossen attempted the Lightbringer's Quest during Castle Blue and failed (KoS p164).
Turning to the Dara Happan/Lunar PoV we find that about Castle Blue:
"Even foreigners found excuses to become engaged. The barbarian Orlanthi said the Goddess was evil, ..." GRoY p52
This was composed as part of the fortunate succession in 1/7.
Hence the opposition between the Goddess and Orlanth is integral from Castle Blue at least and not a 1600s-myth as you aver.
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