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You mighht add: Shargash <-> Tolat <-> Bronze Treasure <-> aspect of Waha!
My view on Storm Bull, Urox, Eiritha etc, in Prax is this:
Eiritha is a Goddess and is Theistically worshipped, *at the Paps*. Paps
Eiritha is a remnant of the Golden Age when she could be worshipped properly.
The assorted Herd Eiritha's would be 'dealt with' (ecstatically communioned
with') by the shamanesses (or 'shawomen' if we really want a pedant
uprising.) Similarly, Waha is mostly a great spirit, but I am tempted to do
something different for the Khans, who should have powerful magic, but not be
'just' a good shaman.
I currently think Storm Bull should Theistic. It sets them apart from other
Praxians, who see Storm Bull as a great god almost too powerful for them to
'worship'. It is a relic from the Godtime when Storm Bull was the most
important deity to his children (ie the ancestors of the Praxians). It means
they do not do all the shady dealings with dodgy spirits (Malia, Oakfed,
Darkeater, Thed) that Waha Shamans seem to get up to at times. It means that
Storm Bull and Waha seldom meet each other in the Otherworld (they hardly
interact because Waha is born after Storm Bull drags himself off to lick his
wounds). It means that Eiritha of the Paps can still see her husband, but
that the poor relations out on the plains have to scrape by with her scrawny
son, named after a baby crying Wahwah.
Keith N
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