Re: Confusion over Zola Fel...

From: Viktor Haag <vhaag_at_...>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:49:55 -0500

Peter Metcalfe writes:
> >* When did Zola Fel (the male God) turn into Zola Fel (the
> > female spirit)? Are these the same beings?
>
> Zola Fel has always been a spirit as the very earliest mention
> of him (Nomad Gods) mentions him as such. I'm far less
> concerned about ZF's sexuality as water gods are sexually
> mutable.

Well, it seems it's the gender at issue and not the sexuality, but OK, I take your point.

> >* How do the Pavic Sartarites who live on or along the River
> > of Cradles worship Zola Fel?
>
> As a spirit.
>
> > It would seem foolish for a Sartarite boatman or farmer to
> > ignore propitiating Zola Fel, but it would also seem more
> > natural for them to make sacrifices to Zola Fel the God then
> > to engage in ecstatic rites to converse with Zola Fel the
> > Spirit.
>
> Why don't they just do mixed worship?

OK; that would make it a "common religion" practice, then, right?

> Why do they have to make sacrifices to Zola Fel?

Because I assumed that Sartarites would be more comfortable propitiating Zola Fel as a God, since I understood they had a tendency to think of most things in theistic terms.

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