> There are not likely to be cultural echos from any
> religion
> which has died out unless they have been absorbed
> into the subsequent culture/religion.
Very true. As I understand it, the worship of Orlanth simply died out during the Darkness, it didn't get replaced by any other religion. But the culture simply continued, after a fashion.
> So we have days of the week
> named after Norse Gods - a religion which was widely
> practiced twelve hundred years ago.
Yes, good example. And we know most of their names, and stories. We don't know the rituals used to contact them (well, there are a few Odinists about, but I doubt if they know what the original rituals were, either). And if someone walked up to me and started reciting one of those myths in the original, I wouldn't even know the language, much less be able to join in.
There's a thought - how much had language changed in that period?
So that's probably the absolute maximum knowledge left, at a guess. We didn't get hit by any major cataclysm in that period. We still had time for stories.
> Another angle you might want to consider is the
> revival of
> Pagan religions in the 19th Century.
> Now Gloranthans can actually
> connect to their gods pre-darkness so they'll have a
> better
> chance of reviving pre-darkness practices ...
I suspect those who practise pagan religions today will probably claim they can connect to their gods, too. And they may even be right, who knows?
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