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==Mythology== | ==Mythology== | ||
Since they are so new a species, there aren’t many myths that are actually Dokkaran. The mythology surrounding The Lady and her own origins is also treated as historical fact and most would find it unwise to question the accuracy of The Lady’s visions in regard to Ceata’s pre-Dokkaran history and her own origins. Through Lieutenant Dell (Who was a cultural anthropologist), the Dokkarans know the myths of many different cultures and enjoy these tales from time to time. | Since they are so new a species, there aren’t many myths that are actually Dokkaran. The mythology surrounding The Lady and her own origins is also treated as historical fact and most would find it unwise to question the accuracy of The Lady’s visions in regard to Ceata’s pre-Dokkaran history and her own origins. Through Lieutenant Dell (Who was a cultural anthropologist), the Dokkarans know the myths of many different cultures and enjoy these tales from time to time. | ||
===Fables, Parables, and Proverbs=== | |||
The aforementioned mythology detailing Ceata before both The Lady and the Dokkarans is largely incorporated into the Theology and religious texts of the Dokkarans. These are stories and axiums that make up Dokkaran religious teachings, and while there is always some debate over interpretation (As with many religions), The Lady herself or the High Cleric of Kural Hanesh will resolve these debates between theologians before they become serious. | |||
====The Wind and The Mountain==== | |||
''Long ago, a great Wind rushed over Ceata, it knocked down trees and rose the tides. But when the Wind came to the mighty Mountain, the Wind found that it could not bring stone so low, so easily. So instead the Wind howled at the Mountain to bow to it's power, showing it the devastation it had wrought at it's feet. The Moutain did not bow, for it could not, it's Pride too great, and it's stone too thick to see the wisdom in submission. The Mountain believed itself invincible, after all, what could a mere breeze do to solid rock? The Wind again demanded the Mountain's submission, but the Mountain again refused. The Wind retreated and the Mountain believed himself safe. But the wind came back the next day, and this time brought ice, sand and rain along with it, and though it took a thousand years, the mighty Moutain, was brought low...'' | |||
The Wind and The Mountain is one of the few Dokkaran tales that is still left completely to interpretation. High Clerics throughout the centuries have always had their own spin on the tale, as have other members of the Clergy and other Dokkarans. Most have interpreted the story with the Mountain being arrogant and prideful, and incapable of bending the knee or acknowledging a force greater than itself. Others have interpreted the Wind as the Villain who asked the Mountain to break it's moral code, something it would rather die than do. Both interpretations are relatively non-conflicting, as they deal with two different aspects of the story (The different points of views of the characters)but the first interpretation is the prevailing one. | |||
===The Last and The Goddess=== | |||
''A world that is not our own. A star that is not seen... The Last was given shelter upon Paradise by the Goddess, after it had arisen from the ashes of the World That Was. The Last grew alone, such was the way. As age took it, memory was robbed as well, until the Last could not even remember it's own name, even less the name of the Goddess that offered it shelter. When it died, The Last deposited a single seed beside it, and with the help of the Goddess, the seed grew into the grandest of all that | |||
know the light of the Goddess, The Lady. A time will come when The Lady too will become, The Last, but her children will know her, and she will live on in them, and so shall the cycle repeat.'' | |||
Poorly written and all in all a tad confusing, The Last and The Goddess occupies an important if widely ignored place in Dokkaran mythology. It foretells that The Lady is the last of her kind, and that the Dokkarans (her children) are destined to take over her legacy. As Dokkarans cannot as yet reproduce among themselves, it makes little sense that they should live on without The Lady, at least in their current state. The last verse is the most important, as it states that Time is a wheel, and that while certain events and archetypes arise in every cycle, those with individuality have free will, though all (Some way or another) work towards an inevitable end that only The Goddess can know. | |||
==Society== | ==Society== | ||