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Since life on and near the sea was so much a part of life for Catullans, nearly every religious pantheon that developed on the planet featured a sea deity as a primary figure. | Since life on and near the sea was so much a part of life for Catullans, nearly every religious pantheon that developed on the planet featured a sea deity as a primary figure. | ||
'''Kliegerst''': The holy storm, a subtropical region of the Catullan seas in which (by coincidence of local land masses and ocean currents) storm activity was nearly continuous for centuries at a time. Many Catullan cosmologies believed that the souls of the wicked were tossed in these storms endlessly, and that when these storms peeled free and drifted onto land, damaging cities and farms, it was a punishment either for the victims or for the cursed souls. Good souls drifted toward the bright, calm eye of the storms; this was either heaven or a sign that the | '''Kliegerst''': The holy storm, a subtropical region of the Catullan seas in which (by coincidence of local land masses and ocean currents) storm activity was nearly continuous for centuries at a time. Many Catullan cosmologies believed that the souls of the wicked were tossed in these storms endlessly, and that when these storms peeled free and drifted onto land, damaging cities and farms, it was a punishment either for the victims or for the cursed souls. Good souls drifted toward the bright, calm eye of the storms; this was either heaven or a sign that the soul was ready to ascend to it.<br> | ||
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'''Vorde Telkoode''': A trickster figure, somewhere between a particularly tenacious, powerful spirit and a deity-- always female, most frequently old. She was said to sail around the seas of Cendo Prae in or on a cauldron of variable size, which she used to stir up trouble, both literal and metaphorical. In some stories she stood inside the cauldron, and it only came up to her waist. In others she sat on one handle like a child might sit on a swing.<br> | '''Vorde Telkoode''': A trickster figure, somewhere between a particularly tenacious, powerful spirit and a deity-- always female, most frequently old. She was said to sail around the seas of Cendo Prae in or on a cauldron of variable size, which she used to stir up trouble, both literal and metaphorical. In some stories she stood inside the cauldron, and it only came up to her waist. In others she sat on one handle like a child might sit on a swing.<br> | ||