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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4592492" data-attributes="member: 54846">Hm. I can dig that. It's a decent point; that 'The God won't answer the prayer unless you wave your hands this way. Can't offend her.'  Actually, it reminds me of certain Chinese practices, about how very ceremonial they are. I remember seeing a documentary where a Buddhist (or was it Taoist?) priest did a dance that represented him descending into the Underworld to retrieve the soul of a departed loved one and bringing them up to Heaven. I could imagine such a thing, with the assumption that 'well, if the Cleric doesn't do the ritual, then the soul won't get where it's going...' Similar to the notion that if you don't give a body a proper burial, the soul would wander the earth, or rise as an undead of some type.But I would think it depends on the deity, too. Some are likely more about ritual than not. The Goddess of the Wilderness and Frontier may not really have many "Churches" to begin with, but wandering preachers. Same with the God of Doorways and Roads. And I can't imagine a whole lot of ritual involved in a God of War; punching the other guy in the face is the proper method of prayer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>