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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1822404" data-attributes="member: 6533">Thanks.  Threads on the bridge between the real, the mythical/historical, and the game are why I come here, bout time I did one for myself.I been talking to people about this issue, and my GF presented me with a revelation I'm just kicking myself over.We're both of the Popish persuasion and were thinking on the subject, when she told me/I realized that this can't be a single deity.There has to be a kid and a momma or the whole thing fails to work.So, in light of that, a few things fell together.I don't have names for the deities yet, but they are always the mother and the daughter/sister.  In the context of worship men are always sons of the mother and sisters of the daughter, but women can be sisters of the mother and mothers of the daughter as well as daughters of the mother and sisters of the daughter.  They have a special relationship to animals, but particularly predators and those species in which the mother cares for children and teaches them.  They can take the form of animals, but when in animal form one of them must be humanoid or they must always be mother and a cub or kit.The mother is always more substantial and older than the daughter, but they can come very close in apparent age and appearance.  Stereotypically the daughter is more mischevous and kinetic than the mother, but in actuallity, and the myths make this apparent, they are very similar in outlook and personality even where their aims and desire may differ.  There are even indications that the two switch or succeed roles with some frequency.The two are famed stewards, brewers, bakers, fishers, dancers, tanners, animal tamers, and weavers.  Much of their mythology involves intelligent animals or shapechangers, drink, and ovens.  As much as they are nurturers and preservers they are also agents of protection, revenge, and recrimination with little to no respect for either privacy or law.  Enemies of the mother, and her own wayward worshippers, are spied on and offered soft diplomacy, hard deals, and drink followed by, failing the diplomacy, horrible murder as they are mauled, butchered, and baked.  The mother does not make deals, nor does she give gifts without obligation.  She can be pleaded with and is compassionate, but not with those who renege or refuse where there is obligation.  The mother and sister are very sharp and successful in business and politics, if overly pragmatic and generally without great ambition.  They despise conventional warfare, approve of activism, and have no illusions about the necessity of threat and spectacle.Among the deities they have a reputation for being too shrewd and tricksterish with no compunction over dealing with evil, if only from a position of strength, if sometimes hidden strength.  They are known for a very sharp sense and prankish sense of humor, having little respect for the accomplishments of others, and being too quick to humble others.In family life they are great patrons of love and bawdyness, but only properly applied.  They patronize widows, but not orphans or illegitimate children, though they are happy to recognize ceremonies of adoption or legitimacy performed under the purview of other deities.</blockquote>

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