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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 335752" data-attributes="member: 4144">Well, this kinda brings it up: has anyone else heard the rumor that supposedly the Crystal Skull of Lubaantun (sp) was the mysterious "Head of Baphomet" the Templars had?  At any rate, it seems that it was NOT found in Mayan ruins, as Mitchell-Hedges said...Anyway, I've hashed out how I'm going to deal with pagan clerics, and it's in a way that's mythologically accurate.  I'm working on the assumption (DnD-wise) that deities rely on belief to continue existence.  As more and more peoples were converted, whether to Islam or to Christianity or to Judaism, less and less believed in the old gods, and so they dwindled, from godhood to spiritness, with small enclaves of believers left.  Thus, the majority of pagan clerics are actually shamans (as per Green Ronin), and only "the Big 3" are clerics.  So therefore, all the gods are valid...but not all are anymore.Celtic mythology features this idea a lot, with the Tuatha de Danaan "dwindling" to the Sidhe faery-lords, and still later to mere tricksters. Dunno about Hinduism, though... that's one of the strongholds, I guess.</blockquote>