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Dwarves' beliefs #22
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I wouldn't say the Council of the wise is trusted by the gods, or chosen, as much as aware of the gods' will. That is, (as per this belief) the gods haven't explicitly chosen the members of the council. Instead, any dwarf that makes good choices in his life is considered to have an insight in the gods' will, because if his choices are good, then necessarily, they have to be what the gods want. Honestly, I'm not sure the belief that I've written for the dwarves really makes sense, but then again, it's a religion so contradictions are almost something to aim for! Concerning holy scripts, we haven't decided for them to have any, but that's not fixed. Concerning the current state of affair of the world, and its direction, I think both both types of prayers are possible. I think we could have skepticals an unbelievers, but the dwarf culture is quite uniform (at least at the time of what we write here, i.e. -400 until 0). |
So, the pantheon here is not clearly defined (I think it doesn't matter much): it could consist of something like a dozen of gods; this could depend on the specific dwarf subculture, on time, etc. Where could evil or bad things come from? Some proposals:
Also, keep in mind that nothing is fixed in time here. Religions change, cultures too. |
I quote David R. Loy:
I like the third option: no real notion of evil. As I understand it, there is no personification of evil ; they won't have an external element that cause or justify their bad behavior (like Satan for the Christians). But in some terms, the people must be as evil as good. That is up to them to choose their direction. |
I'm trying to understand the beliefs of the dwarves.
I will try to make a comparison. They might look a bit like reformed catholics that however would have kept their ancient religious habits. Let me explain this.
They almost accord no importance to prays, benedictions and blessings but unlike the reformed catholics, they continue to perform them as an ancient habit.
The reformed catholics gave more importance to the bible, the original root of their religion, the Lord's word. But here they accord instead more importance to, and that is the point I start to being lost, the Wise Council. This council acts like a group of chosen one, trusted by the gods, that have their benedictions. This sounds really like a Papacy.
Now my question is: why are they trusting some blessed people, the Wise Council (like a college of cardinals), and not instead holy books or runes or whatever (do they got any?).
Also, assuming that the current state of affair of the world, and its direction, is the right one, are they just praying their gods to thank them and to hope they continue to oversee them the same way ?
And isn't there any skeptical dwarfs or non-believers ?
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