Sybal Janssen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Finished "The Hallowed Haunt" today and am starting to reread it. Your Five Deity theology fascinates me. I was particularly taken with the idea the thumb, which represents The Bastard God touches all five fingers. Did you develop this theology completely from your own creative imagination, or was it a partial not to the five elements of the Ancient Chinese world view? Much else of your theology delighted me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
While acquaintance with a number of different real-world religions informed the Chalion books, I think the Five Gods are original, both in underpinnings and in a lot of details. Some ideas are stolen and modified, such as the rather check-mark-shaped signing of the Five over the five theological points (four if one is Quadrene) versus the Catholic signing of the Cross, which is also a mnemonic.
The ancient Chinese probably had less influence than several other sources. Otherwise, I used lots of natural elements; the hand, the seasons, human familial relationships, and so on. Five was also attractive because it resisted, to a degree, dualism, which I think is a way of looking at the world that tends to create a lot of ill.
The two religions in The Hallowed Hunt had some inspiration from the clash between early Christianity and the Germanic, Saxon, and Nordic pagan religions of the so-called Dark Ages. Great Audar's career borrows elements from Charlemagne, for example. (Well, steals, perhaps, since I have no intention of giving them back.)
Ta, L.
The ancient Chinese probably had less influence than several other sources. Otherwise, I used lots of natural elements; the hand, the seasons, human familial relationships, and so on. Five was also attractive because it resisted, to a degree, dualism, which I think is a way of looking at the world that tends to create a lot of ill.
The two religions in The Hallowed Hunt had some inspiration from the clash between early Christianity and the Germanic, Saxon, and Nordic pagan religions of the so-called Dark Ages. Great Audar's career borrows elements from Charlemagne, for example. (Well, steals, perhaps, since I have no intention of giving them back.)
Ta, L.
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