Re: Religious text in Conlangs

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:52:47 -0400, Jake X <starvingpoet@...> wrote:

>Hi All!
>
>How many of your concultures have religions?  Sacred
>texts?
In the old Kolagian universe, mainly the humans had religions, although
other kinds of people occasionally adopted human religions and worshiped
human gods. Olaetian religion is polytheistic, with about 25 gods and
goddesses (Arnézan) who can assume various forms, and each having their own
domains of influence in the world (fire, ice, chaos, logic, confusion,
love, music, life, death, etc.) In the new Azirian universe, animistic
religions are more common, especially among the kinds of people who used to
be called "elves". Mizarians have no gods, but they do have an elaborate
tradition of customs and rituals that must be observed. I used to think
that Zireen didn't have any religion, but I'm starting to think that
"Zireen religion" is just so different from human religion that it's hard
to recognize as a kind of religion.

At one time I had a sound sample of an Olaetian poem describing the
creation of the universe, but I can't find it. The text can be seen at the
Conlang list archive:

http://ri.xu.org/conlang/conl9405.txt

     A lina'n, ypha' oxe'nik;      asela'n s-ekplentu nensko.
     Ot y xyya-ne' xakhe'nik:      kh-u y ohas', kh-u y tensko.
     Xes xa proxyrg nextaredhli    xyika ninska le' unilatya
     Xy ne'z xyli e nararedhli     sepe'an ilats y il' redhlatya.

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