Re: Religious text in Conlangs

Staving Jan van Steenbergen:
>  --- Jake X skrzypszy:
>
> > How many of your concultures have religions?  Sacred texts?
>
>No, the Veneds are normal Catholics, so they use the same sacred texts as we
>do. I haven't thought much about the religion of the speakers of my other
>languages.
On Huna:
Wizards are monotheists. Magic is a remnant of the powers of Mallapont (the
Creator), which he left in the world for the benefit of humanity. Wizards
consider themselves His servants. There is a creation myth explaining all
this, which I have yet to translate fully into Khangaþyagon.
The Wavolar are part animist and part monotheist - they regard nature
spirits as aspects of The Sky Chief, He-of-Many-Spirits. They have an oral
tradition of bardic poetry recording their history. Some of the more
important poems are considered sacred, such as the vow that a Wavol woman
takes at her coming-of-age ceremony, never to speak or learn any alien
language.
The 27 Clans of the Jade Mountains are syncretistic polytheists. Each clan
worships principally its own god, paying due honour to the gods of other
clans, especially the Emperors. In the protectorates of their Empire, they
consider local religions equal to their own. Since some of these cultures
are monotheistic, they regard the idea that all the gods are aspects of one
God as reasonably plausible. They mythologise their history.
The Iron People have a mystical cosmology based on the idea that the
universe is formed by the actions of pairs of complementary forces. There
is popular belief in a sun god and mine demons.
The Most Noble Order of Knights Errant has a religion ultimately derived
from those of the Wavolar and the Jade Mountains. There is a strong
emphasis on "Knightly Virtues", such as justice, chivalry etc.
The Desert People practice a form of ancestor worship.
The Theocracy of Southland were very aggressive polytheists, similar in
some respects to the Aztecs. They ferociously oppressed a monotheistic
culture called The Children of the Last People. When the Old Empire
conquered Southland, the Theocracy was destroyed, although some of its
cults remain.

Pete