Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Merseian Prayers

"Dawn broke over Ardaig, and from the tower on Eidh Hill kettle-drums spoke their ancient prayer."
-Ensign Flandry, CHAPTER FOURTEEN, p. 141.
 
"He saw a building blocky against the clouds, and on its roof a gong to call for prayers to the God of a world two and a half light-centuries hence."
-A Circus Of Hells, CHAPTER ELEVEN, p. 275.
 
"'The real reward for you, my almost-daughter will be in the service itself. And knowing that your name will be in the Secret Prayers while the Vach Urdiolch endures.'"
-A Circus Of Hells, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, p. 332.
 
These are prayers to a God regarded as "unknowable." See Aycharaych Revisited.
 
We are told almost nothing of Merseian religious practice so it is instructive to assemble these few references.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

We also see mention of a possible Merseian "scripture" in the first paragraph of Chapter XVII of A CIRCUS OF HELLS: the "Book of Virtues."

Ad astra! Sean