The Peregrine/Star Ways Revisited

"The planet grows as the ships strain closer; it becomes a sapphire shield banded with clouds, blurred with rain and mountain mists."
-Poul Anderson, The Peregrine (New York, 1979), Chapter I, p. 1.

This description of Rendezvous reminds us of a description of Earth quoted here.

"'In the name of Cosmos, rendezvous,' he began formally." (Chapter II, p. 7)

Again, "Cosmos." See here and here. I do not think that we are told any details of the Cosmic religion but this is something to look out for while rereading Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History.