Rangers arrange invasions by war makers with militant gods;
Wardens keep what was old and remake the invaders;
the tomahawk people obliterate the passage grave cult but Neolithic herdsmen become Bronze Age farmers and seafarers;
the sun changes from a fire spirit to earth's guardian and husband;
Christianity comes and people turn to Mary;
Jehovah returns with the Reformation and the printing press but religion is divided and discredited until people yearn for a deeper faith and, in Lockridge's future, gather on hills;
the Wardens restore the Goddess but are opposed by the Rangers.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
If my recollection is correct, the Wardens did not believe in this goddess themselves, rather the cult was used by them as a means of controlling the people they ruled. Again, my sympathies lies more with the Rangers.
Sean
Kaor, Sean!
If my recollection is correct, then yours is not (I don’t have a copy of THE CORRIDORS OF TIME at hand). I don’t recall any statement that the Wardens’ Goddess religion was purely a matter of cynical manipulation, and I do recall one piece of evidence that Brann at least believed that the Wardens actually believed in their religion. When Malcolm Lockridge makes his way to Ranger-ruled America, Brann explains to him that his contact with the holy Storm Darroway meant that it would violate a religious taboo for the Wardens to send him directly back to twentieth century America, which was far too Rangerish for their tastes. So however much in error you may think they were, it seems that the Wardens (or some of them; in any society with strong pressures to be at least a nominal adherent of the state religion, not all nominal adherents will be strong and sincere adherents) did genuinely believe in their Goddess religion.
Best Regards,
Nicholas
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