In Poul Anderson's World Without Stars, inhabitants of a planet in intergalactic space worship our galaxy as God.
In Anderson's "Hunters of the Sky Cave," the Ardazirho believe that a nebula:
The Sky Cave
Unborn Planets
- is the abode of the dead.
In Anderson's "Sargasso of Lost Planets," inhabitants of most planets near the Black Nebula either worship the Nebula or believe that it is the home of the gods. The inhabitants of the nearest planet, Heim, sacrifice foods, furs and tools which they claim the gods take.
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Kaor, Paul!
In his article "Building THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE," Jerry Pounelle discussed how he and Larry Niven wrote that novel. The first draft they eventually came up with was too long and needed some cutting. One of the bits left out was how the Church of Him came to be founded. The article was included in Pournellle's A STEP FARTHER OUT.
And one thing to remember about the Ardazirho intelligence offer Svantozik is that his non stock oath "Great unborn planets" was not religious in meaning. It seems to have been coined by him because he knew that a proto-sun and its planets were coalescing in that nebula.
We do see Svantozik using a religious oath. Many of the Ardazirho thought of the nebula mentioned above as a Sky Cave leading to their version of hell. We see Svantozik saying once, "May the Sky Cave eat me."
Sean
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