I would want to know about:
their theologies;
the interactions between their mythologies, theologies and philosophies;
the relationship between their philosophies and the growth of empirical science.
Poul Anderson did address precisely these issues in the Terrestrial context. However, when writing fiction, much of it action-adventure fiction or space opera, he told us just enough about Merseian attitudes to the God and about the Ythrian response to God the Hunter. There are tantalizing hints like the Secret Prayers of the Vach Urdiolch. We know that there must have been a lot more but it is left to us to imagine it.
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Kaor, Paul!
SECRET Prayers unique to the Vach Urdiolch strikes me as rather odd! That is certainly not how Jews and Christians prefer to do it, our prayers being in public for anyone to see, read, or use. Ranging from shared prayers like the Book of Psalms to prayers distinctively used by Jews (such as the Kaddish) or the "Dies Ira" of the Catholics. Or even Poul Anderson's poem "Prayer in War."
Ad astra! Sean
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