"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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteWe 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