The All-Mother: How Freyjaism Turned a Pantheon into One Goddess
In a Freyjaist temple the priestess stands barefoot on the stone. She always does, because the woman who founded the faith is said to have first heard the goddess through the soles of her feet. When the singing starts, the congregation falls silent and closes its eyes. The woman they are singing to, most historians now believe, really lived: an elvish leader and healer of the Alpine past, remembered for so long that memory became worship. The faithful would say she still lives. Both views sit side by side in the same pews, which tells you a good deal about religion in the Aldermark world.
In a Freyjaist temple the priestess stands barefoot on the stone. She always does, because the woman who founded the faith is said to have first heard the goddess through the soles of her feet. When the singing starts, the congregation falls silent and closes its eyes. The woman they are singing to, most historians now believe, really lived: an elvish leader and healer of the Alpine past, remembered for so long that memory became worship. The faithful would say she still lives. Both views sit side by side in the same pews, which tells you a good deal about religion in the Aldermark world.