Asdrashari_Tales
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I'm inspired by eastern cultures and am keen to have a quartet of deities implemented in my worldbuilding (myths and tales will come soon when the time comes).
As I wanted the deities to be as relatable as possible, I have chosen each one of them to represent a basic necessity of life that is deemed fundamental in east Asian culture: clothing (衣), food (食), shelter/home (住) and travelling (行).
Let me introduce you to some formed ideas before talking about what I am stuck on:
Horkew Ōkamui (狩する(ホロケウ)大神威), Patron of ceremonies, Upholder of rites and the Grand Tailor, is a white lupine god who embodies the aspect of clothing. Originally a wind deity, after seeing his followers freezing to death from his northern wind, he bestowed the first clothing to them in order to keep that warm. Horkew Ōkamui is also known as the Naked Wolf, after a myth where he witnessed a peasant freezing in the snow and ignored by well-dressed rich people, he took a knife and skinned his pelt the peasant. His sacrifice in this myth gave birth to the practice of gifting clothing during the Winter Solstice to reenact this gift. As clothing eventually turned more sophisticated as tailoring techniques advanced and clothing playing a key societal role, Horkew Ōkamui then adopted responsibilities of ceremonies, rites, formalities and etiquette. Those who witnessed him described the god as androgynous in appearance and looked good in either male or female clothing.
That was the most fleshed-out deity out of the quartet.
In my mind I also have Fufu (𛂱々), a tigrine goddess who is the embodiment of home/hearth. Her role was to shelter her followers. She is the wife of Horkew Ōkamui and is often worshipped along him.
For Fufu and the remaining two deities, I have yet to think of a catchy triplet title for her or an associated myth yet.
I do want to:
- Have the remaining deities of food and travelling to be a married couple, also one canine and one feline.
- Have the deities based on animals of Hokkaido/Kurils/Kamchatka/Pacific north Asia.
Seeing how messy the Greek pantheon is, I'm also open to have them cheat on one another or sleep with mortals because that somehow makes them more human, but let's see how that goes.
I am also inspired by how the ancient Greeks perceived Egyptian gods and vice versa, so I am quite keen to have the different cultures I came up with interpreting these deities differently.
If anyone has any ideas please feel free to discuss them here!
As I wanted the deities to be as relatable as possible, I have chosen each one of them to represent a basic necessity of life that is deemed fundamental in east Asian culture: clothing (衣), food (食), shelter/home (住) and travelling (行).
Let me introduce you to some formed ideas before talking about what I am stuck on:
Horkew Ōkamui (狩する(ホロケウ)大神威), Patron of ceremonies, Upholder of rites and the Grand Tailor, is a white lupine god who embodies the aspect of clothing. Originally a wind deity, after seeing his followers freezing to death from his northern wind, he bestowed the first clothing to them in order to keep that warm. Horkew Ōkamui is also known as the Naked Wolf, after a myth where he witnessed a peasant freezing in the snow and ignored by well-dressed rich people, he took a knife and skinned his pelt the peasant. His sacrifice in this myth gave birth to the practice of gifting clothing during the Winter Solstice to reenact this gift. As clothing eventually turned more sophisticated as tailoring techniques advanced and clothing playing a key societal role, Horkew Ōkamui then adopted responsibilities of ceremonies, rites, formalities and etiquette. Those who witnessed him described the god as androgynous in appearance and looked good in either male or female clothing.
That was the most fleshed-out deity out of the quartet.
In my mind I also have Fufu (𛂱々), a tigrine goddess who is the embodiment of home/hearth. Her role was to shelter her followers. She is the wife of Horkew Ōkamui and is often worshipped along him.
For Fufu and the remaining two deities, I have yet to think of a catchy triplet title for her or an associated myth yet.
I do want to:
- Have the remaining deities of food and travelling to be a married couple, also one canine and one feline.
- Have the deities based on animals of Hokkaido/Kurils/Kamchatka/Pacific north Asia.
Seeing how messy the Greek pantheon is, I'm also open to have them cheat on one another or sleep with mortals because that somehow makes them more human, but let's see how that goes.
I am also inspired by how the ancient Greeks perceived Egyptian gods and vice versa, so I am quite keen to have the different cultures I came up with interpreting these deities differently.
If anyone has any ideas please feel free to discuss them here!