Land of Lions Lore : Worship (Patreon)

Religion is always a thing you have to consider when worldbuilding! At its most basic, here are some religious practices in Chorsida! With sketches from my notebooks. I suppose this gives a  glimpse at the type of margin-doodles I have in my notebooks. Sometimes it's easier to draw something than describe it. 

WORSHIP___________________________________________________________________

HOW TO PRAY

• Bow your head and touch your forehead with the fore finger / middle finger / ring finger of your left hand

SYMBOL OF THE GODS

• Eleven triangles, one for each go

TYPES OF SHRINES

• Falcons = Church
• Crow = Roman style temple (open air with pillars and a roof)
• Mouse = garden shrines (surrounded by flowers)
• Crocodile = open air shrines (sacred ground and stone monoliths)
• Addax = worship before a sword / weapon thrust into the ground
• Buffalo = yard shrines
• Tiger = indoor household shrines
• Panther = no shrine - just meditation (the mind is a temple)
• Lion = Temples (lots of colored tiles and mosaics)
• Jackal = Mountain top temple
• Firefly = pilgrimage location in Beacon village center (a fallen star location)

TALISMEN

• Necklaces with pendants on them that have some kind of symbol representing an individual god. Or the symbol for all the gods.

FUNERALS

• The dead are usually burned on a funeral pyre. The style of pyre differs between areas.
• LIONS:
  • pyre out in the desert, burned alongside ten other bonfires
• TIGERS:
  • pyre is on a boat on the water, a weapon is burned with the dead
• PANTHERS:
  • pyre under the stars, loved ones write letters to burn with the pyre
• CROWS:
  • pyre is burned on the ocean, everyone feasts afterward
• FALCONS:
  • pyre is burned in front of a church, loved ones fast on that day
• CROCODILES:
  • pyre is on a boat in the water, the dead shrouded in white
• JACKALS:
  • pyre on a mountain top, they howl
• MICE:
  • pyre in the desert, the dead covered in flowers
• BUFFALO:
  • pyre in the fields, the ashes then buried and a tree planted on top
• ADDAX:
  • pyre in the desert, the living play music and dance around the pyre
• FIREFLIES:
  • pyre on the ocean, accompanied by lanterns