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R'LIA, R'UNORIAN GODDESS OF LOVE |
One of the nine Gods worshipped at the
independent Kingdom of
R'unor. R'lia is the
Goddess of Romantic Love, Beauty, Happiness and Lightening. She
is often portrayed in epic poems, mythology, and religious artwork as both male
and female, containing not only female but male reproductive organs,
representing the perfect example of both male and female
beauty and desire. She is also the Goddess
of Happiness and joy, and all acts of love and pleasure
are said to be acts of worship to her. Finally R'lia is
also attributed to lightening, which many
R'unorian poets
interpret as "the sky making love to the ground".
Mythology. When the
universe divided itself, the sky
seperated from the ground and the sea. One of the first
Gods who formed from the sky was R'lia.
She looked down upon the world as the other
Gods were forming and smiled as life came
into being. But although
the creatures and plants were content,
they seemed unhappy to R'lia.
As R'lia watched the life the Gods gathered for they were all young and like the
universe that spawned they desired to understand
themselves. They discussed many things for many days, often arguing about the
form the world would take. After much time they decided to grant each creature
and plant and fish a pice of their essence.
And so R'lia gave the
beats joy and happyness.
She gave the creatures,
the fish and the birds the gift of the ability to
find pleasure in mating. Some even
say that she'll gave
it to the plants as well, but no-one except the plants knows for
sure.
Art/Temple design.
R'lia is one of the most common deities to be represented on pottery, mosaics,
paintings, etc. She is almost always portrayed as having both male and female
reproductive organs. Whenever she
is pictured she is portrayed as being extremely
beautiful, the perfect example of
both masculin and feminin features. Concerning temple
design the R'lia temples are usually
large open structures, sometimes with a large
glass dome over the top. In the north of the
building structure usually a
statue is erected representing the
Goddess. A
large bowl for offerings is placed
nearby. (Animal or human sacrifices
are forbidden, except for the
sacrifice of oneself and this is mindnumbingly uncommon.)
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