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Creation Myth of the Gaetani

By CS on February 18, 2006 4:57 am | 10 Comments
Sea and Sun, the Great Dragon, the Moons, the Wolf and the Monkey, lots of incestuous God children.

Further Monkey Business.

By Dylan on June 23, 2006 5:05 pm
What Monkey can do for you, to you, and with you, why, how, and whose thumb she herself lives under.

Gaetani Shadows

By CS on September 13, 2005 9:41 pm | 5 Comments
The shadows are a relatively weak form of monster native to Gaetan. They appear as shadows, but are capable of motion independent of their source. Generally, they are only capable of frightening and confusing, but at their greatest strength, they are capable suffocating and killing the old, the weak, and the particularly susceptible.

Monkey at the River

By Dylan on April 1, 2006 6:32 pm | 9 Comments
A folktale in which Monkey meets Man and Woman at the river. From the Monkey crone oral tradition.

Monkey Business

By Dylan on December 10, 2005 3:18 pm | 3 Comments
A longish survey of Monkey social structure and magical properties. This is what Sonata will hear if Ilba gets her brother's bones from Calvus. If anything seems terribly incompatible or awry, jump right in. There's nothing in here on the Monkey God himself, just sociology.

Priests of the Judge

By CS on February 3, 2005 2:30 am | 1 Comment
The Judge is the incestuous child of the White Moon and his sister, the Pole Star. The Judge sits in waiting for the end of the World, when he will judge the souls of the dead, feeding those with whom...

Salmon of Gaetan

By CS on February 10, 2005 2:08 am | 2 Comments
Life blood of Gaetan, the salmon are the great gift of the Sea (mother of three of the Celestial Gods) to humanity. They boil through the narrow straits of the Inner Channels, and practically throw themselves into the nets of...

The Four Evil Gods of the Gaetani

By CS on February 3, 2005 1:59 am | 1 Comment
The Great Dragon, parthenogenic daughter of the Earth, created many children in imitation of the Celestial children of the Sun and the Sea. Most of these were merely monsters, some of which still haunt the Gaetani countryside. However, four of...

The Gætani Celestial Gods

By Kip Manley on February 6, 2005 2:16 pm
Known in Gætani as: Ninak Tobhi’; Tobhi’pa’: the White Moon; White Moon priestsNinak Homma; Hommato’pa’: the Red Moon; Red Moon priestsNinak Hattak; Hattako’pa’: the Green Moon; Green Moon priestsHashaatabookoli’: the South Star, the Pole Star The White Moon priests are...

The Lover Priesthood of Gaetan

By CS on February 4, 2005 3:22 am | 1 Comment
The lover priesthood is the most powerful that is predominantly female. There is a male adjunct to the lover priesthood, the hunter priesthood (which is actually not primarily concerned with hunting), but it is much smaller and less powerful. Hunter...

The Prince's Millers

By CS on February 3, 2005 3:19 am
After the slaughter of the Miller Priests at the end of the war, the Prince created an order of officials loyal to himself, and outside the usual priestly order. These officials fill the non-magical roles of the Millers, milling grain,...

The Village Priesthoods of Gaetan

By CS on February 3, 2005 2:48 am | 1 Comment
The village priesthoods of Gaetan provide the backbone and organizing principle of the common Gaetani society. Almost everyone in a Gaetani village belongs to at least one priesthood, and the priesthoods oversee almost every aspect of village life. The priesthoods...