Yeah it’s like a smorgasbord covering thousands of years and hundreds of distinct mythologies and…
Ughhhh I don’t wanna world build a religionnnnn. Do you know how hard that is? To actually have one that isn’t either racist af of just Catholicism in a funny hat? Or a hand waved limited animism? And then blend it into the rest of society naturally? It takes so much effort. This is why I write minimally religious societies only sects. It’s so fucking harddddd.
I almost always go to ancient Egypt for inspiration, they had a different religion for everything and everyone and many that seem tailored to adaptation to various plot needs. Also, many are kinky af.
Egypt is helpful, if for no other reason that lasting so long that you’ve got a lot to pull from as different things came and went. Also had an interesting take on death/judgement/the afterlife that is useful for many fiction works. I assume you choose one sect/segment/time period as a start point
By the way I saw a title go by recently (did not stop to fully explore it) saying that the infamous Egyptian switch to monotheism and then back was not the scandalous, catastrophic, schism situation it’s often presented as. But that it did still end because of poorly timed plague.
Yeah it’s like a smorgasbord covering thousands of years and hundreds of distinct mythologies and practices and integrations with politics and social issues and all. It’s easy to identify a relevant one to a plot purpose (or was when google worked) and use it to inspire what I need. Usually the mythologies are ignored for something I design from imagination, or the story needs. But even when nothing applies, that either inspires what to do differently, or shows a flaw in my thinking because if Egypt didn’t do it in their time, there’s likely a reason it doesn’t really happen.
