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The Saurian Cosmology is a [[poem]] recorded from the [[Lizardfolk]] oral tradition by, as the historian and divinity student K———— wrote, "an unlucky series of flavorful graduate students." In his epigraph on the subject, | The Saurian Cosmology is a [[poem]] recorded from the [[Lizardfolk]] oral tradition by, as the historian and divinity student K———— wrote, "an unlucky series of flavorful graduate students." The name is a scholarly invention; the true [[Draconic]] name of the work is unknown. In his epigraph on the subject, K———— writes: | ||
<blockquote>Like those of many tribal peoples, [[Lizardfolk]] beliefs are varied, informal, syncretic, and variously expressed. Common to almost all tribes is a belief in an entity known as [[The Mother]], the progenitor of the universe and creator of the Lizardfolk, who after creation left the surface for the warm, dank caverns at the heart of the Earth. In the Mother’s absence, a vast roster of minor gods – generally euhemerized ancestors, culture heroes, borrowed foreign gods, and saurifications of natural phenomena – governs the sacred. Some illustration of this can be found in the so-called “Saurian Cosmology.”</blockquote> | <blockquote>Like those of many tribal peoples, [[Lizardfolk]] beliefs are varied, informal, syncretic, and variously expressed. Common to almost all tribes is a belief in an entity known as [[The Mother]], the progenitor of the universe and creator of the Lizardfolk, who after creation left the surface for the warm, dank caverns at the heart of the Earth. In the Mother’s absence, a vast roster of minor gods – generally euhemerized ancestors, culture heroes, borrowed foreign gods, and saurifications of natural phenomena – governs the sacred. Some illustration of this can be found in the so-called “Saurian Cosmology.”</blockquote> | ||
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the fish, the stones. The greatest of her brood | the fish, the stones. The greatest of her brood | ||
became the gods, the numberless, who berth | became [[the gods]], the numberless, who berth | ||
among the stars. The Mother, to ensure | among the stars. The Mother, to ensure | ||
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that all should be maintained, formed from the crude | that all should be maintained, formed from the crude | ||
clay of the earth the lizard folk to rule | clay of the earth the [[lizard folk]] to rule | ||
over creation. Then the Mother turned | over creation. Then the Mother turned | ||
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night sky and warred together, raising hordes | night sky and warred together, raising hordes | ||
of monstrous men and elves, their blood like pools | of monstrous [[men]] and [[elves]], their blood like pools | ||
of wine staining the stone of their tall keeps. | of wine staining the stone of their tall keeps. | ||
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her lizard children, made the waters flow | her lizard children, made the waters flow | ||
and placed her egg, the moon, into the skies | and placed her egg, the [[moon]], into the skies | ||
to rule the tides. When the gods' final war | to rule the tides. When [[the gods' final war]] | ||
destroys the earth, she will emerge anew | destroys the earth, she will emerge anew | ||