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The <b>Saurian Cosmology</b> 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: | The <b>Saurian Cosmology</b> 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, | <blockquote>Like those of many tribal peoples, Lizardfolk beliefs are diverse, 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> | ||
The standard translation into the Common tongue comes from [[elf|Elven]] High Prefect [[Elandar Ancientblooded]]'s [[Crusader’s Guide to the Blasphemies of the Barbarous Races]], and is provided below. | The standard translation into the Common tongue comes from [[elf|Elven]] High Prefect [[Elandar Ancientblooded]]'s [[Crusader’s Guide to the Blasphemies of the Barbarous Races]], and is provided below. | ||