Oqa Religion
Mythology & Lore
The Oqa have many myths and legends through which they pass on their traditions and oral history. These are just a couple of stories, as their mythology is vast and no one has ever collected all of them in a single tome, as well as each legend having many differing versions.
Before the People and the reindeer, there was only the vast, empty, icy, blue sea. It stretched on and on farther than you can ever imagine. There was no land, there was no ice, there was no mountains. Only the sea. The sky blew snow and water in endless torrents, but it all melted back into the sea. The sun and the moon did not shine. The stars did not twinkle. Only the sea. One day the sea swirled in waves like mountains, churning and blowing. The water whirled around in a funnel and all the snow and water and even the clouds were sucked in. And out of the whirlpool, the god Hol rose, and he was in charge of the sea and the cold, because that was where he came from. Hol churned the oceans with his fists and roared out his cold breath. And the water froze and became ice. He made lots of ice this way, but one day, Hol realized he was lonely. So he sat on the ice and pined for a companion. And the goddess Waashine appeared next him. And she was in charge of the family, because she was born when Hol pined for a family. She was tender and loving, but she was strong, too, the way a mother bear protects her cubs. Waashine dived down from Hol's ice, deep under the water, so far that she could see no light, but at last she felt earth under her fingers. She picked up a handful of mud, and swam all the way back up. And she showed to her husband, and together they created the land from Waashine's mud. They made the mountains in the south as the boundary to their protection, and then the snow fell on the new land. And one day,
Founding Date
It is unknown when the Oqa pantheon first developed
Type
Religious, Pantheon
Divines
Location
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