Asta
Asta is the Goddess of Sex, but also of almost all related concepts. She is a fertility goddess, the goddess of love and beauty. First and foremost, she governs the domain of satisfaction, and the healthy pursuit thereof. Asta teaches that desires left unfulfilled decay into desperate lust and lead people to violence and depravity, and self-denial rarely leads anywhere healthy. (Delayed gratification, however, is a separate matter.)
The cult of Asta is the dominant religion of the common people. Governments claim to do things by the guidance of Ailsa Nadezhda, Irfan Uri, (and rarely, their sister Dima Sorgossa) but by a large margin the majority of worship actually done by the people is to Asta. Farmers, especially among the Khal'res, pray to her for crops and healthy livestock. Expectant mothers pray to her for healthy children.
Because of the prevalence (and cultural effects) of Asta's worship, lasting, permanent marriages are rare in Rhyduania, mostly practiced by the Khalvar dwarves and a rare few Nomoi.
The main core of Asta's dogma is doing what needs to be done to keep yourself happy and at peace (so long as it hurts no one else) even if that means chastity. Engaging in sexual activity you don't desire for is tantamount to being party to your own rape, and is therefore against everything Asta teaches.
The broad range of philosophies encompassed by Asta's worship has given rise to several, often very different, religious orders, and the clergy of each is correspondingly different in practice and belief. All, however, are directly opposed to Asta's sister, Talil, and her clergy.
Asta appears as a woman who is short in stature, standing just over five feet. She has seductively wide hips, stout thighs, and truly prodigious breasts. A cascade of fiery red curls and waves piles on to her shoulders, and she favors layers of transparent and semi-transparent green garments. Her lips always seem to be switching between mischievous and seductive smiles, and some of her clergy have been known to mark holy sites with stylized representations of her jade-green eyes.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A pair of tear drops side by side, symbolizing breasts.
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