I'm sure you'll hear plenty about the major religions of my planet from others, and this isn't my area of expertise, but back home it's a series of actions - - the standard burning of incense, formal prayer, almsgiving, that you'll find anywhere - done to please a god or gods, who are simultaneously part of a great spirit permeating all that exists and intensely local to a particular shrine of a city, village tree, crossroads... It's the actions more than the intent that appear to matter in general, and it can be easily reduced to superstition. It's not considered incompatible with Buddhism, strangely. [He referenced the River Styx, she'll expect him to understand Buddhism.]
I thought it was all nonsense until I met a few of our higher deities. I still don't know where I stand with them.
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I'm sure you'll hear plenty about the major religions of my planet from others, and this isn't my area of expertise, but back home it's a series of actions - - the standard burning of incense, formal prayer, almsgiving, that you'll find anywhere - done to please a god or gods, who are simultaneously part of a great spirit permeating all that exists and intensely local to a particular shrine of a city, village tree, crossroads... It's the actions more than the intent that appear to matter in general, and it can be easily reduced to superstition. It's not considered incompatible with Buddhism, strangely. [He referenced the River Styx, she'll expect him to understand Buddhism.]
I thought it was all nonsense until I met a few of our higher deities. I still don't know where I stand with them.