the last voyages // 4. video. no filter except for t-x.

[tobecaprican]

Some corners of my culture happen to take religion literally.

[ Gaius is using video, and sitting in his cabin. The lights are currently playing up, as they're wont to do, reflecting off all the glass and chrome of his replicated expensive apartment. He has a cigarette, a cup of tea, and little better to do but seek some conversation to defeat nerves and loneliness.

But not lonely enough to go outside. Visibly on edge, but his voice is calm, where the video feed doesn't flutter. ]

As in, there are-- were-- colonials in the universe who would swear up and down the pantheon that we really did travel in a boat down the river Styx in the afterlife. [ ffrrzzzztttt ] easy to make fun of, but they'd be the ones laughing now, I suppose. I'm dead, and look where I ended up.

I suppose they [ ffrrzzzztttt ] ing pass.

I haven't talked religion in-- well. Ever since I've been here. Not something I miss, to be clear, but there's a

discrepancy

that I'd like to explore. So talk [ ffrrzzzztttt ] your beliefs, Bargeites. Earthers, witches, the lot of [ ffrrzzzztttt ] first and last time - I'm trying to get it out of the way and over with.



[ OOC: My terribleness -- posting and running! I will tag back solidly in a couple of hours, may sneak in a couple here and there beforehand. ]

Comments

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

No. [she caught the irony but this is serious business to her, Gaius] Myths about the ones you listed are considered part of Earth's cultural tradition even outside Greece, but they're treated as literary figures rather than literal gods to be worshipped. [She shakes her head with a rueful smile.] For all I know now, they're other names for who I met.

You're likely unfamiliar with the story of Izanagi, but it bears some notable parallels with your Orpheus. I met a few of the players in that legend.

[tobecaprican]

[ His eyebrows shoot up when the gods are recognised, and an incredulous, almost pleased grin breaks when they're referenced as literary. It's an odd shaped puzzle piece to the grander scheme of what Gaius is working out, but he knows it goes somewhere. ]

Right. You do get around, don't you?

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

Apparently so.

They're simply part of a dead religion where you're from, as well?

[tobecaprican]

It's not a dead religion.

Unfortunately.

Temples, prayers, incense burning and all that, in the name of the-- holy pantheon or however it is they think of it. I'm an atheist, myself - there're colonies more religious than others. But for the most part, no, it's not literature from some dead culture.

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

There are times I wish I could be an atheist. It made much more sense. [She says it more lightly than she means.]

But I wouldn't have thought the Greek pantheon of all the belief systems would have been a living religion in the future. What brought it about?

[tobecaprican]

It's.

It's sort've always been there. According to my history, we come from Kobol. The gods we worship-- or, rather, the gods that the superstitious worship-- are supposedly the lords of Kobol, who walked among us mere mortals 'til we left for the Colonies.

I don't know about Greek.

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

[well.]

They worshipped the same gods in Greece - on the other side of Earth - but a few thousand years ago. Christianity came through and claimed itself as the one true religion and forbade it, though, so I don't know where it came from or much of how it was practiced.

[tobecaprican]

That long ago.

Alright, I'll bite [ ffrzzzztttt ]stianity all about?

Oh, frakking--

[ He shakes the communicator. Yes, he's a legit computer programmer, why do you ask? ]

I was asking about Christianity, but maybe I shouldn't.

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

Truthfully, I don't know enough to properly inform you.

I suggest speaking with George Crabtree if you're interested.

[tobecaprican]

And who's that?

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

One of the wardens here. In charge of our chapel and practices it with an apparent degree of knowledge and sincerity, from what I know of him.

[tobecaprican]

Will he try to convert me or anything?

Because I've honestly not got the patience for that.

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

No, which is why I recommended him.

[tobecaprican]

Well, good. Then I might look into it, on a rainy day.

Or whatever counts as that, here.