See, now you're making me want to read them... And as I say, I know someone who has copies... Hmmm...
But yeah, I'm sure some of the things I used to love when I was thirteen fall into the category of "indescribably awful", so I probably should be more tolerant (this is the main Lesson What I Have Learned This Week... ;D)
Yeah, well human sacrifice as part of their indigenous belief system - who are we to judge? ;D I've been reading up on pagan religious practices (including some hippy trippy neo-pagan stuff about horned gods and lunar goddesses etc which is utter tosh from a historical/anthropological viewpoint (there WAS NO "witch-cult", people - that's by way of being the moral of the whole sorry story, if history ever has morals!), but there's material there to be used, I think, provided you don't go unwittingly trashing anybody's RL belief systems). And I was reminded about that Arab slave-trader's description of the Viking-age pagan shrine at (I think!) Uppsaala in Sweden...and the very specially-decorated sacred tree they allegedly had there...which is an absolutely horrific sort of mental image I _have_ to get into the story somehow! Er, because, you know...well, just because...
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But yeah, I'm sure some of the things I used to love when I was thirteen fall into the category of "indescribably awful", so I probably should be more tolerant (this is the main Lesson What I Have Learned This Week... ;D)
Yeah, well human sacrifice as part of their indigenous belief system - who are we to judge? ;D I've been reading up on pagan religious practices (including some hippy trippy neo-pagan stuff about horned gods and lunar goddesses etc which is utter tosh from a historical/anthropological viewpoint (there WAS NO "witch-cult", people - that's by way of being the moral of the whole sorry story, if history ever has morals!), but there's material there to be used, I think, provided you don't go unwittingly trashing anybody's RL belief systems). And I was reminded about that Arab slave-trader's description of the Viking-age pagan shrine at (I think!) Uppsaala in Sweden...and the very specially-decorated sacred tree they allegedly had there...which is an absolutely horrific sort of mental image I _have_ to get into the story somehow! Er, because, you know...well, just because...