Finally, a situation where my religious studies degree can come in handy! I'm assuming our goal is to incorporate the Moths without insulting their spirits too much or turning the Glimmerlings to heresy. With that in mind, here's what I've got.
[]Plan: They're Yours, My Friend, As Long As You Hate Enough Ruin
-[]The Droman Creed acknowledges the Star Child (along with the Five both as a whole and individually) as its only object of worship and the most fitting object of worship. This has not changed.
-[]However, past events have shown that the Star Child sometimes chooses to direct their focus towards matters outside the Federation and the parts of the galaxy it interacts with, and the example of Mothome has shown that it is possible for supernatural beings that are not the Star Child to give mortals aid without leading them down the path of Ruin.
-[]Therefore, since we freely admit that we do not know everything there is to know about the divine, we must acknowledge that it is possible for the Eleven Spirits of Mothome and similar beings to be the results of some design of the Star Child (or another of the Five, or the Five collectively) to give aid and guidance to mortals while the Star Child focuses their attention elsewhere.
-[]The nature of these helper beings is not known at this time. They may be saints given a special task after death, beings created especially for their work, or something else entirely. It is possible we may never understand the matter completely. Therefore, we must be cautious about speculating on them. All that we can say for certain at this time is that any being that leads people to Ruin is absolutely not worthy of worship and any worship of such Ruinous beings must be stamped out as much as possible.
-[]Those peoples who worship non-Ruinous beings, as the Eleven Spirits of Mothome currently seem to be, are not to be considered heretics, since they are worshipping something good and likely did not (or could not) know of the Star Child before encountering the Federation, but they are to be considered in need of correction, albeit gentle correction. All efforts to convert these peoples to the Droman Creed should be continued, but care must be taken to avoid too heavy a hand in our efforts.
If this sounds like how Christians justify praying to saints, well, it kind of is that, except that the Glimmerlings will probably expect the peoples they meet to give up worship of their "saints" eventually as the missionaries get to work. Whether they actually give up their saints or not, who knows.
