Let's give some other gods the spotlight and authority, such as the goddess of the Harvest. Plus, can you imagine how historians would look at us for having our grandest temple be dedicated to the harvest?
Uh...grand temples to harvest gods are the norm, not the outlier, they're only really in any competition with Thunderers and Solar gods.
Thor is a harvest god for one.
You rarely see Tricksters given pride of place however, only Sun Wukong get much respect, and then only after he was spanked and put in his place.
Yeah I am too... It might be brass but... we know the Thunder Horse have that so...
Hmm... maybe Tin? Yeah that may work as strategic since it is needed for Bronze and the other ingredient for Bronze, Copper, is also on there.
Tin, almost certainly. It can't be identified as an ore yet btw, nobody can smelt tin for a LONG time.
Very few. Although worthy of veneration, they are seen as being somewhat distant from common events as their significance is more primordial, although in some communities that place greater emphasis on ancestral veneration they become the ancestors of ancestors and thus have authority through being the most elder of spirits.
So basically boosts the importance of the clans as a religious basis.
Hmmm... Fythhagyna is usually depicted as a woman of about late twenties to early thirties holding a sickle in one hand and a fistful of wheat in another. The degree of dress varies from place to place, as well as whether or not she is pregnant and/or breastfeeding a child. Slap fights between shamans who think it disrespectful to show her naked and those who think it disrespectful to not show her naked are common.
Classic Demeter figure then.
Mathulmyn is almost more a common name for an idea than a proper god. There are three depictions depending on location: the first is a thoughtful man of middle age with elaborately braided hair and a full beard; the second is an elderly man with a truly long beard and bald held, hunched over either with age or to whisper advice into an ear; the third is a noble, matronly woman in fine dress reclining upon a chair and with a knowing smile.
So that's:
-Twythulmyn
-Bynwyn
-Magwyna
At least I think it's so.
Well, thinking about it, if the Thunder Horse don't have it themselves which seems likely given the lack of tin trade items, then it is probably the Eastern Nomads or some civ we don't know about out to the East who have access to the metal. And the Stallions just sent a trade caravan thataway so... *wiggles eyebrows*
Could be something.
Tin cannot be smelted at this tech level. You make bronze by adding the tin ore to copper ore during the smelting process, so the released tin vapors are captured by the copper at the right temperature.
Take a wild guess what the next phase of the arguments about the temple will be
But if they are not the central piece, then wouldn't the simple solution be to depict all of the forms?
Technically it's still there, it just hasn't gone back up to epidemic levels since it first arrived.
*Shudders*
Also I wonder if after this we will be able to make temples to the other gods as an extended project and if so maybe making a temple to the god of kings when we build the Palace will have some nice synergy?
Probably, but beware that temples in politically important places will rapidly gain spiritual dominance through royal sponsorship.
You should see the Atum-Ra debacle.
A second temple should probably give enough time for the concept of the first temple to permeate through everything.
