Storm Gods

The Storm Gods are the Young Gods who created and shaped the Minotaurs of Caino.

The Great Gods

First among the Storm Gods, Rastan the Divider is however a primal deity, with no manifestation save for the lightning itself. Even his name comes from the minotaur word for lightning: Oras ta-an; that which divides. As the lightning splits the darkness, so Rastan divided earth from sky, life from the inanimate, night from day. They split the mountains to create the Moblands, split great boulders to release the first minotaur and smaller rocks to create their herds. They split the Elder Mountain Urthu and released Urthara the Earthdriver from the stone, and split the sky itself to draw down Asteroth the Stormherd from the clouds.
As a primal god, Rastan has few priests, instead being an overarching figure in the cults of other gods. His symbol is the fulgurite, and the few mystics who do choose him as their patron carry spears tipped with jagged, fulgurite blades.
The high gods of the Storm are Asteroth the Stormherd and Urthara the Earthdriver, high deities of the great mobs and now primary gods of the Thunderhead Dominion. They share much of Rastan's primal nature which ill suits them to act as Culture Gods, but their power and primacy are respected and their temples in each Circle of the Dominion house the shrines of all lesser gods.
Asteroth is the god of the sky and the storm, master of the Cloud Herds, who gave the minotaurs the gifts of fury, mastery, prophecy and freedom. He takes the form of a towering cloud, with the head and lower body of a bull, and the arms and torso of a titan, its body crackling with internal lightning. His priests tend towards a bombastic style, and carry symbols of the anvil shape of a storm cloud. Urthara is the goddess of the earth and the mob, breaker of stones and shaker of the ground, who gave the minotaurs the gifts of patience, understanding, memory and order. She takes the form of a great, mountainous minotaur with flesh of stone. Her priests speak rarely, but forcefully, and bear the sign of a disc, marked with a triangle.
Minotaur philosophy insists that whichever of the gods' gifts one considers the greatest, all are greater when combined. Fury without patience is mere chaos, but patience without fury is apathy, and so on. This is why Asteron and Urthara share a single temple in any location.
Two more of Rastan's children are revered, if not necessarily worshipped. Tauron and Agelade are the first Minotaur, mythic progenitors of the entire race and notional ancestors of the entire lineage. Their shrines always sit at the foot of their parents' statues. Tauron is the god of defence, defiance and life, Agelade of plenty, wealth and death.

The Lesser Gods

The lesser gods are the children of earth and sky. While the progenitors of the minotaur are their siblings, it was the Lesser Gods who taught the mortal minotaur more specific cultural gifts. Each of them represents a union of one divine trait from Asterion, and one from Urthara.
Born of the sky's brilliance and the earth's patience, Iserith the Windwalker is the goddess of light and truth. Her aspect is a winged minotaur. Her symbol is the winged star. She represents the spiritual and aspiring part of the minotaur nature, giving the gifts of inquiry, compassion and ambition. As a patroness of questioning and social mobility she is more popular with the common people than with the great and the good, and so her shrines tend to be simple and unadorned.
Similarly, Asterion the Bloodbound, bearing his mother's resilience and his father's fury, is a god of the people. God of violence and battle, he is something of an anarchist. He takes the aspect of a minotaur with hands dripping blood and his symbol is the double-headed axe. He represents the instinctual, destructive part of the minotaur collective psyche, and gives the gifts of power, courage and battle-lust, all of which draws support from the military.
Karvan the Nightborn  is the goddess of darkness and childbirth, born of the storm's darkness and the cool, fertile earth, and taking the aspect of a a horned figure with robes and flesh of starry night. Her symbol is a circle, representing both her hood and the moon. She represents both the concealing and the nurturing elements of the minotaur nature, and is popular with the great and the humble alike. Her gifts are dreams, endurance and secrecy, and she is the god who protects that which matters the most.
Knossor the Stonepiler, with earth's strength and the storm's mobility, is the god of building and journeys, and also popular with minotaur of all walks of life. He takes the form of a stone-skinned minotaur carrying the hammer and quill which are his symbols. He is the creative and inventive part of the minotaur nature, giving the gifts of strategy, cartography, architecture and construction. While the soldiers of the Dominion worship Asterion, the army's official shrines revere Knossor, who represents a check on his brother's excesses.
Eldorn the Fleshbinder is the god of husbandry and healing, representing the life-giving waters of the storm and the nurturing earth that receives them. Taking the form of a silver-furred minotaur, his symbol is the curved blade, not of a sword or axe, but a lancet. He is the caring and enduring aspect of the minotaur being, investing the race with medicine, herding and agriculture, and by extension standing as a god of wealth whose shrines go rich on the offerings of merchant dynasties.

Minotaur Religion

There are no established minotaur religious orders. Religion among the mobs is a personal matter, with extended chains of mentor and actolyte combining to give local and regional cults a collective flavour, but with wider hierarchical organisation always at odds with both the minotaur temperament and the nature of the gods themselves. Instead, relations between the local sects are moderated by the secular order and the custodians of the temples, who are responsible for maintaining all of the shrines in their keeping, rather than the service of any particular god.