Uluru

"As the camel below me gave out her breath I knew that I would be next. There was nothing around me but rolling dunes, sand, sand and damndable sand. As we tumbled, my creature and I, to the ground I let out a prayer. No sooner had we crashed to the scorching grains did the winds begin to shift. Through crusted slimy eyes I saw a swirling cyclone moving across the desert, but as it neared it seemed to focus on a single point and become less etherial and more solid until finally there dressed in an elegant white robe, trimmed with gold stood the goddess Uluru in all her glory. She chose the form of a thirty foot elf with large wings white and beautiful like a swan. With her pinions aloft she shielded me from the sun until night. She reached down and cradling my head, poured water from an unadorned leather skin covered in little spots of moss, into my mouth. As the water rushed down my throat and over my beard I felt my strength return, the water of Uluru filled my stomach replacing the hunger I'd felt. As the sun set I rose, alone, refreshed." - Exerpt from Vanti Ro's Mfusia Sands and Other Poems

Uluru is a kind godess who observes law, but within her there is a duality. She is a goddess who manages to embody both the harsh reality and the gentleness of the desert. She is the warmth of sand and the cool a few inches bellow as one digs in with toes squeeming. She is also the harsh burning grains of dunes. She is the sun that eats away the moisture from lips and the dusk that bring frost and dew and cold winds. She is brutal but with a reprieve. Uluru is the goddess of the sand and the open sky. She refreshed the desert sojourner, but punishes the fool.

Form

Uluru can take many forms, but she generally is depicted as either a shapeless whirlwind or when she chooses a humanoid form she is a twenty foot tall elf of immense beauty with large white swan like wings which she uses to cover her naked form.

Holy Site

Uluru is also the name of her holy site which is a lone rock in the middle of the Kallow Desert. Travel to the rock is arduous and many a pilgrim have been taken to Uluru's boosom while making the trek.

Relics

• The Wings of Uluru - a rumoured cape that gives one Ulur's wings
• Uluru's Shield

Enemies

Uluru despises shapeshifters and creatures of dual visage. She opposes all kinds of lycantrhopes and has contempt for evil desert creatrues especially dingos, hyenas, and gnolls.

Divine Domains

Life, Tempest, Nature
Provinces : Desert and crops.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

A circle with the shape of the holy rock usually with her swan wings spread wide behind the rock.

Tenets of Faith

• Lift up your brother or your sister in times of trouble, the winds will shift and some day you too will be parched to the bone.
• Prepare for calamity, the desert is an obstinate donkey, it cannot truely be tamed and suffers not the fool.

Holidays

Uluru's holy week, Radient Sol, begins 1 Nyogotha, the beginning of the deserts dry season. People of the desert celebrate after sundown on the first by living in freshly crafted tents away from their normal settlements. This breaks downt he barriers of wealth and reminds people of settlements about the joys and trials of living in the desert.

Uluru is based on a holy aboriginal site in the desert of Australia often incorrectly refered to as Ayers Rock. While no such godess exists in aboriginal lore this Godess plays homage to the holy site. For more information : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru

Divine Classification

Deity