Cutaeus
Cutaeus, more formally known as Cuteaus of the Storm-Light, is the tempestuous divinity of storms. This has made Cuteaus the divinity most favored by sailors and others in professions which expose them to the whims of weather and wind. Surprising to some, the gnomes of the The Gnome Dunes have a strong bond with the mysteries of Cutaeus and have developed in whose mysteries they perceive a deep theological understanding of the relationship between order and change. “Change is the support of stability” is a proposition widely accepted by the gnomes of the dunes, who also keep the largest temple devoted to their favoried divinity.
Divine Domains
Typically, Cutaeus is associated with wind and weather, storm and sea. However, in truth, theirs is the domain of infinity within polarity, entropy within order, and change within stability.
Holy Books & Codes
There is a rich literature associated with Cutaeus, who is called by a number of different names by the various speaking people’s in the regions along and near the Sea of Shards. @The Four Faces of Cutaeus is the most canonical of texts centered on the mysteries of this Divinity, and is the one most likely to be referred to by clergy of the Temple of Light. However, other texts and myth cycles hold a high place among different folk. Gnomes hold the tales from @The Gnommenperl in high regard. The Orc of the @Ijzmond continue to pass down the @Kraggengrawd, a myth cycle which still exists in mostly oral form, and Dwarves, meanwhile, tell of the @Deeds of Dvumthellung.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
The most ubiquitous symbol of Cutaeus is some variation of the spiral storm. In some renderings the center of the spiral contains a pupiled eye. In other renderings the four faces of Cutaeus are drawn into the arms of the spiral, one facing down, one up, one left, and one right. The most gaudy symbols combine it all. When woven into fabrics or painted on surfaces, the spiral is typically a shade of silver, off-white or grey upon an indigo or dark-blue field. The @Sibling Storm, a somewhat fanatical monastic order devoted to Cuteaus uses twin spirals interlinked to into a kind of horizontal number eight.
Tenets of Faith
There are a myriad of tenents attributed to the mysteris of Cutaeus. Here is a running list:
- Change is stability.
- Adaptation is survival; stagnation is death.
- Adversity is growth.
- Preservation is motion.
- Though not an official tenent of the mysteries of Cutaeus, it has become a popular folk wisdom attributed to their teachings of embodying the calm in the storm: "Don't forget your pants".
Holidays
Though the teachings of Cutaeus seem to embrace the entropic aspects of existence, this has not stopped various folk from devising celebratory rituals bound either to specific calendar dates, such as the feast of Storm Constan among the humans around Eversun; cosmoligcal confluences, as with the Gnomes and the Goblin; or seasonal cycles as with the Orc whose celebration of Kraggen is a semi-spontaneous event which coincides with the first blizzard of the solar year. The Elves, both in the southern reaches as well as in the Sternboam, have the most curious practice. Devotees to Cutaeus randomly choose a date and location every year as the starting point for a travelling party of ritual combat, feasting, ingestion of curious mind-altering substances, and games with no small amount of debauchery.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
Stimulate life on the prime material plane to ever states of ever greater adaptability and resilience.
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