Hira
Lady of the Rivers, Maiden of Three Waters
Hira is the goddess of the waters, and one of the first children of Amárië. She is first mentioned in ancient prayers to the shapers of the world, where she is discribed as the time keeper, the maiden of three waters. Among most Majan, she is worshipped as a fertility goddess. Her name is first mentioned on an inscription by Rûnic nomads by the Falls of Hira, in which they carved her name into the rock and praised her as being the font of their life. There aren't many temles to her, as she does not like to be confined to a single place, but one should prayer to her by the bank of a river.
Divine Domains
Hira is a goddess of the mortal realm, and one of it's creaters. Though her home is in the water's of the First River, she wanders all waters of the world.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Catfish, Herons, Snails, Waterlilies, and Cattails are all symbols of Hira. Waterlilies and Cattails are also potent magical ingredients in potions. In art, she is often depicted as a Heron, or a fountain of water. She has no magical sigils, since her magic is permeable and so changeable.
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
Her skin is brown, with patches of scales and pale blonde hair like the mist from a waterfall.
Special abilities
She can see the minds and hearts of mortals when they are submerged in her waters, and she can pull memories from them there. Indeed, in the First River, there are many ripples of memory that she has chosen. She alone can find the First River, and rarely, she has chosen to bring others there. Her first three children guard each river.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Hira was created from the Thought of the All-Mother, and sent to the earth by her with a vial of water from the womb. When she poured it out, time began, and the first river flowed forth. From it, came the second and third. When Aja slept, and the first winter froze the waters, she advocated for her siblings to stay calm, and wait for the the sun to emerge again. She was also the first to fall asleep, and she was soon covered with ice as she lay in the river. Her siblings stood around her, guarding her. When she awoke and the water melted, she gave birth to three daughters she named, Saeth, Sirsa, and Sisthne. These were the first beings born on earth. Seath was born with a great wave, that washed her down the river away from her mother's arms, and out to sea, where she grew up among the kelp and the salt, but then, seeing Hira's distress, her brother Parrion wove a net from reeds and caught the next child as she was born. This child, Sirsa was caught in the reeds, and emerged in a clam shell. When the shell opened, she stepped out, fully grown and wearing scaley armor. The third daughter emerged as a lily bud, and when the flower bloomed, she emerged. As the second river emerged from the snowmelt of the first, she set Sirsa to guard it, and Sisthne to guard the first. Hira and her siblings then worked to create humanity, and as they formed shapes from the mud, she decided that humans should carry their young inside them, and so took an empty clam shell and buried it in their stomachs, and placed a seed inside the shell, from which all new life would grow. As they worked, Hira became with child again, and gave birth to a son, she named Saan. She had many other children after that, though she never married.
Sexuality
Hira is a goddess with the power to spontaniously create life, and thus there is no mention of her ever having a sexual or romantic partner.
Morality & Philosophy
Hira is relatively tranquil compared to other gods. She is not often stirred to intefere with mortals, and her perception of them is limited. She can only see their minds when they are submerged in water. She dislikes having temples dedicated to her, and prefers that one float their offerings down a river, or erect a small totem nearby. She rarely uses her power on mortals, and so it is easy to forget it, but to work with her, one must have complete trust in her, and give up all control, allowing themselves to be caught in her current.
Taboos
Herons, Kingfishers, Catfish, and snails are all sacred animals to her, as well as water lilies. If a hunter is ever to slay one of these creatures, and even a drop of blood falls into the water, the hunter will be drowned.
Fishermen must never clean their fish upstream of where they were cought, and must leave one fishhead on the shore as thanks.
Divine Classification
Earthshaper
Species
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Realm
Church/Cult
Family
Children
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Eyes
Dark gray like river stones
Hair
white blonde, wavy, moves on it’s own
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Brown Skin, slightly scaled skin
Aligned Organization
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