Cthuung
Divine Domains
Cthuung comes once every year to steal Txiin fertility and chase the fish out of her river. It puts Txuuk to sleep, covering them with a thin white blanket of snow, and distance the harsh rays of Tkin, turning the land into a cool bliss. The life-giving rains of Kthiintl become beautiful still snowflakes, rains frozen in time. Its primary domain is rest, but many aspects fall into this category, including: sleep, night, and the moon; winter, the season of hunting instead of farming, and shed antlers; and death, bones, and permanent slumber. Smoking tobacco has a close association with resting and relaxation, and so the plant also belongs to the Cthuung ideas. It is the opposite of birth, and women associate it with their time of infertility. It is not vilified; instead, they are part of the cycle of life, a welcome rest.
Its association with night also brings into its domain darkness, and stealth. This includes not just physical stealth, but general not-knowing, the unknown, a break from knowing, a rest from learning. Not knowing about something is a sort of rest, because with knowing something comes worrying about it or caring about it, but if it's not known, the not-knower doesn't have to worry about it. They can rest.
Its association with night also brings into its domain darkness, and stealth. This includes not just physical stealth, but general not-knowing, the unknown, a break from knowing, a rest from learning. Not knowing about something is a sort of rest, because with knowing something comes worrying about it or caring about it, but if it's not known, the not-knower doesn't have to worry about it. They can rest.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Symbols of Cthuung include shed antlers, since deer shed their antlers before winter. Snow and the color white are also strongly associated with it, and the cold. Also, aspects of rest, such as night, sleep, and the moon. Symbols of death, such as bones, are also strongly associated. Metal an also be associated with Cthuung since they're always cold.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Unlike the other deities, Cthuung is not a living creature. The others are elements of the world personified, such the wind as a person who consciously makes choices, can be appeased, and has relationships to the others. Cthuung has never has a body, a mind, a form of any kind. In a story "The earth protected me" conjurse the image of the person Txuuk themself acting on behalf of them. In contrast, "Cthuung gave me a deep, restoring rest" does not invoke a person doing anything. They are thinking of the attitude of sleep, an essence of rest, sweeping into them. Cthuung is a time. It is a state.
Even though Cthuung is aphysical, as abstract as a season, it still can appear as part of the pantheon with the other deities. Not as an equal, a character in the divine stories, but rather Cthuung is as a symbol of the fact that all things, all elements of the world, all aspects of nature, are temporal, are temporary, and cycle through death and life.
Even though Cthuung is aphysical, as abstract as a season, it still can appear as part of the pantheon with the other deities. Not as an equal, a character in the divine stories, but rather Cthuung is as a symbol of the fact that all things, all elements of the world, all aspects of nature, are temporal, are temporary, and cycle through death and life.
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