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| Topic Started: Aug 31 2008, 02:30 PM (831 Views) | |
| ChumZar | Aug 31 2008, 02:30 PM Post #1 |
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What would the fiction of another sophont be? Like, their mithological creatures, super heros, or even religion (though that wouldn't be considered fiction by some). |
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| Livyatan | Aug 31 2008, 02:38 PM Post #2 |
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I suppose extraterrestrial religions could be much like ours or completely different. For instance, my 'starfish aliens' have a form of human worship. Except they are the 'masters', they control humans. They lack any form of spiritual god since they live a very secular existence, never worrying about anything beyond living their lives to the fullest. |
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| Ànraich | Aug 31 2008, 05:30 PM Post #3 |
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My universe's sophonts have all kinds of religions. The zoasapiens worship life, for example. All living organisms are sacred to them. The Sadar, on the other had, regard all non-Sadar intelligent life as unworthy and work to destroy it. Human religions are some of the most diverse in the universe. Most other sophonts do not have as diverse of cultures as humans do and mostly practice one religion (or sects of the same). The Calitherians (the aliens in my story Truly the Gods are Strange) worship humans, but aren't aware of it. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Carlos | Aug 31 2008, 05:36 PM Post #4 |
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I've never worked on exobiology, but I did designed a sentient specie from a parallel Earth with several distinct religions, like humans do (maybe because it is another sentient primate, a lemur) |
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| CarrionTrooper | Sep 1 2008, 10:11 AM Post #5 |
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I require more vespene gas?!?
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An interesting thread this is! Maybe they have, instead of monotheistic (or theistic, for that matter) religions, zen-like religions that attribute their happening from the reasoning of the mind? Or, for a warmongering race, the ritual of combat is their religion. Basically anything they consider self-theraputic to the soul. Even if it involves genetically engineering other races to oblivion! |
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| lamna | Sep 1 2008, 12:22 PM Post #6 |
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Monotheism is likely to do well. Polytheism can absorb other gods, but monotheism can not as so pushs to defeat other religions. I expect many alien gods (at least the early concept of them) will be the same as humans. A bigger version of the dominate gender. Edited by lamna, Sep 1 2008, 12:25 PM.
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| Carlos | Sep 1 2008, 12:46 PM Post #7 |
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Or perhaps aliens with the body of a sentient specie and the head of one that isn't, like the gods of Egypt, which have human bodies with animals heads
Edited by Carlos, Sep 1 2008, 12:47 PM.
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| Ànraich | Sep 21 2008, 12:36 PM Post #8 |
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That's interesting too. Perhaps like early Earth religions, they'll be based on things their society needs. A race with a small population (possibly due to their way of reproduction) might worship a god of fertility. One with a specific kind of food (like an herbivore or carnivore) might worship a god or animals/plants (perhaps food would be a better word). Maybe they will even have a religions with two kinds of gods. Lower and higher gods. They worship the lower and higher gods, while the lower gods worship the higher gods. Worshiping the gods of the gods. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Cynovolans | Sep 21 2008, 08:20 PM Post #9 |
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Maybe a form of worship can be created from themselves. The upper ones telling the slaves we are the Gods so the slaves would want to work for them. Worked with pharaohs, why not aliens? |
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