| Natea | Nelat | Noruma | Nyanka | Nysalor |
Natea is not depicted in merman culture.
He is shown in Waertagi images as a bald man, robed, carrying two shells full of water.
He is usually shown as a man wearing an animal skin, carrying a tall drum, a double-gourd canteen, and wearing a string of flints.
Her image is often carved into the living wood of a nyanka tree, consisting for the most part of bulging breasts and belly, a serene face, and distinctive pregnancy earrings.
At the end of the Dawn Ages the hubris of mortals reached its ultimate form when they sought to create a perfect god. At his birth terrible portents shook the world and a great struggle began which lasted almost a century.
Nysalor is not now worshiped for Arkat the Destroyer killed and dismembered the god, and scattered the pieces across the worlds. The story of Nysalor is well known and often repeated as a moral tale. Most people know only parts of the whole story.
No images of the living god survive. He is depicted in Pelorian manuscripts as a radiant man, floating above the ground in a pose of cross-legged meditation.
Nelat [NEE-lat]
Merman pantheon -- god of purification
Nelat is Purifying Water, and those who wish to be bathed and begin life anew must gain his aid. He is also one of those gods who must be passed if a worshiper wishes to gain access to his father, the Lord of Wisdom.Noruma [noe-RROO-mah]
Pamalt pantheon -- the chieftain of magic
Noruma knows all the spells and spirits of the world. The Horned God creates shamans, but Noruma trains and teaches them.Nyanka [n'YAHNK-uh]
Pamalt pantheon -- mother of life and childbirth
During the Green Age, Mother Nyanka walked across the world and blessed the land. When the Bad Times came, the land dried up, and the people saw the true meaning of her blessing. Every place where Mother Nyanka had slept during her journeys became a green oasis. She also used her generative powers to teach people how to make children.Nysalor [NIGH-suh-lor]
Lunar and Yelm pantheons -- the bright one, the illuminator, god of illumination
see also Gbaji, Red Goddess
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