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(not common knowledge outside Babel and religious circles) According to popular Babelite myths such as The Birth of the Seven Sisters, Rinala (sometimes translated as "Life", "Immortality" or "Perpetual Life") was the name of the goddess who eventually became Sunala ("Death") when she and her sisters rebelled against and murdered the creator-god, Vael. However, less well known is that there are some theories that Rinala was in fact a predecessor of sorts to the pleasure goddess Inala -- That, long ago in Babel's history, two deities formed a sort of creative/destructive duality, one (Rinala) representing life, and the other (Sunala) representing death. The festivals of Rinala were concerned with fertility and life, and traditionally became intertwined with rituals of courtship, a practice that eventually caused the festivals to be more associated with love -- to the point that the concept of Rinala was originally changed into Dinala ("Love"). From there, the festivals built around the celebration of love turned into hedonistic binges, and what evolved from that was that the goddess of "Love" eventually became Inala ("Pleasure"). Priestesses of Inala would, of course, find this history of the development of their religion to be utterly blasphemous, and this is not anything taught openly in Babel about the origins of their goddesses. |
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