For @olivarryweek Day Two: Mythology/FolkloreÂ
Pairing: Olivarry
Rating: Gen
Summary:Â The Lovers were Arrow, the hunter, and also the god of hearth and home. And Thunder, the bringer of storms and rain, and the god of the harvest. That they were Lovers was a notion more accepted in the Midlands than in the Eastern or Western cities. Often times the Lovers were invoked at Midlander marriage ceremonies rather than the goddess of love, because the tales of profound passion and devotion between the two gods were so cherished by the people.
Notes: Outsider POV, Dystopian Future (but not angsty, I donât think). Thanks to @scarletarcherblog for the read-through! <3
In the beginning there was ash and flood to the south, and darkness and ice to the north, and a void in between. From this void came the gods and goddesses, and from them came the Earth and its vegetation, as well as all known creatures, including humans. This came about because the Twins, Kara and Kal-El, the First of the gods, formed the sun and placed it in the sky so that it might melt the ice. The sun dried up some of the flood, and from it rose mountains and canyons, and from the wet ash grew grass, wheat, corn, and trees. And then Diana, also among the First, dipped her hand into stardust and formed the moon, which she hung in the night sky to balance the sun. Diana thus gave Earth tides so that humans may travel the oceans, and a light at night to guide them.
The Firsts breathed life into the earth, and so they were considered the most prominent and powerful by many nations. They had the grandest temples, the highest number of cultists, and were of greater influence to politicians in the governments. Talnâs home were the Midlands, a conglomeration of rural towns and nomadic tribes, but she remembers visiting the sprawling cities of the East with her father before the Invaders came and destroyed them. During those few visits in her youth she remembers seeing throngs of people crowding the temples of the Twins and Diana, loaded with platters of food and glittering jewelry and small heaps of gold and silver.
As a Midlander, Taln grew up worshipping the Lovers. The Lovers were Arrow, the hunter, and also the god of hearth and home. And Thunder, the bringer of storms and rain, and the god of the harvest. That they were Lovers was a notion more accepted in the Midlands than in the Eastern or Western cities. Often times the Lovers were invoked at Midlander marriage ceremonies rather than the goddess of love, because the tales of profound passion and devotion between the two gods were so cherished by the people.
These past several years since her conscription, however, Taln had become more accustomed to worshipping Kendra the Hawk, the goddess of war. She, like other soldiers, kept a candle and an icon of the hawk goddess in her quarters, beside her bed, to which she might offer a broken blade won from her enemy, or small pieces of jewelry or, more often, pretty but worthless gems she found or bought in her travels. If they were out in the open, Taln sometimes burned whatever small sticks of incense she managed to find and hang on to while she prayed to the goddess for swiftness in battle and the ability to protect her brothers and sisters in arms.
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