Features of a Fictional/Makeup Religion
Based on the fictional religions encountered in Game of Thrones and Star Wars, sketch out the basic features of your own fictional religion. What sorts of gods would it have, if any? What other spiritual creatures? Does it have a sense of the miraculous? What would its relationship with other religions be? What initiating event started the religion and who founded it? What forms of community/worship/practice define it? Describe in detail what the gods would look like, what sort of ceremonial dress the priesthood or religious elite and laity would wear, and what visual elements appear in rituals. It may help to imagine you are going to shoot a movie that features this religion in its plot. This isn’t necessarily a religion you would want to be part of. Rather, this activity aims to engage your creativity in thinking about what features define a religion for you.
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A Makeup Religion
My makeup religion would consist of a god, a chief prophet, his assistants, and the people with specific roles to play based on their gender. The god will be the sun. Despite scientists describing and explaining, the sun is a powerful thing that has not managed to convince the world where it gets the strength to stand in the middle and light up the world. Therefore, the sun will be the god, and rising from the east will mean he has come up to monitor his people and give them light. When it fails to come up; when covered by the clouds, or when it is in the tropics and can only be seen for a short time, people will have to offer sacrifice in the form of a virgin girl because it means the god is angry. The chief prophet will be the founder of this religion and will habve a sense of the miraculous.
The chief prophet will be responsible for offering sacrifices to god. He will reside in the highest point of the land and can only meet the ass...