Reminders of Things Past
3 Renasci 279
I was looking through some of my writings and found a few things about Calypso. I'd been right in the middle of creating the first ever Calypsian wedding ceremony when It happened. I feel so bad for Khyrl and Aisling. They'd already tithed everything and more. I saw Khyrl not long ago and he looked horrid. I doubt I'll see him again.
Makala and I once wrote a paper about the Calypsian view of marriage. It's odd, because we wrote it after the whole mess of our non-relationship happened and yet I always got the feeling that maybe we were writing about us after all. Here's what we wrote. It's still in the Cottage of Faith and Fidelity in Thrace.
A quick glance at the words chosen by the various religions of the land to describe marriage reveals that the Calypsian view is quite different from the others. Words such as loyalty and commitment are replaced with mysterious, discovery, fortuitous and our final word: eternal. Why did our church choose such terms to typify matrimony? We must examine the Calypsian outlook on life itself to understand its outlook on each separate aspect.
Followers of Calypso view the universe as a great mystery, made of smaller puzzles which must be explored and manipulated, that we might joyously discover new knowledge. Research and the trial-and-error method are our primary tools for unlocking each new door we discover, and we find happiness with each effort, even when (as is normally the case) a freshly opened door only reveals another to be unlocked.
There is no one goal that unites those in our faith, for the realm is filled with so many appealing aspects that each of us may prioritize differently. Instead, we are bound together by our emulation of the goddess herself who shows us, by example, the importance of research and reliance upon luck. Even new knowledge imparted from one to another is often rechecked, that we might know personally what we now know intellectually.
Sometimes it seems as though we've reached an impasse in one quest or another. Many people might conclude that there is nothing left to discover in that specific area, but the Calypsian would determine he must try something else, that there must be another way to break through the door to the other side. If he simply tries hard and often enough, eventually he might get lucky and find a way in!
If the Calypsian sees marriage as a smaller mystery, then it stands to reason that he will find great delight in exploring its ever-changing dynamics. Should it seem the path has become too rough, he will keep plodding onward, certain that he will be fortuitous enough to find something wonderful just around the bend!
For a Calypsian holds dear the uncertainty of the future and revels in the joyous discoveries that lay within it. In the same fashion when a Calypsian offers their vows of marriage he does not proclaim to know the future; rather whatever his words articulate, they are in essence saying "Regardless of the uncertain future and the unknown trials we will face, I am standing before all present and before the Aether declaring that I will take a chance on you, always and eternally."
I was looking through some of my writings and found a few things about Calypso. I'd been right in the middle of creating the first ever Calypsian wedding ceremony when It happened. I feel so bad for Khyrl and Aisling. They'd already tithed everything and more. I saw Khyrl not long ago and he looked horrid. I doubt I'll see him again.
Makala and I once wrote a paper about the Calypsian view of marriage. It's odd, because we wrote it after the whole mess of our non-relationship happened and yet I always got the feeling that maybe we were writing about us after all. Here's what we wrote. It's still in the Cottage of Faith and Fidelity in Thrace.
A quick glance at the words chosen by the various religions of the land to describe marriage reveals that the Calypsian view is quite different from the others. Words such as loyalty and commitment are replaced with mysterious, discovery, fortuitous and our final word: eternal. Why did our church choose such terms to typify matrimony? We must examine the Calypsian outlook on life itself to understand its outlook on each separate aspect.
Followers of Calypso view the universe as a great mystery, made of smaller puzzles which must be explored and manipulated, that we might joyously discover new knowledge. Research and the trial-and-error method are our primary tools for unlocking each new door we discover, and we find happiness with each effort, even when (as is normally the case) a freshly opened door only reveals another to be unlocked.
There is no one goal that unites those in our faith, for the realm is filled with so many appealing aspects that each of us may prioritize differently. Instead, we are bound together by our emulation of the goddess herself who shows us, by example, the importance of research and reliance upon luck. Even new knowledge imparted from one to another is often rechecked, that we might know personally what we now know intellectually.
Sometimes it seems as though we've reached an impasse in one quest or another. Many people might conclude that there is nothing left to discover in that specific area, but the Calypsian would determine he must try something else, that there must be another way to break through the door to the other side. If he simply tries hard and often enough, eventually he might get lucky and find a way in!
If the Calypsian sees marriage as a smaller mystery, then it stands to reason that he will find great delight in exploring its ever-changing dynamics. Should it seem the path has become too rough, he will keep plodding onward, certain that he will be fortuitous enough to find something wonderful just around the bend!
For a Calypsian holds dear the uncertainty of the future and revels in the joyous discoveries that lay within it. In the same fashion when a Calypsian offers their vows of marriage he does not proclaim to know the future; rather whatever his words articulate, they are in essence saying "Regardless of the uncertain future and the unknown trials we will face, I am standing before all present and before the Aether declaring that I will take a chance on you, always and eternally."