Religious Gestures

[Sosthenes]

By the way, do we have some information about common ritual gestures, i.e. the equivalents of the sign of the cross, the mano cornuto (\m/), the Hindu(?) touching of the feet, genuflection etc.? As that's easily done on the table, it would be a nice addition to role-playing.

Looking at the current Morrow symbol, I could imagine one of the following:

1. Hand from groin/stomach to eihter middle of the sternum or the neck, then descending slightly to start a clockwise circle.
2. Hand coming up along middle of the body, turning in a curve towards the heart, straight motion to other nipple, then with a slight curve back to the middle and upwards, stopping either at the forehead or above the head.

For Thamar, a broken circle, counter-clockwise, starting at north west, to north east seems good enogh. That's also easy to hide, if you just do it with your fingers. (With enough imagination, one could also see a cornuto as a broken circle. But then you might as well throw down your "west coast" sign to represent the three downward spikes. Erm, yo.)

Thinking of it, a given the upper part of Morrow's radiance, a clockwise circle starting from S might be a quick version, too. Maybe as a quckie sign vs. evil…

For Menoth I'm not quite sure. Yes, you could make the sign of the cross, but that's too obvious and won't work for our Irish and Polish gamers at all. As the symbol represents a stick figure, mabe just spreading your arms. Or raising both your hadns from the bottom, spreading at your chest, then coming together and raising them high. Or a shaka sign with your index finger extended…

No need for Toruk, as a) he doesn't care and b) quite a few members might miss some significant digits and aren't as limber anyway.

[Psychomancer]

Lessee...the only one I know for sure is that Morrowans is placing the heels of the hands together, palms upward. This is the proper posture for prayer in Morrowan churches. I'm unclear as to whether Morrowans kneel when they pray.

[StJason]

Woulden't Tharmarite gestures be the Trident? I could see flashing a "W" with your fingers to other followers, or priests applying blessings this way.

[profparm]

I could see flashing a "W" with your fingers to other followers.

This is dangerous to do in certain kayazay-dominated portions of Khador, though, especially in Eastern Khador, as they are likely to have a violent response to your west-side support.

[Babbington]

For Menoth, you might consider putting your hand up to your face, palm facing inward with the fingers splayed out in imitation of Menoth's mask. Maybe combine that with a slight bow from the lower ranking Menite towards the higher ranking Menite to acknowledge the hierarchy of the faith.

[captainspud]

My group has decided that true pious Morrowans greet each other with a manual Radiance of Morrow:



Palms up, interlock fingers, and wiggle them around like dancing sunbeams.

This gesture is, incidentally, very hard to draw in Paint with a mouse. :P

[cryptomancer]

Menites could have a two-handed gesture as follows: hands together at chest in front of breast bone, fingers steepled pointing skyward, thumbs tip-to-tip pointing downward. Leave some space between your palms and the natural diamond shape between your hands looks an awful lot like the top of the Menofix.

-crypto

[Sosthenes]

Palms up, interlock fingers, and wiggle them around like dancing sunbeams.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Morrow

Menites could have a two-handed gesture as follows: hands together at chest in front of breast bone, fingers steepled pointing skyward, thumbs tip-to-tip pointing downward

An inverse Merkel?

[HerrDeux]

An inverse Merkel?

Isn't that also a secret sign of the Nonokrion Fellowship? I thought there was something peculiar about her...