Dr paradox
2021-09-17, 03:45 PM
I've been trying to find some satisfactory resources for this, but I'm pretty much only coming up with Christian and Catholic sources.
In America, at least, the idea of "priests" is so closely bound to Abrahamic faiths that it's difficult to conceptualize religious vestments for fantastical polytheistic religions without falling back on Christian clichés of cassock, stoll, and mitre cap. This is to say nothing of titles like "brother" and "father" being pretty much de facto.
Does anyone have any ideas or knowledge about how, say, Hellenistic priests would be garbed? What about polytheistic Romans or Danes? Slavic Pagans? How have you differentiated priests in your setting from Christian cliche?
In America, at least, the idea of "priests" is so closely bound to Abrahamic faiths that it's difficult to conceptualize religious vestments for fantastical polytheistic religions without falling back on Christian clichés of cassock, stoll, and mitre cap. This is to say nothing of titles like "brother" and "father" being pretty much de facto.
Does anyone have any ideas or knowledge about how, say, Hellenistic priests would be garbed? What about polytheistic Romans or Danes? Slavic Pagans? How have you differentiated priests in your setting from Christian cliche?