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A possible depiction of what was seen during the Theophany. It is an orb of light with a fringe of shifting hues, hanging in a part of the sky where the sun did not travel. Despite occurring at midday, the rest of the sky was dark as night and the stars shone ...

There is a symmetry between cosmology and epistemology in the Bright Way. A species' noosphere is paired with the epistemological Realm of the Known, the physical universe with the Realm of the Knowable, and the Empyrean with the Realm of the Unknowable. Here...

Certain groups of the Agentivist branch of Neoshamanism have peculiar medicinal practices. Each species of plant or animal is believed to have a shared pool of mana specific to that species. The smaller the total population of that species, the more mana each ...

The stargazer's prayer is a simple prayer taught to pups. It is, as you probably guess, said at night while gazing up into the stars. Below is an English translation. I see the stars in dark of night shining down with holy light. keeping sophonts safe and warm...

Per this one and only source I bothered to check while googling, a dog's bladder can hold 44 mL of urine per pound of body weight. If we extrapolate that to yinrih, who weigh 50 to 80 lb on average, that means yinrih can hold 2.2 to 3.5 L of urine. Yinrih may...

Vulpithecine art is the visual art of yinrih cultures. Yinrih do not rely on subtle facial structure to recognize one another, making them effectively prosopagnosic. In close quarters, musk is used to distinguish individuals. Gross visual features such as fur ...

Revisiting the idea of high-speed nonstop trains, but not fast enough to create microgravity. No evacuated tunnel, but I still like the idea of feeder trains. Instead of the main train stopping to pick up passengers, a feeder train on a circulating side track ...

Heres a redfruit (CT qfBqg /huff, early falling weakening whine, huff, short low weak growl/). As with many other words referring to fruits, this word also doubles as a color term. There are two species of tree that bear nearly identical fruits. One is a deli...

I have started organizing the Lonely Galaxy into articles that I'm posting on FrathWiki. I also have a separate self-hosted private instance of Mediawiki that I'm pulling those articles from to form a Lonely Galaxy wiki. I may or may not make the LG wiki publi...

New lore regarding High Hearthkeeper Lucy. Recall that I wasn't sure how to portray her, as a traditionalist or a modernist. I've decided that generally she leans traditional, but she considered temporarily suspending interstellar mission work. Prior to her ac...

Here's a symbol for Moonlitter, a large circle with six smaller circles orbiting around it, symbolizing the planet Moonlitter itself and its many many moons and outlying dwarf planets. The planet itself isn't very economically important other than being the b...

The practice of defleshing the body and putting the bones on display is common across yinrih cultures. Besides lighthouses, other institutions of societal importance such as schools, libraries, and government buildings are also common places where bones are di...

The three major daily liturgies at sunrise, noon, and sunset may have been inherited from Shamanism. Between these major liturgies are shorter (likely private) prayers conducted at specific times.The names of these rituals have lent themselves to the names of ...

I've mentioned elsewhere that a wrench is a symbol of the clerical office. Here's what such a wrench looks like. The rings on the handle are to allow it to be held in the tail. It's as much a practical tool as a badge of office. The wrench is quite heavy. Rum...

A hame is a badge of honor granted to a healer. It is a cloak made from the pelt of a celebrated healer, usually the foundress of a college or other well-regarded alumna. To have one's pelt made into a hame is the highest posthumous honor a healer can receive,...

Another tentative idea: After the Theophany, a movement grows within the interstitial teens. The miraculous light appeared low in the southern sky, at a much lower elevation than the equatorial sun was known to travel. The majority of yinrih still lived along ...

I've been thinking that the bright way would take an interest in elephants given elephants' apparent reverence for their dead. They'd probably want to set up an elephant sanctuary similar to the tree dweller sanctuary in Newman's Dale.

It's "the lonely galaxy" written using the newer "dajba" system. I'm pretty pleased considering I did it with a mouse.