Might as well make a con-relevant post to explain my avatar and title.
One of my more recent tidbits is how the Kančel, kin to the Kanǰe of Kortuğ, the autochthonic inhabitants of the *Far Isles (creative name, I know...the languages its name could be from are either currently planned-but-no-details or guts-torn-out-of-its-proto-language-several-tiers-up) came to include Ḥonuxelọ, the Great Turtless, in their pantheon.
Ḥonuxelọ is a goddess of the open ocean crossing, and all deep sea creatures; she appears as a turquoise-silver skinned female with permanently wet hair when she takes human form. The ancestral Kančel were blown off course during a titanic storm, and when the sky calmed they found themselves out of the sight of land. Battered but alive, they did the only thing they could: put their nets out to try and catch food to survive. They caught a sea turtle in their nets; this was a lot of meat, which could feed them for an entire day. They argued over it, but in the end they released it back into the sea, (scaled animals are sacred in the lands they hail from). For this act of kindness, Ḥonuxelọ appeared to them in the form of a great sea turtle, and guided the fishing crew to the Far Isles, saving them from gruesome deaths at sea. Thus did the original pantheon of the Kančel begin to differ from their continental relatives.
One of my more recent tidbits is how the Kančel, kin to the Kanǰe of Kortuğ, the autochthonic inhabitants of the *Far Isles (creative name, I know...the languages its name could be from are either currently planned-but-no-details or guts-torn-out-of-its-proto-language-several-tiers-up) came to include Ḥonuxelọ, the Great Turtless, in their pantheon.
Ḥonuxelọ is a goddess of the open ocean crossing, and all deep sea creatures; she appears as a turquoise-silver skinned female with permanently wet hair when she takes human form. The ancestral Kančel were blown off course during a titanic storm, and when the sky calmed they found themselves out of the sight of land. Battered but alive, they did the only thing they could: put their nets out to try and catch food to survive. They caught a sea turtle in their nets; this was a lot of meat, which could feed them for an entire day. They argued over it, but in the end they released it back into the sea, (scaled animals are sacred in the lands they hail from). For this act of kindness, Ḥonuxelọ appeared to them in the form of a great sea turtle, and guided the fishing crew to the Far Isles, saving them from gruesome deaths at sea. Thus did the original pantheon of the Kančel begin to differ from their continental relatives.