#whereas the Kin. straight up does not. that's a major difference especially considering how central the Kin's beliefs are in patho lol

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going through pdfs and an autism moment the levels of which you've never seen and i'm reminded of the multiple buryat creation myths in which the lake (baikal) plays such an important role (because. they live here) and in which the buryats are descendants of swans... and thinking about how patho (inspired by this culture among others) completely lacks both A Lake and anything related to swans, with birds appearing as the muu shubuun "wicked birds" (another mongolic + turkic (mu shuvuu) folklore figure that is different in patho than it is irl)(i would say. yeah obviously), plague-bearers, etc. you got the Gorkhon which is river and not lake, which could be an equivalence, but rivers & lakes typically have different places in animist beliefs, often have different gender identifications as well, and the Kin does not have the same relationship to the river as the people of the region have with Baikal...

also the concept of sky-dwellers/sky-divers/generally Brother There's Something Up There with the head of the pantheon/all-progenitor being sky-bound ("the heavens" comes up often) is almost completely absent from the Kin's religious background, and most of the -dwelling is one in/within the Earth, with Bos Turokh literally being the land and Boddho being explicitely an earth-mother-goddess, and rather it being Suok associated with air.

that's fascinating how this like very prominent part of mongolic culture, whether attributed to Tengri or to Lama for the buddhist parts of it or Esege/Esege Malan is absent from the Kin's culture that's inspired by those and almost flipped on its head completely.

#also the fact that tons of animals that are as sacred to the Buryat as the bull (a totem) also do not appear. #(no bitches? face) NO [sacred fish in the baikal lake)? patho got only dry dead fishes. this is so sad. #neigh (blabbers) #like the more you know about this bunch of little things the more you notice all the ways in which it differs it feels like a puzzle #salty about the no horses though. come on... don't you want to put horses in your mongolic-cultures-inspired game..... #in general mongolic (incl. buryat) mythology/religion has like a bunchhhhh of gods and spirits all associated with different elements #whereas the Kin. straight up does not. that's a major difference especially considering how central the Kin's beliefs are in patho lol