Maya-World Relations

Question: How do the K'uh get along with your 'homebrew' (I use the word sparingly because I don't believe it really is, given the amount of research put into it) pantheons?

The first of several Homebrew Pantheon Posts! Whoever you are, thank you for being so kind about the work we put into these - it's nice to know you guys like 'em. :)

Okay, round one: the K'uh and making nice with everybody else. Of the other downloadable pantheons, they probably have the most trouble interacting with the Elohim; these are two pantheons who really just don't get each other and probably never will. The K'uh think the Elohim are crazy and reactionary, psychotic and overly vengeful, too complacent in their city-states when things like cities never stand for long, and they would have no particular interest in fighting over who has the most layers of divine kingship. On the flip side, the utter changeability of the K'uh would drive the Elohim out of their minds trying to figure out what they were doing, and they would not only not understand the idea of the many-gods-in-one, they would be likely to think of the whole Harmony-obsessed pantheon as misty-eyed hippies with no ability to get anything done. There'd no doubt they could probably both impress one another in battle... but it's hard to bond over Courage alone. Mostly you just both get covered in entrails and then go home.

The Anunna are similarly foreign to the K'uh, though less volatile and therefore less worrisome. The Anunna are very old and very sure of their superiority, so they'd be likely to treat the K'uh as strange upstart children who have developed some very weird customs indeed, and conversely the K'uh probably wouldn't think the Anunna had a lot to offer that was relevant or useful to the modern world (especially since they're so rigidly rules-focused and unchanging). They wouldn't dislike each other, but there's not a lot of respect on either side.

But the Apu, there are some people the K'uh can relate to. Although their empires never met in antiquity (I'm serious, don't make me start yelling about the Inca and the Maya being nowhere near each other again), they share many common goals and ideals, including territorial expansion, human sacrifice, strong emphasis on noble lineage and the idea of the gods as awesome cosmic forces of nature, not just really powerful people who run around in heaven. Their most major difference is in the K'uh emphasis on the fluid nature of the divine, contrasted against the Apu as the unchanging forces of the elements themselves, but they would probably both allow that there's room for both interpretations.

The Alihah... well, they understand things that don't stay the same, and while the K'uh turning into various versions of themselves isn't quite the same as the Alihah embarking on their eternal travels, in the end there's a common philosophical idea of a journey that changes oneself that they could probably get together on. The K'uh, like many other pantheons, are probably a little disdainful of the Alihah, whose people never had any true military or imperial might and who were worshiped in a very disorganized and piecemeal manner by their standards, but the Alihah are chill enough that they probably don't care. In fact, the two pantheons find each other intriguing: each sees the other as a group of deities with an enticingly different way of changing and moving, and would probably be very interested in experiencing a little of that.

And, finally, the Bogovi, who are probably inclined to be best friends with the K'uh. Both pantheons are prone to changing their selves without losing the core of who they are - the K'uh through their different aspects, the Bogovi through their many faces and names - and they share a love of the proper natural balance and a drive to preserve and support it. The K'uh are not a very hands-on pantheon when it comes to their mortal worshipers, which never hurts when trying to make friends with the Bogovi, and the two probably have a great time trading war stories, planning escapades against the Titans and playing exotic sports.