Stavanger Bay Morgenstern Balding

There is a "History Extra podcast" on Spotify and they recently had a very interesting stream about paganic beliefs. Hence the references to differences in approach to god and religion.

"Well, mom said," and again I repeat that this does not necessarily mean Maia had ever said anything like this. Dwin was bad with remembering information sources, therefore it was easier to ascribe it to either her mom or dad. "That gods are something people believe in to explain stuff they cannot. Or... or to bring order in a very, very chaotic world," she began a very lengthy explanation, but without a preface, she could not give a proper answer to Heph's question. 

"So... and there are generally two types of gods. Ones, which are like super-controlling and telling you constantly, what to do and what not," reference to the God in the Old Testament. "And they can get very angry at you also, if you do not obey," there had been some stories that had struck Dwin as quite nasty. Say - asking a father to sacrifice his son to show that he believed in his god. Or that the same god had destroyed a whole lot of packlands, because they had chosen to live the way they wanted. 

"And then there are more practical people and gods. That means that people do not bother their gods unless they need something from them, because the gods have a lot more important stuff to deal with than to meddle in the affairs of mortals," the business-like attitude of gods felt more to Dwin's liking. IF Gods existed. "And then... then there are some sort of belief that that the god is not something that lives above and rules everything, but that it is part of every thing. I have not yet quite understood this concept, but becoming a water seems like the closest thing to it," she finished.