Jade Fern Grove Sitting flat on your bum doesn't buy any bread.

Would you mind to extend this thread a little longer? Esma will be going for Spiritualist trade and I could use this thread towards her receiving apprenticeship. She is very interested in religion and has many questions.

John's answer floored Esma. She stared at him with surprise in her eyes, because up until now she had had an idea that other people might have their Atka and Sos. The same gods, but by different name. But having jsut one? "Where did your god put the other one?" she asked, not ready to accept monotheism. It felt against everything she had been taught. 

"All your life?" she tilted her head to the side, confused. To her dealings with Atka and Sos were fragmentary. She helped mom prepare the offerings and tagged along with the rituals, but the rest of the time she made herself invisible to them, by living inside her thoughts more than in this world. To her both bear-gods were like business partners. She did her side of the deal and they did theirs. All fair. 

"Why?" she pressed further. "What do you have to do for... is it a boy or a girl?" she asked next. "What does it look like? Is it a bear too?"