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One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it. (lemmy.today)
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[โ€“] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Tbf dwarven religions are like "my ancestors carved these rules with their hands to guide us forward" and elven religions are like "my ancestors got intimate with a fae, starting our race. Also their firstborn is still alive."

Meanwhile human religions are like "here is a horse that's made out of all living beings, with a woman's face too. Mortals who mount it can go to heaven for 5 seconds."

Al-Buraq painting from wikipedia. It shows an elephant's torso, feet made out of bird heads, and tail an eastern dragon. There is also rabbits and lions and so on scattered around. The painting has a sense of movement like the animals are constanly squirming and biting each other etc in a loop

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[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

let's not forget that a lot of human religion is also just "thank u sun for making us not freeze to death, very cool. You too, water: big fan of watering my crops."

Which is probably my favourite HFY concept: humans being ludicrously diverse while everyone else has like maybe 5 different cultures.
Even better there's one non-human species that's also super diverse and we both go