The Ash, the Elder, and the Hen Elm

This started off as the September book-blog based on Bihani Sarkar's Heroic Shaktism , then expanded to a two-month book-blog riffing on Banerjee and Wouters'  Subaltern Studies 2.0. Then it became neither, because I didn't enjoy either book that much even if the ideas were in theory interesting. (The whole post will probably be enhanced if you read Bret Devereaux' Practical Polytheism series first) When was the last time your PCs sacrificed to a god? If you're anything like me, the answer is 'never'. In my experience of playing, watching, running and reading a fair number of games, the interactions with divinity I tend to see are: The PC is a 'prophet' class, including D&Dalike Clerics/Priests/whatever, with direct and reliable access to divinity - either for chats or just for powers The PC otherwise has a conversation with a sympathetic or antagonistic god which wants them to do something or wants to reward them for having done something (Exal...