Game of Thrones, HBO's hit TV series based off of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, takes place in an imagined, medieval-esque world. The many different regions of the Game of Thrones world practice different fictional religions.
In Westeros (the continent in which most of the story takes place), the Seven Kingdoms practice the Faith of the Seven. This faith says that there is one god with seven faces: the Father, the Mother, the Maiden, the Crone, the Warrior, the Smith, and the Stranger. The faces represent different facets of life.
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This picture depicts the faces of The Seven
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Also in Westeros, people of the North worship the Old Gods of the Forest. The Old Gods are many unnamed spirits of nature, and followers of the religion go to Godswoods (also known as Weirwoods) to worship the spirits. This religion became obsolete in most of Westeros, once people started following the Faith of the Seven.
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| This is the Godswood at Winterfell |
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Every Godswood has a Heart tree, which appears to have a face and be crying tears of red sap
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The people of the Iron Islands worship the deity of the Drowned God. This god justifies their lifestyle of piracy and raiding. The Islanders find honor in paying the "iron price" for their belongings, which means they believe in killing a person to take his things. The Drowned God is essentially the Islander's version of the Christian God, and their version of Satan is the Storm God, who leads sailors into storms and misfortune.
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In this photo, one of the Iron Born characters is about to be blessed with sea water, in the name of the Drowned God
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Epic fantasy is a place we often seen spirituality that reflects paganism of the Celts, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! Today in class, you mentioned how the pagan worship in forests was like the religion of the Old Gods in Game of Thrones. Also, when you mentioned people praying to a different god for every single thing, I thought of how characters in GoT go to each of the Seven, though all part of the same god, to pray about different needs.
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