Wednesday, November 01, 2006

DAY 1 - PINACTLE

30 Days, 30 Gods -- A study of little-known religions


DAY 1
PINACTLE


Bordan
islanders worship Pinactle, a god who appears in the shape of a man with the feet and bristly hair of a pig. His body is covered in tattoos describing nautical maps. He lives in a tree that moves through the ocean without an island beneath it.

Pinactle is a master navigator. Once, his enemy, Pinde, tore out his eyes and cast him from his treetop home. Pinactle, blind, built a raft from driftwood bound together with his hair, and found his way to his home with sound and scent. He silently climbed his tree and found Pinde sleeping. He killed and ate Pinde, and regained his vision by replacing his missing eyeballs with those of his enemy.

A common ritual among his worshipers is to eat a meal blindfolded, removing the blindfold only after the last course of pig eye stew.

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