Editing The Gate (section)

====Gods and Faith====
'''The Three Avatars'''
*Firebringer: the avatar of sun and sky. A dangerous and loving, virile deity.
*Waterdrinker: the avatar of underworld and river. A loving and deadly, fertile deity.
*Earthbeater: the avatar of the crops and earth. A nurturing, destroying deity.

'''The Others'''
*The Eater of Virility, ‘Amimami’: the messenger of age and impotence, the castrated god.
*The Devil’s Grandfather, The Dark Beggar: the thief of light and bringer of confusion, the giver of forbidden knowledge, the permissive one.
*Miss Netmaker: a trickster spirit, lady luck.
*Doctor Love: the avatar of temptation, the city god of the Eastern and Western Cities, the denier of the old truths of the town.
*Saint Cleareyes: the prophet who received enlightenment in the Cave of the Wanton Mother and brought buckwheat and plum to the People of the Fields.
*Winterwhite, ‘Lady Deadfingers’: the avatar of ice and death and visions, a dangerous god and bringer of hunger.
*Northwind: a hungry wind, who chases away the Eaters rots, but brings pains, aches, and windlung in its wake.
*Bridgespirit: the avatar of perseverance, long life, and stability. The spirit of the Bridge is a good god to ask for blessings, as she asks little in return.
*Fourface, ‘Worldwatcher’: the god of the turning seasons, of the directions of the sky, of the cycles of the birthing and dying couples. A remote, cruel, yet tender god.
**Temple of Fourface and the Three Avatars: an old and stolid double henge with plaster walls enclosing the Twelve-faced Stela of Saint Cleareyes. Heart of the Bridges faith.
*Green Sun: the child of the Firebringer and the Earthbeater, the Green Sun is an ambiguous deity, the creator and destroyer of humanity.