Protoss Religion

[phazonjunkie]

"Any sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable from a god:"
-corollary to Arthur C. Clark's 3rd law.

[Endologitrol]

What name would you give the race that created you?
That's why I think there is still reverence for the Xel'Naga.

[pure.Wasted]

"Any sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable from a god:"
-corollary to Arthur C. Clark's 3rd law.

Touche, sir.

[InpuBot]

thats interesting, maybe the protoss were created for the xel'nega's own selfish causes, like a perfect body they can use or something...

crazy talk

The protoss were created by the Xel'Naga, which did mysterious visits, to the protoss, they seemed like gods

[Sarov]

"Anht zagatir nas."
-The Gods watch over you.
Farewell Saying in Khalani, the language of the Protoss

I think the Protoss used to, and might still, refer to the Xel'Naga as Gods. How else would you refer to a powerful, high intelligent race that was responsible for the evolution of your people? Besides, that's what the primitive Protoss referred to them as.

An excerpt from The Dark Templar Saga: Firstborn that provides proof: Up it went, the home that flew, bearing the Ihan'rii, the Great Teachers, the Makers, the Guardians, away, away, forever away.

[InpuBot]

i mean if you see advanced being coming down from the sky when you are still primitive, you will believe they are gods

[Sarov]

Yes, that is true. However I was referring to the fact that because the Protoss value their history (I would guess so because they took lessons from their history and created the Dae'uhl and strive to never have another Aeon of Strife), they might still call the Ihan'rii gods. Maybe even more so because their technology is reverse engineered from the Xel'Nagan technology.

[Visions of Khas]

That's a good point, Sarov. The Protoss believe that any action, no matter how minute, sends ripples across space and time. Something as monumental as the creation of entire species and giving rise to unsurpassed technologies would definitely deify the Xel'Naga in protoss history and culture. Though I think only extremists would consider the Xel'Naga actual deities, I'm sure many would still cling to slight superstitions. Zeratul, however, though reverential towards the 'Naga, wouldn't.

[TheVidaar]

I'm guessing they see the Xel'Naga or Creators as Gods.. But as their knowledge on their ancestors vained in time,they started to see their own brethren as Gods.. For example Adun. It was common for any Protoss from Aiur to greet his brother with "En Taro Adun" sentence and "En Taro Tassadar" when executor Tassadar died in order to slay the Overmind.

[ArcherofAiur]

My bet is hasidic judaism.