The Cult of St. Yarth

St. Yarth is a personification of Earth, the homeworld's guardian spirit or indwelling vitality. She is a mother-figure, a source of ancient knowledge, and the origin and destination of souls (for Terran species, anyway).

Besides praying to her, her devotees seek contact through:

• charms and relics of metal, stone, dust allegedly from Earth
• a collection of traditional benedictory hymns & poems, in Earthron & Terranic, and their translations into Universum
• traditional offerings of:
  • cash (of course)
  • fruit
  • bread
  • scented sand
  • relevant hymns, sung, played, written, or recorded
• purchase of icon cards showing:
  • St. Yarth (depicted as a motherly woman in blue and white robes, with a globe or maps, attendant animals, flowers, fruit, figures of significant people)
  • Earth maps
  • orbital photos
  • Earth symbols (variations on the quartered circle)

The cult of St. Yarth is integrated with:

• Ideolatry
• Pantomorpheanism
• some eccentric Timonianism (as an unusual non-mortal spirit-saint)
• some eccentric Christianity (as an angel-saint comparable to Michael or Gabriel)
• Awundi polytheism
• many other popular polytheisms

St. Yarth is sometimes identified with Nature (in Ideolatry) or analogous figures such as Nadra. She is also called (or readily identified with figures called) Artha, Erth, Orth, Orda, Erudh, Airt, Ert, Yart, etc.