Honestly? I have no idea why we're so given to shitty mystery cults. There just seems to be something in the troll psychological makeup where an annoyingly common failure mode is just kind of gesturing at something and going "is this an object of veneration?" [Ok, possibly she'd enjoying herself now, just a bit. The fact that she's grinning as she continues, however, does not in the least mean she's being facetious.] I mean, just that I'm aware of, we've got Death cults, cults of the Handmaid of Death, at least a couple of sects fixated on a mutant mystic who claimed to remember a peaceful parallel world, sun-worshipers, a couple of different weird shamanistic things, veneration of an abstracted ideal of the Mother Grub...
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