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She loves those who nurture domestic animals, even in knowing that those animals will be sacrificed to the good of the family...
He teaches that the cycle of life is greater than all things, greater than any individual, and that a father must sacrifice everything for his family if that is what’s needed...
She brings the soft touch of a warm day and the inferno of purgation, the spring thaw and the killing drought...
His favor is the bounty of the waters, his wrath is the raging storm, the great wave, and the hungry deep...
Her embrace can kill and her wrath is the endless white death, but she is also the guide, protector, and judge of the dead...
And yet she is also the bloody-minded goddess of wild abandon and survival of the fittest, her only mercy a quick ending for the taken prey...
To be quite honest, if it weren't for the specific details of their apotheosis I could
easily see these deities having absolutely no problem with stone knives and runnels down the altar. (Or bog bodies, or stake-burnings, or whatever else might be thematically appropriate.)
It could be that you have the Kataru sandwiched neatly between the Cthonic, inhuman excesses of their Anzillu precedessors and the rather dry, Apollonian moralising of the eclectic philosophies, so... maybe their stance on sacrifice is 'sometimes, with a compelling reason'? I'd be quite interested so get some more details on the Anzillu themselves, if you have time.
Yeesh... I dunno why I'm getting so excited about this. Just don't get me started on
cannibalism (because long pork is
delicious.)