Some Basic Facts about Ochlochism

Type:
Polytheist with a small pantheon

Names of the Major Deities:
The main god is the Ochloch, a flying squid-like thing of unknown origin. His father, Ham, who is both segmented and unsegmented at once, is both the founder of the molluscan race and the creator of the universe. Lesser deities include Beifalvor, Lord of clams, and Gazterpon, Lord of snails.

Founder(s) of the religion, if any
Ochlochism is said to have been spoken to the prophet Isma'el through a shell that he put to his ear on the beaches of frozen Siberia.

Type of following
Ochlochism was once the primary faith in Roman France, the inhabitants of which ate the body of Gazterpon during ritual escargot eatings, but it has since faded into obscurity, having a secretive and dangerous following in many sea-port towns and isolated fishing hamlets in lonely parts of the world.

Acceptance of religion
It was once persecuted by the Catholic church, but now the Ochloch's temples go undisturbed by the nosy and viscous, as there are whispered rumors of human sacrifice and discrimination lawsuits.

Church
Each church is run by the local "Ma'achloyoch," a priest raised from birth to listen into sea shells effectively. It is rumored that each priest communicates through pigeons with his fellows and that they all congregate once a yule-tide in a circle of monolithic stones by the sea.

Sects/Variation
Unknown

(OP: Ben, May 2 2008)