WoD’s Alliance Garrison questline had a moonwell made from a Draenor moon rock, so Draenor’s moon is responsive to Elune’s magic by a Priestess.
Yes agreed, but that source water is still tied to Elune.
I mean, Xera the Prime Naaru admitted to being “forged in the Crucible of Creation” or whatever. Forged implies someone doing the forging. We know Elune’s Tear resurrected Xera, so at least Elune had a hand in that.
Primary? For the Humans, sure, but the Dwarves are largely shaman and some shadow priests, and the Gnomes have no majority religion to speak of outside of Mimiron devotion and a cultural primacy of technological engineering.
Draenei are Naaru-centric with some Shamanism (Broken, Ancestor-maintenance in Auchindoun), they commune with the Light through the Naaru, not by their own volition/will like the Humans did to established the Church of Light.
Kul Tirans worship the Tidemother, which is probably also Elune like I mentioned.
Void Elves do Void stuff which uh… idk lol
Worgen from what we’ve seen are Church of Light, but also Druidry/protoDruidry (Harvest Witch) so there’s that same Wild God tie-in.
You can read through the 1600 post thread “Wanting To Be Hated” for more details there lmao
Aszhara was mimicking the Tidemother for a while, the tide sages say the tidemothers attitude suddenly changed and she became more demanding/malevolent
If Eonar is the Earthmother, then the Tauren myth about Mu’sha and An’she being her eyes might of been misinterpreted.
We’re missing something about the relationship of the moons of Azeroth and the myths surrounding them.
Both the Tauren and the Night Elves got something wrong. The Tauren believe that the Earth Mother tore out her eyes and set them in the sky. The Night Elves believe the White Lady is Elune.
But it occurs to me that the Tauren myth may of been symbolic and the Moons might be a creation of Eonar, constructs of Titan Technology, used to watch over and safeguard Azeroth. Possibly even focusing points to channel Elune’s power itself.
If An’she and Mu’sha are Eonar’s parents, maybe she named them after them?
Or these words may have another meaning that we might be overlooking.
Regardless, we’re going to have to either accept that some of the Tauren myths are wrong, or all of them are. Because the telling of their story just doesn’t line-up with what we now know.
If the Tauren were created by the Earthmother, this would of been before the White Light and the Blue Child were placed in the sky for that part to be correct.
Assuming the Sun is an ACTUAL SUN, it probably existed prior to the Tauren’s creation.
ALTHOUGH…
Every time we do the timewalking through the Temple of the Jade Serpent, I wonder how much of the Story of Zao Sunseeker is actaully true and there really were once 5 suns in the sky over Azeroth and what these 5 Suns really were.
Titan Generators of some sort?
What if The White Lady and the Blue Child weren’t always moons?
I totally forgot about that story! That’s actually an important point to consider. The five suns might have been a punishment of An’she at one point and more magical in nature or there might have just been five stinking suns torching the place for a while.
People also forget that the Warcraft encyclopedia talks about both Elune and Hakkar as being gods at length. It also suggests that both of them, along with the Old Gods, are proper gods unlike the titans.
To be fair it is equally unlikely the tauren were able to hunt Malorne as described. A lot of myths on Azeroth seem to be embellishments in real events.
Five suns ties into Mexica culture where we are living in the fifth world under the fifth sun after four previous suns had fallen. Huitzilopochtli is just the fifth and so far most successful sun, and his survival is predicated on constant blood sacrifice.