I'm flexible about changing around icon art or naming if there are ideas that come up that seem popular. These are the only two religions for this particular mod though; I won't add more.

As always, I picked the icons I did because they looked reasonably good on the background color of their founder(s). I picked the names I did because they flow with the 1-word naming convention. They also aren't easily confused with any civ icons. Keep these in mind.

I scoured dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference photos, and lots of old articles to come up with these name and icons. If you have a suggestion, post it here. If you have something to say about somebody's suggestion, then give your kind opinion.



A bit on the religions as I added them:

Amadhlozi: (Zulu), means "the ancestral spirits", in IsiZulu. Similiar naming style that I had used previously for Polynesia's "Kiniakua" in my previous extension mod. There are actually a couple of similiar words that carry this same meaning, but I made sure to pick a different one than others' mods previously had. The icon is the distictive Zulu cowhide shield, which while not necessarily a religious object, just shouts Zulu traditionalism.

Nemesumagu: (Shoshone), means "the Shoshone tradition" in Shoshoni-Bannock. "Neme" means "people" and is how the Shoshone refered to themselves; they used other words for outsiders. "Sumagu" means "tradition" or "the way things were done" among Bannock peoples particularly. I liked this term even more because it fits nicely with Pocatello's Northern Shoshone and Bannock roots. The icon is a Plains or Great Basin style feathered war bonnet. It is made as a mirror to the red shaman's mohawk I had created for my earlier mod for the Iroquois' religion. This way the North American native religions appear as a set.