thought that the Great God Mokaragash, when incarnated in an idol in the precincts of Temple Isherzan, had yet to evolve to His final form; and it might be thought that the Nu, the god worshipped by the Nu-chala, was simply a potential future form to which, in the fullness of time, the Great God Mokaragash would Evolve.
Therefore it could be argued that those who abandoned the worship of the Great God Mokaragash to make themselves members of the Nu-chala-nuth were simply giving slightly premature homage to a future form of the Great God Mokaragash. This at least was what Sesno Felvus told those priests who chose to stay with him in Temple Isherzan; and, if any chose to disbelieve this, not one of them was bold enough to say as much.
As for Asodo Hatch himself, when asked by the Lady Iro Murasaki what he truly believed, Hatch delivered himself of this simplest of doctrines:
'When a mantis flies, it's more of a leaf than a bird.'
