"Books - David Eddings - Belgarath the Sorcerer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

Despite its peculiarities, Marag culture was functional, and they had
not yet begun the practice of ritual cannibalism that their neighbors
found so repugnant and that ultimately led to their near extinction.
They were a generous people--the women particularly, and I got along
quite well with them. I don't know that I need to go into too much
detail. This book will almost certainly fall into Polgara's hands
eventually, and she has strong opinions about some things that aren't
really all that important.

After several years, we all returned to the Vale and gathered once more
in our Master's tower to report on what we had seen.

With a certain delicacy, our Master had sent Belsambar north to see
what the Morindim and the Karands were doing. It really wouldn't have
been a good idea to send him back into the lands of the Angaraks. He
had very strong feelings about the Grolim priesthood, and our journeys
were supposed to be fact-finding missions. We weren't out there to
right wrongs or to impose our own notions of justice. In retrospect,
though, we probably could have saved the world a great deal of pain and
suffering if we'd simply turned Belsambar loose on the Grolims. It
would have caused bad blood between Torak and our Master, though, and
that came soon enough anyway.

It was Belzedar who went down to the north side of Korim to observe the
Angaraks. Isn't it funny how things turn out? What he saw in those
mountains troubled him very much. Torak always had an exaggerated
notion of his significance in the overall scheme of things, and he
encouraged his Angaraks to become excessive in their worship. They'd
raised a temple to him in the High Places of Korim where the Grolim
priesthood ecstatically butchered their fellow Angaraks by the hundreds
while Torak looked on approvingly.

The religious practices of the various races of man were really none of
our business, but Belzedar found cause for alarm in the beliefs of the
Angaraks. Torak made no secret of the fact that he considered himself
several cuts above his brothers, and he was evidently encouraging his
people to feel the same way about themselves.

"It's just a matter of time, I'm afraid," Belzedar concluded
somberly.

"Sooner or later, they're going to try to impose their notion of their
own superiority on the rest of mankind, and that won't work. If
someone doesn't persuade Torak to stop filling the heads of the
Angaraks with that obscene sense of superiority, there's very likely
going to be war in the South."

Then Belsambar told us that the Morindim and the Karands had become
demon-worshipers but that they posed no real threat to the rest of
mankind, since the demons devoted themselves almost exclusively to