Hutena and Hutellura (pronounced hooh-TEH-nah and hooh-tehl-LUR-ah) are twin cyclopean time-goddesses. Part of a pantheon of innumerable gods once worshiped by cyclops around the Chaska Sea, today the Shape of the Colors are venerated only by hermits and small villages of cyclops in the central Thadrian highlands.
Beliefs and followers
Hutena and Hutellura are the manipulators of the colors of time. When cyclopean prophecies fail or farseers cannot view a glipse of what is to come, it is through the efforts of the twins as they remove potential future paths and possibilities. In the words of their followers, Hutena and Hutellura do not remove the branches of the Tree of Time, but rather change its colors in ways that prevent the passage of events. Their motives are almost impossible to understand. The twins can fail to show themselves for centuries, allowing clarity to all farseers in their absence, before reappearing to dissolve the colors of all previous prophecies.
Worship of Hutena and Hutellura centers heavily around the use of ritual hallucinogens to more clearly see the branches of the Tree and the goddess' influence upon them.
Hutena and Hutellura are depicted as two cyclops with kaleidoscopic, multicolored eyes. While in the modern day their worship is limited to remote communities of the central Thadrian highlands within the Viridian province of Andera, ancient petroglyphs and cliff-side reliefs that depict the twins can be found as far afield as the mountains of Barat Rkund and in the Hellean Greenwall. Curiously, they are entirely absent in religious artwork found within the large cyclopean cities of Hellea, even while temples of many other long-lost deities remain.