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 That said, most schools of Plirism have picked up a lot of the same shared conceptual universe as traditional "Gunnagalic" religions - a bit like how the religions which originated in India share a lot of concepts in common even if they interpret them differently. Some of these have "creation stories" about particular aspects of the world. But these are still more easily reinterpreted to fit with scientific discoveries than, say, the idea of one universal creaiton.
+Plirism has some interpretation of particular natural phenomena as aspects of deities (lightning being created by a particular deity, for instance), but this is of a form which can be easily reinterpreted as "metaphorical" or "symbolic". Plirism has always had a clear message that no-one is all-powerful or all-knowing, not even deities, so they can work around stories of deities.
+In outdoor appearance, Plirists don't have a distinctive idea of religious buildings as being constructed differently from other large buildings. What they do is decorate them differently. One of the most notable ways is how they construct windows: they build the windows to be in the shape of a "half-moon" (with the straight line being vertical); no other buildings have those windows as a general style. (Individual shrine rooms in buildings might, but not the whole building). Another is chimes, which are hung around most religious buildings (and some non-religious buildings), and built so that the sounds they make are irregular.
+In terms of personal symbolism, they also often wear necklaces in a half-moon shape (straight line being horizontal, in this case), a symbolic representation of the Endless Spiral, or that of various deities, such as the Rainbow Serpent, the Fire Brothers, or the Green Lady.