Writing - Wendigo Religion

>secluded alpine convent full of wendigo nuns
Simultaneously comfy and horrifying.

Who do they pray to, Hircine? Artemis? Arby’s?
>”Awawawa, great Arby’s! He has the meats!”

>Papa Wendigo doesn't have the heart to tell his girls Arby's is a mediocre fast food chain
>He figures he should say something when he even catches his wife secretly saying a little prayer into a discarded wrapper that blew away into the mountains

Some sort of eldritch horror or a winter nature god of some sort, I don't know the folklore

Here's an idea
>Wendigos worship Papa Winter
>Because the husband/father is so central to Wendigo families, he is like the father to all Wendigos
>He, with his goddess Mama Winter, takes the form of the largest, snow covered tree in the forest, because wendigos, when their coats are closed resemble snow laden trees
>Little Wendis are taught to hide like papa winter if they get too cold or are scared/lost and to sing like mama winter so their parents can find them
Think of it like the tree from Totoro

That sort of family-centric religion works really well for Wendigoes anon, good stuff. It also goes really well with my headcanon that baby Wendigos get their coats at birth from a piece of their mother's coat and then it grows with them so they keep it for their whole life

>If the girls get scared, they know that all parents have the blessing of mama and papa winter to protect their children
>"That's why daddy sneezes so loudly, to scare off anyone who would bother us, right?"
>At the solstices and equinoxes, the family gathers around the largest tree in their forest and pray to mama and papa winter
>"Thank you for protecting our family and caring for us. Bless us that we have another happy season."
>If a pine cone falls during one of these visits, it means that they will be gifted with something this season like a good hunt, a Wendi finding a husband, or even the birth of a new daughter

The image of the littlest Wendigo waddling forward and picking up the pinecone that fell while the rest of the family is silent, then all smiles when she turns and holds it up triumphantly, is giving me diabetes.

>Because Wendigos often live in frigid climates where running water isn't always available, they often take snow baths, similar to the way Chinchillas take dust baths
>Due to their chaotic nature, this can create blizzards and white outs that seem to last for days
>When a man wanders into a woods and a blizzard engulfed him, this is the result of him catching the eye of a single Wendigo
>The blizzard is caused by her frantically trying to look nice to meet her new husband