I would say, We're of the Old Religion, but that's not what the ancestors would have said.

The ancestors didn't even have a word for religion.

No; if they'd deigned to tell you at all, they would have said: We're of the Old Worship.

And that's much Truer.

Some people are what they believe. We're not.

We are what we do, and there's something else that we know.

You are what you worship.

Some of our people these days get squeamish around the word worship; to them, it's come to imply self-abasement and power-over.

But that's not worship at all. Or maybe it's one kind of worship, but it's certainly not ours.

The ancestors may not have had a word for religion, but worship was one of their words since long before the New Ways took it for themselves. Our worship is "worth-ship": what you give worth to, what you value.

Worship isn't just something you give to the gods—judges used to be called “Your Worship”—but if you don't find worth in the gods, you're probably not one of ours anyway.

For we're of the Old Worship, "sired of Time."

And we know that you are what you worship.