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Catelyn had been anointed with the seven oils and named in the rainbow of light that filled the sept of Riverrun. She was of the Faith, like her father and grandfather and his father before him. Her gods had names, and their faces were as familiar as the faces of her parents. Worship was a septon with a censer, the smell of incense, a seven-sided crystal alive with light, voices raised in song. The Tullys kept a godswood, as all the great houses did, but it was only a place to walk or read or lie in the sun. Worship was for the sept.
凱特琳身受七種圣油祝福與加持，連命名儀式也是在浸沐於七彩虹光的奔流城圣堂里舉行的。她和父祖數(shù)代一樣信仰七神，她信奉的神有名有姓，臉龐也如同自己雙親般熟悉。她在香爐冉冉的圣堂里禱告，燃香氣味飄漫，有著光芒共生的七面水晶，和喃喃的人聲吟唱。徒利家族雖然像其他大家貴族般擁有自己的神木林，但只不過是個散步閱讀或在暖陽下休憩的處所，敬拜神明向來是圣堂里的事。
For her sake, Ned had built a small sept where she might sing to the seven faces of god, but the blood of the First Men still flowed in the veins of the Starks, and his own gods were the old ones, the nameless, faceless gods of the greenwood they shared with the vanished children of the forest.
奈德為她建了座小圣堂，好讓她有個向七神誦唱的地方。然而史塔克家族體內(nèi)依舊流淌著「先民」的血液，他信奉沒有名號也沒有容貌的遠(yuǎn)古諸神，那些屬於蒼翠樹林，曾經(jīng)與消失的森林之子共同信仰的神。
At the center of the grove an ancient weirwood brooded over a small pool where the waters were black and cold. “The heart tree,” Ned called it. The weirwood’s bark was white as bone, its leaves dark red, like a thousand bloodstained hands. A face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree, its features long and melancholy, the deep-cut eyes red with dried sap and strangely watchful. They were old, those eyes; older than Winterfell itself. They had seen Brandon the Builder set the first stone, if the tales were true; they had watched the castle’s granite walls rise around them. It was said that the children of the forest had carved the faces in the trees during the dawn centuries before the coming of the First Men across the narrow sea.
林子中央有棵古老的魚梁木，籠罩著一泓黑冷池水，奈德稱之為「城心樹」。魚梁木的樹皮灰白如骨，葉色深紅，有如千只染血手掌。樹干上刻了一張人臉，容貌深長而憂郁，滿是乾涸紅色樹汁的深陷眼凹怪異地充滿警戒意味。那是一雙古老的眼睛，比臨冬城還要古老，它們曾經(jīng)目睹「筑城者」布蘭登安下第一塊基石，倘若傳說屬實，它們也見證了城堡的大理石墻在四周逐漸高筑。傳說這些臉是森林之子在「先民」渡過狹海而來之前刻上去的。
讀物介紹：
《權(quán)力的游戲》是一部中世紀(jì)史詩奇幻題材的電視連續(xù)劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎(chǔ)改編創(chuàng)作，由大衛(wèi)·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網(wǎng)推出。本劇第一季于2011年4月17日開播，第二季于2012年4月1日回歸，第三季于2013年3月31日開始播出，第四季已獲得預(yù)定，將在2014年春季回歸。
