what is the Bible for the religion of the 9?
I know thrers alot of stuff about the 9, but is there a book of everything??? I mean what would the priest read to them during services did they just pull out 5 different books to get the message to them...it dont make much scene if they dident have a holy book

I honestly don't have much of a clue. Oblivion didn't give allot of information on that. It never showed anything beyond the out line of a polytheistic catholic church.

Though I never had the impression the Nine were much for telling stories from a holy book but rather to provided the rituals to appease the gods and to educate people in a practical sense. For example the priests of Zenithar would give seminars on bartering, trading and investment, while the Temple of Dibella would instruct people in areas of aesthetics and intercourse.

There is the book Ten commands:nine divines, but otherwise I can't think of any other works.

The Tribunal Temple had a large selection of reading material, including the 36 sermons. The Nine Divines have.....one book. :stare:

The Sermons aren't necessarily part of Temple Doctrine, I don't think. They're primarily directed at the Nerevarine(s).

Yeah, but they're still written by Vivec, so it sort of counts.

The bible is the word of God, but we are the descendents of the Divines. Some of us witnessed their teachings enacted, and a guidebook is unecessary.

Gods and worship has some information. There's probablly a mod or something. All hail the PC overlords who I'm secretley planning to overthrow and stuff!

The cult of the Nine Divines is a syncretism of recent origin, as there were earlier only cults devoted to individual Divines, and to an extent the worship of particular Divines continues. Martin does not declare himself a priest of the Nine but a priest of Akatosh. Thus the existence of a scripture pertaining to the Nine Divines in the cult's present form would be improbable.

Also, a great deal of knowledge and ritual may be passed down by individual teaching and oral tradition, making the use of books as source and record secondary.

Nor does the Tribunal Temple, though it has a more extensive written tradition, have a scripture as its primary witness. They have (or had) no need for such, as their gods lived among them and spoke to them directly.

There are works like http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/monomyth.shtml#Cyrodiilic, and http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/trials_st_alessia.shtml defines itself as part of a liturgy, by definition itself a form of public ritual, and they both probably make up some sort of canon. Still, there's probably only a corpus of established but varied texts that they dip into every now and then, rather than our culture where we have a semi-continuous collection of scriptures bound together and considered a sort of cohesive narrative. Maybe each of the temples have additional scriptures pertaining to their particular gods.

Why should they have a bible/one holy book? This isn't Christianity, you know.

The chapels sure looked awfully similar though....especially compared to the low-key Imperial Cult shrines in Morrowind.

True, they do look very Western European-Christian, but that's where the similarities end that I can see. They don't even seem to hold 'sermons' (though that's not to say they don't), it's apparantly more like citizens going at their own time for private worship.

But that doesn't mean religions don't have holy texts.

No they don't. Stop hallucinating. Listen to this guy, he's out of his mind.