[quote=TheUnknowable]
"Be fruitful and multiply"? Works for me.Most of the year the monks are sworn to chastity, but once a year in the holy week of Salata they can return home and reproduce to increase the number of followers of Snilu, their fish-god.
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Then they abandon their hatchlings for several weeks to weed out the weakest of their spawn. They then return and collect the deceased hatchlings and devour them in a ritual to the Great Snilu.

Or maybe not