Editing Old gods (section)

==The old gods==
[[File:Sansa by robotdelespacio.jpg|thumb|[[Sansa Stark]] sitting by a [[weirwood]], by Josu Hernaiz ©]]
The old gods are nameless and numerous.<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/948/ Gods of Westeros], November 18, 1998</ref> The [[free folk]] who live [[beyond the Wall]] believe that the gods are everywhere—in the rocks, streams, birds, and beasts—and that they take the deceased down into the earth and trees.{{Ref|ADWD|prologue}} The [[maesters]] teach that the [[weirwood]]s are sacred to the old gods.{{Ref|ADWD|34}} However, worshippers believe the old gods watch through the trees.{{ref|AGOT|48}}{{ref|AGOT|53}} It is said that the old gods only have power where the heart tree faces can see, and since the destruction of most of the heart trees in the south they have no power there.{{ref|AGOT|53}}

It is said that the sigh of the wind and the rustle of leaves are the old gods speaking back to worshippers.<ref>[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/04/the-many-gods-a-dark-faiths-of-a-song-of-ice-and-fire Many Gods & Dark Faiths] article by [[User:Ran|Ran]] and [[User:Linda|Linda]]</ref> According to [[Jojen Reed]], the singers of the children believe that the weirwood trees are the gods, and that when they die, they become part of the godhood.{{Ref|ADWD|34}}

Worshippers of the old gods believe that no man can tell a lie in front of a heart tree, as the old gods know when men are telling a lie.{{Ref|ACOK|13}} Through the eyes of the weirwoods, the old gods judge the people in front of them.{{Ref|ADWD|prologue}} As such, an oath might be made in front of a weirwood tree,{{Ref|ADWD|17}} or with a hand placed in the mouth of the weirwood's face.{{Ref|ACOK|47}} It is said that the [[children of the forest]] carved faces in the trees during the dawn, centuries before the coming of the [[First Men]] from across the [[narrow sea]].{{Ref|AGOT|2}} According to Maester [[Luwin]], the faces were carved by the [[greenseer]]s to keep watch on the woods.{{Ref|AGOT|66}} The First Men believed that the greenseers could see through the eyes of the weirwoods.{{Ref|ACOK|28}}

The old gods were worshipped by the [[children of the forest]], and eventually after the [[Pact]], by the First Men.{{Ref|AGOT|66}} Following the [[coming of the Andals]], who brought the [[Faith of the Seven]], the old gods were no longer dominantly worshipped in the south of Westeros.{{ref|AGOT|66}} Only a few houses (e.g., [[House Blackwood]])<Ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1242/ The Faith of the Blackwoods], August 12, 2003</ref> still do, while most of the noble houses follow the [[Faith of the Seven]] instead. In the [[north]], however, the majority of the houses still worships the old gods. In the northern lands [[beyond the Wall]], the [[free folk]] continue to worship the old gods. Although some accounts state that there are clans who worship different gods (dark gods beneath the ground in the [[Frostfangs]], gods of snow and ice on the [[Frozen Shore]], or crab gods at [[Storrold's Point]]), there is no reliable confirmation.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Wall and Beyond: The Wildlings}}