Throughout the Discworld series Pratchett tweaks religion. Here's his first foray:
At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hast convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but a payment of two rhinu (gold coins) left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He wasn't as holy as all that.
We also learn how photographs are made - a tiny homonculus lives inside the "magic box" and paints them. Pratchett will make use of this in future books as well.
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