is it likely that the “church of starry wisdom” as mentioned in the Worldbook, found in the port cities of Essos and Westeros, is just another name for Melisandre’s religion? something i noticed, though i could be just reading into random word choices, is r’hller appears to be the sun personified, dragons seem to be related to comets, and shadowbinders–or at least quaithe–have a lot of starlight imagery in the narrative, which is a lot of space/star related images for the red faith

No. The Church of Starry Wisdom is a Yi Ti-sh cult, entirely separate from the Red Temples of R’hllor. 

It’s also a Cthulhu reference, whereas R’hllor is a Zoroastrian/Manichean reference.  

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