Quote Originally Posted by NoloeTazier View Post
Well they're a new race to Eorzea, if the Paragons get a hold of them then they could definitely teach them to summon a Primal. Which makes me wonder because the Ixali worshiped Garuda long before the Paragons taught them to summon her, so I wonder how they exactly learned about her if she was sealed up in Mor Dhona...well underground Mor Dhona.
I can give you part of the answer to that. Garuda and the other primals weren't sealed in Mor Dhona. What was sealed in Mor Dhona was a massive concentration of aether. The release of this aether just allowed the beast tribes to start summoning the primals. The tribes most likely worshipped the primals long before they could summon them. We know for sure that the Ixal have been worshipping Garuda for longer than they've been able to summon her. After all, they didn't lose the ability to fly recently. I really like the theory that was put forth in one of the other threads here on the Lore forum that Garuda might be the cause of them slowly losing their ability to fly as a way to make them more dependent on her.

My guess of how they originally learned of the primals is that in some earlier era the primals were free and later banished and worship of them has been passed down for thousands of years. One of the lore experts probably has a better theory though.