Temple of the Anubites

"Si, the temple where the ancestors still lay."

The temple of the Anubites was a once glorious temple dedicated to Jaci, the goddess of death on the coast of the Coarse sea. It was a popular place for travellers to rest and for the Chupacabras to bury their dead. The dead of the Chupacabras would be brought to the temple to be wrapped and mummified by the order of the Anubites.

Purpose / Function

The temple of the Anubites was kept and guarded by an religious order of stationary Chupacabras who gave up their nomadic live for their goddess Jaci, the titular Anubite order. The Anubites gave up their traditional nomadic live styles to dedicate their lives and time to Jaci. Their temple was a place for other desert nomads to rest for the night, feed themselves and to lay their dead to rest.

Architecture

The temple is build out of mud and sand stone with a size of 55 meters long, 27 meters wide, and 15 meters high. There was an entrance o the eastern side which got flanked by two 10 meter high totems. The inside of the temple was covered with planks made out of box tree wood which depicted scenes of Chupacabras performing several funerary rites. In the back of the main room is a set of chairs which go down to the tombs underneath the temple. These tombs are filled with remains of the many Chupacabra's who were buried here. In front of the entrance was a giant stone bowl filled with fermented blood for visitors to feast on.

History

The temple of the Anubites was constructed around 950 BD by the great priestess Santeria. The temple stayed active until the Chupacabras began to domesticate Death Worms, which allowed them to travel fast distances without the need to stop or resupply. Slowly less and less tribes would pass by, and it became tradition to use the dead to feed the Death Worms instead of mummifying them, which eventually would lead the temple to be forgotten and abandoned at the edge of the desert around the year 450 BD.

RUINED STRUCTURE
450 BD

Type

Temple / Church

Parent Location

Coarse Sea

Owner

Jaci

Owning Organization

The Azen

Related Tradition (Primary)

• Anubite mummification