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Culture
Culture and cultural heritage
Clergy/Leadership
Structure
The religious heirarchy is branching, strong, and religious roles are generalized. Primary functions are to determine holiness, speak for the divine, and often lead ceremonies/rituals.
Clergy
Clergy are virgins who are older than 85 years and not trained in politics. To join a religious order requires being schooled, and often ordained by elder clergy.
Lifestyle
The average clergical lifestyle is self-supporting, although some live in a solitary manner. Clergy are expected to be promiscuous, and display their status with facial scars, and more rarely a special uniform.
Angering the ruling class warrants the death penalty.
Structure
The religious heirarchy is branching, strong, and religious roles are generalized. Primary functions are to determine holiness, speak for the divine, and often lead ceremonies/rituals.
Clergy
Clergy are virgins who are older than 85 years and not trained in politics. To join a religious order requires being schooled, and often ordained by elder clergy.
Lifestyle
The average clergical lifestyle is self-supporting, although some live in a solitary manner. Clergy are expected to be promiscuous, and display their status with facial scars, and more rarely a special uniform.
Angering the ruling class warrants the death penalty.
Shared customary codes and values
A costume is most likely to be given to a young boy. A doll is most likely to be given to a young girl.
Education is divided by social class.
Education is divided by social class.
Common Etiquette rules
Good people are expected to be modest and filial.
Evil is defined as indifference, envy, and despair.
Stupidity is the worst flaw.
The spirit world includes mischievous spirits, angry ghosts, and often ambivalent nature spirits. The average person avoids any spirits, and more rarely is cautious about them.
Outsiders are usually mistrusted, and sometimes ignored.
Evil is defined as indifference, envy, and despair.
Stupidity is the worst flaw.
The spirit world includes mischievous spirits, angry ghosts, and often ambivalent nature spirits. The average person avoids any spirits, and more rarely is cautious about them.
Outsiders are usually mistrusted, and sometimes ignored.
Art & Architecture
The highest art forms are calligraphy, woodcarving, and sometimes instrumental music.
The knowledgeable - the magi and other scholarly folk - are the most valued members of society.
Offensive works of art are ignored.
The knowledgeable - the magi and other scholarly folk - are the most valued members of society.
Offensive works of art are ignored.
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
Prayers
The divine is more likely to hear an adult's petition, if the person is of Z ancestry and not older than 66 years.
The divine will always speak to people with certain experiences.
Rituals
Rituals are usually formal, secret, and take place over or near water.
Preparation involves purifying, bathing, and self-sacrifice.
Rituals include singing, rote responses, and sometimes chanting.
The ritual calendar is set according to the hours. Rituals begin at midnight and occasionally last an hour or two.
Symbols
The most important symbol consists of stylized letter and an open eye. Lesser symbols are a shield and a local animal.
The most common liturgical colors are lamp black and mauve. The highest religious ranks wear copper, and vermillion is reserved for holy days.
Holy Days
There are 6 holy days in a calendar year. 4 holy days focus on new teachers. The remainder commemorate past revelations and past miracles.
Celebrations usually include fortune-telling and athletic competitions, and often extensive drinking.
The divine is more likely to hear an adult's petition, if the person is of Z ancestry and not older than 66 years.
The divine will always speak to people with certain experiences.
Rituals
Rituals are usually formal, secret, and take place over or near water.
Preparation involves purifying, bathing, and self-sacrifice.
Rituals include singing, rote responses, and sometimes chanting.
The ritual calendar is set according to the hours. Rituals begin at midnight and occasionally last an hour or two.
Symbols
The most important symbol consists of stylized letter and an open eye. Lesser symbols are a shield and a local animal.
The most common liturgical colors are lamp black and mauve. The highest religious ranks wear copper, and vermillion is reserved for holy days.
Holy Days
There are 6 holy days in a calendar year. 4 holy days focus on new teachers. The remainder commemorate past revelations and past miracles.
Celebrations usually include fortune-telling and athletic competitions, and often extensive drinking.
Coming of Age Rites
Coming-of-age rites require getting tattooed/scarified, performing an ordeal, and more rarely being purified.
Funerary and Memorial customs
Death is viewed with great sadness. Death rites require sacrificing small animals to accompany the deceased, clergical supervision, and often more than 13 days seclusion for kin. Bodies are buried in a river.
Common Taboos
Taboo subjects are wearing certain colors, certain clothing, and often using certain language.
Suicide is most seen as a horrible, sinful thing.
Suicide is most seen as a horrible, sinful thing.
Common Myths and Legends
The system is polytheistic. The divine is considered matriarchial, and follows a nature-derived model.
Origins
The world was created when land emerged from the waters, and humans were made from the divine.
Major Deities
the Protection god
the Wealth goddess
the Doctor goddess
the Bridge-builder god
the Memory goddess
the Trickster god
the Harvest god
the Nightmare god
the Daydream god
the Debt god
the Darkness goddess
Minor Deities
deities of Candlemaking
deities of Butchering
deities of Knowledge
god of Gardening
goddess of Death
deities of Sorrow
goddess of Children
god of Cats
god of Duels
The Elevated
83 teachers
1 prophet
32 deified humans
Afterlife
Life after death is incomprehensible to the living, although minor sects say the afterlife is a state of enlightenment.
The afterlife can not be reached by living humans.
Principles
In general, the religion is focused on positive relationships, avoiding divine wrath, and to a lesser degree, avoiding killing.
On a personal level, people focus on following the rules, self-control, and sometimes ending sin.
Origins
The world was created when land emerged from the waters, and humans were made from the divine.
Major Deities
the Protection god
the Wealth goddess
the Doctor goddess
the Bridge-builder god
the Memory goddess
the Trickster god
the Harvest god
the Nightmare god
the Daydream god
the Debt god
the Darkness goddess
Minor Deities
deities of Candlemaking
deities of Butchering
deities of Knowledge
god of Gardening
goddess of Death
deities of Sorrow
goddess of Children
god of Cats
god of Duels
The Elevated
83 teachers
1 prophet
32 deified humans
Afterlife
Life after death is incomprehensible to the living, although minor sects say the afterlife is a state of enlightenment.
The afterlife can not be reached by living humans.
Principles
In general, the religion is focused on positive relationships, avoiding divine wrath, and to a lesser degree, avoiding killing.
On a personal level, people focus on following the rules, self-control, and sometimes ending sin.
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