Deuterism

Deuterism, also known as Acropaganism and The Grieving Earth is the most common name for a branch a Falkenite/ Causa religion which developed in the northeast of Obe during the colonization of Mars.. Traditional Deuterist religious practices include animism and shamanism, in which spiritual healers mediate with spirits. Deuterist cosmology provides a narrative about the world and the place of people within it. The Deuterist cosmos is ruled by no one. There are no divine mother and father figures. There are no wind gods and solar creators. There are no eternal punishments in the hereafter, as there are no punishments for children or adults in the here and now.

Beliefs

Geist

Traditional stories, rituals, and taboos of Deuterism are often precautions against dangers posed by their harsh Arctic environment. Deuterism revolves around supernatural entities called the geist. The geist are believed to inhabit all things, including forces of nature and prominent landscape locations. The geist are worshiped at Hausheiligtum household shrines, family shrines, and Bögen public shrines. The latter are staffed by priests, known as Hausarzt, who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific geist enshrined at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and geist and to solicit the latter's blessing. Other common rituals include the veeteelt dances, rites of passage, and seasonal festivals. Public shrines facilitate forms of divination and supply religious objects, such as amulets, to the religion's adherents. Deuterism places a major conceptual focus on ensuring purity, largely by cleaning practices such as ritual washing and bathing, especially before worship. Little emphasis is placed on specific moral codes or particular afterlife beliefs, although the dead are deemed capable of becoming geist. The religion has no single creator or specific doctrine, and instead exists in a diverse range of local and regional forms.
Prominent spirits that are often given public shrines are usually forces of nature or magical beasts that roam the spirit world. Some examples of nature spirits include:

Spirit	Concept or Territory
Thaumorus	Chaos
Ciara	the Forgotten
Cerene	the Sun
Igyn	the Moon
Irteus	The Rain
Rextrix	Defender of the Forest
Madra	Witch of the Woods
Delia	Matron of the Dead

Cosmogony

The Crysoperul recounts that the universe started with the Geburt des Lebens, the separation of light and pure elements (taivaaseen, "heaven") from heavy elements (maata, "earth"). Three geist then appeared: Thaumorus, Gen, and Oso. Other geist followed, including a brother and sister, Dell and Delia. The geist instructed Dell and Delia to create land on earth. To this end, the siblings stirred the briny sea with a jeweled spear, from which Keslo Island was formed. Dell and Delia then descended to Earth, where the latter gave birth to further geist. One of these was a fire kami, whose birth killed Delia. Dell descended to taivaaseen to retrieve his sister, but there he saw her body putrefying. Embarrassed to be seen in this state, she chased him out of taivaaseen, and he closed its entrance with a boulder. Dell bathed in the sea to rid himself from the pollution brought about by witnessing Delia's putrefaction. Through this act, further geist emerged from his body: Cerene (the sun geist) was born from his left eye, Igyn (the moon kami) from his right eye, and Irteus (the storm kami) from his nose. Irteus behaved in a destructive manner, to escape him Cerene hid herself within a cave, plunging the earth into darkness. The other kami eventually succeeded in coaxing her out. Irteus was then banished to earth, where he married and had children. According to the Crysoperul, Cerene then sent her grandson, Moritz, to rule Falken, giving him rabbit-shaped beads, a blade of tall grass, and a sword: the symbols of Causa authority. Cerene remains probably Falken's most venerated geist.

Type

Religious, Pantheon