Teachings of Nuá
Welkin Archives on Religion and Spirituality
The teachings of Nuá is the heritage of the Anuán people and their cultural traditions. Their system of belief as tought through hundreds of generations from the second age until today.
The core of their spiritual traditions being that all souls relive the same life again and again, each time furthering their understanding of the divine. Divinity is perfection and beauty and so to become one with it, you need to mirror its flow and will, become perfection itself. When you do, they believe that you ascend the coils of mortal living and become part of the divine, a god able to feel and observe the rhythm of creation.
Perfection is often sought through art and so their teachings is often accompanied with schools of creativity and art. Their monasteries is home to painters, writers and philosophers seeking this divinity.
''Body and soul know perfection when it sees it, an acknowledgment of the heart. To engage with the stream of divinity, we must lay bare our heart and rid ourself of mental toil. Thoughts is noise, hindering the streams flow...''
- Common Anuan mantra.
They were great artists and architects, though all of their works have long been lost and only exist by second and third hand accounts, marbling in their beauty and brilliance. The Anuans believed that through the act of achieving perfection in all things, you came closer to divinity.
''...what I saw I could hardly believe. The great structures stood up like pieces of art, sculptures moulded by the hands of Hyperion himself. The colours endlessly creative and joyful a true imitation of natures effortless beauty. It most have taken thousand of cycles, hundreds of lives just to finish a single building. At that moment I noticed the small children, with not a speck of distraction, sitting at the base of a building slowly painting with the tip of their fingers, creating intricate illustrations. Almost as if they acted as one, in solidarity with life or something more. Then I knew I had to learn.''
- Unknown traveller, on the discovery of the Anuáns.
The core of their spiritual traditions being that all souls relive the same life again and again, each time furthering their understanding of the divine. Divinity is perfection and beauty and so to become one with it, you need to mirror its flow and will, become perfection itself. When you do, they believe that you ascend the coils of mortal living and become part of the divine, a god able to feel and observe the rhythm of creation.
Perfection is often sought through art and so their teachings is often accompanied with schools of creativity and art. Their monasteries is home to painters, writers and philosophers seeking this divinity.
''Body and soul know perfection when it sees it, an acknowledgment of the heart. To engage with the stream of divinity, we must lay bare our heart and rid ourself of mental toil. Thoughts is noise, hindering the streams flow...''
- Common Anuan mantra.
History and Belief
There are a lot of conflicting accounts of where the Anuáns originally came from and how they vanished from the face of Pangea. But the most popular theories agree that they most likely lived somewhere in the deep east in the early period of the Arcane Twilight 200 - 300 AD second age.They were great artists and architects, though all of their works have long been lost and only exist by second and third hand accounts, marbling in their beauty and brilliance. The Anuans believed that through the act of achieving perfection in all things, you came closer to divinity.
''...what I saw I could hardly believe. The great structures stood up like pieces of art, sculptures moulded by the hands of Hyperion himself. The colours endlessly creative and joyful a true imitation of natures effortless beauty. It most have taken thousand of cycles, hundreds of lives just to finish a single building. At that moment I noticed the small children, with not a speck of distraction, sitting at the base of a building slowly painting with the tip of their fingers, creating intricate illustrations. Almost as if they acted as one, in solidarity with life or something more. Then I knew I had to learn.''
- Unknown traveller, on the discovery of the Anuáns.
Type
Religious, Other
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