Dogma of the Soil
All known peoples on the face of Qara have a version of their own of what the Kiri refer to as Dogma of the Soil.
It refers to fear, and existentialism, it is a philosophy of Man being small, and always subservient to nature. To break the dogma would mean the death of nature, and the death of gods, and the death of *God* of the Orthodox variety. It would mean the evaporation of all things objective in morality; in the end, it would mean void. And to fill it with what? This is what those spiritual fear, in the end and truly so, for it has happened before. The Split between Orthodox and Adherent was a terrible thing-- yet this was only the Temple breaking into pieces, and not morality itself-- ethics, which govern all things political, and relating to princes.
The model of thinking is especially prevalent for the Kiri, who embody the dogma in their fear of the sea, which represents afterlife and the final frontier upon which no living men or women ought to venture. To dare the sea would be as if juggling on a tightrope with the end of the world below-- no harness, no fear. What can one to do so be called? Brave or mad? Some would call them stultic in their near blasphemous arrogance. The Kiri tend to look forward, and not crutch in one hand tradition, and the other the Book-- and in the end, they ask, with utter stoicism: Which will fall first - the City, or the Sea?
And this is a good question. For men ought to remain where to can walk-- their element, and farm the soil and the beings to gain the sustenance from the land. So is the dogma named, the philosophy and ancient culture from before the Lithen Pulpet was under Issqaran suzerainty. Indeed - many Kiri, druids and unadorned both, question the dogma: if a man can kill a god, then the god was no divine being to begin with. How can something end, or care of their children's disloyalty, which did not begin, had no beginning and so cannot end?
And all those clad fear the day when the City would fall, or the even the Sea.
It refers to fear, and existentialism, it is a philosophy of Man being small, and always subservient to nature. To break the dogma would mean the death of nature, and the death of gods, and the death of *God* of the Orthodox variety. It would mean the evaporation of all things objective in morality; in the end, it would mean void. And to fill it with what? This is what those spiritual fear, in the end and truly so, for it has happened before. The Split between Orthodox and Adherent was a terrible thing-- yet this was only the Temple breaking into pieces, and not morality itself-- ethics, which govern all things political, and relating to princes.
The model of thinking is especially prevalent for the Kiri, who embody the dogma in their fear of the sea, which represents afterlife and the final frontier upon which no living men or women ought to venture. To dare the sea would be as if juggling on a tightrope with the end of the world below-- no harness, no fear. What can one to do so be called? Brave or mad? Some would call them stultic in their near blasphemous arrogance. The Kiri tend to look forward, and not crutch in one hand tradition, and the other the Book-- and in the end, they ask, with utter stoicism: Which will fall first - the City, or the Sea?
And this is a good question. For men ought to remain where to can walk-- their element, and farm the soil and the beings to gain the sustenance from the land. So is the dogma named, the philosophy and ancient culture from before the Lithen Pulpet was under Issqaran suzerainty. Indeed - many Kiri, druids and unadorned both, question the dogma: if a man can kill a god, then the god was no divine being to begin with. How can something end, or care of their children's disloyalty, which did not begin, had no beginning and so cannot end?
And all those clad fear the day when the City would fall, or the even the Sea.
Summary
The dogma speaks through the Druidic faith in the Sea being grounds for the dead, and the dead suffer none to enter, at the sailor's peril! The expression, Dogma of the Soil, ought to be broken down in order to be explain simply.
Dogma, for the Kiri, refers to the unchanging, which remain due to it being unseen reality. There are two types: human and natural. 'Justice' is a human dogma, which refers to men giving as much in order to attain 'peace'-- the continuation of which is based on human factors, which are prone to change.
Natural refers to the number '3'. It remains, immutable, as does the triangle, or square, or the calculations describing celestial objects and their motions. Among the reasons for the Kiri being at times *very* resistant to new science is the reason, that their thought could well lose meaning, should Human coincide with Natural and thus create a hybrid. What then? This is amongst the major question for Dogma of the Soil. Example in the Countess Khaerlemmen synthesizing philosophical theories wildly in the 7-640s as well as Lord Harkgan explaining Human Dogma with natural ones-- that moral, is perhaps, in the end, to be explained with the natural, and vice versa.
Dogma, for the Kiri, refers to the unchanging, which remain due to it being unseen reality. There are two types: human and natural. 'Justice' is a human dogma, which refers to men giving as much in order to attain 'peace'-- the continuation of which is based on human factors, which are prone to change.
Natural refers to the number '3'. It remains, immutable, as does the triangle, or square, or the calculations describing celestial objects and their motions. Among the reasons for the Kiri being at times *very* resistant to new science is the reason, that their thought could well lose meaning, should Human coincide with Natural and thus create a hybrid. What then? This is amongst the major question for Dogma of the Soil. Example in the Countess Khaerlemmen synthesizing philosophical theories wildly in the 7-640s as well as Lord Harkgan explaining Human Dogma with natural ones-- that moral, is perhaps, in the end, to be explained with the natural, and vice versa.
Historical Basis
The original dogma begins with the Luwa-aran principalities, before the time roving clans from the far east mingled with the local populace, and eventually settled in the pleasant Issqar-Tvbéran lands, called then Harnoth.
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