Karashi
Karashi is the name popularly given to a collective of six religious groups from the planet of Moya, all of which refuse to abide by the Panmoyanistic Church innitiative.
The Panmoyanistic Church is an organization created in an attempt to reduce the cruel and gruesome practices part of many rituals and traditions of various Moyan faiths, while creating a common pantheon, traditions, and values for the group of faiths.
The Karashi, whose traditions involve very gruesome and specially bloody rituals, and have deep connections with flesh and blood, refused to join the innitiative, as they used to believe -and still do believe- that taking those aspects off of their religion would annihilate their strict pyramidal structure, their culture, and most of the part of their faith regarding one's entrance into the adult world. It is for this auto-segregation and isolationist base that the groups were given the Karashi nickname, Foran for "solo, standalone; partypooper".
The six tribes form part of an organization they called the "Karashi Temple of Friendship", which stands as a political and purely diplomatic union between the six tribes, which serves as the face of the groups to the wider galaxy.
Groups
The Karashi groups are of 3 origins: Foran pagans, Variations of the Southern-Velan region, and Boreal temples. Pagans, also called anti-pantheonists, are composed by the Mare and Mareshi tribes, both from the western Velan mountains. These two groups have a reduced pantheon of gods, placing the god of blood at the top of their celestial pyramid and family tree. Their culture includes multiple rituals regarding evisceration and blood offerings, sometimes in the shape of firstborns or small animals. The Southern Velan region, also called Marya, has several different sub-groups of Karashi tribes, all from the Maryan faith, which feature several variations of one-on-one duels to the death, blood offerings, and several traditions regarding fasting. The Boreal Temples, composed of the other 3 tribes, all have very different faiths with not many common features. They all are located in the Boreal parts of the planet and have no unique god pantheons, with their one common element being that of firstborns' offerings.Outside view
Most of the wider galaxy has little information about the Karashi Temple of Friendship and its groups, but the core regions, were they caused a sensation due to their un-allegiance to the Panmoyanistic Innitiative, see their faiths as cruel, gruesome, unnecessarily bloodthirsty, and even mountrous.
Type
Religious, Organised Religion
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