Religion

A page to collect religious stuff.

Alliance General

• Order of the Universe
• Unknown holiday: Kasimmel. Sounds like one of the Core races, though.

Asanii

• Oaths and sayings: "Balance,", "NiiAna," "Sun's backside"
• Worship Nii and Ana; their religion focuses on the sun and moon, and polarities and moving between them.

Chatcaava

Living Air

• Living Air: An ancient Chatcaavan worship tradition, newly revived.

Ciracaana

Lifehawk Tribe

• Rite of the Vessel: A sacred ciracaana rite of the Lifehawk Tribe in which an individual is chosen by a totem.

D-Per

• The God in the Stream

Eldritch

• The major Eldritch religion is known as Amacrucia and involves the worship of male and female divinities in two roles: as guardians of mystery, and as intimate intercessors. The Lord and Lady are the mystery; the God and Goddess are the intercessors. For that reason, males swear by "God and Lady" while females refer to the "Goddess and Lord." Each sex is assumed to be intimate with their sex's deity, and to have access to the other sex's divinity only as a mystery, not as a known quantity.
• Eldritch Holidays

Glaseah

• Aksivaht'h, a goddess of wisdom.
  • Siv't temple, place of worship. Most are small / medium sized, but the large ones are where the Glaseahn reproduction is done.
• Glaseahn rites

Harat-Shar

Many Harat-Shar worship the Battleangels, a group of griffin-like beings, one for each of the intraraces (pardine, tigraine, etc.). Part of the reason that the cheetaines sometimes suffer discrimination is that they forked this religion, adjusting it into one that features a Christ-like figure named Kajentarel.

See also Harat-Shariin Religions.

• Oaths and Sayings: "Inverses"
• Peace Feast Day (Christmas-like equivalent)
• End of year festivity (falls in spring by Alliance Mean)

Hinichi

• Many Hinichi have adapted Christianity to their needs.

Karaka'A

• Oaths and sayings: "Bast and An above," "Thank God and Her Partner,", "Twenty midnight hells"

Malarai

• Naem-fili, avatar of the Malrai. Depicted in the Pantheon deck with teary eyes.

Phoenix

The Banners of an Eye-Trained Phoenix

The Eye of the Center of the Void is the Phoenixae major religion, which is almost more of a philosophy. It states that the object of every Phoenix's life is What Must Be Done, a mission granted to them by the Eye in the Center of the Void. The Eye sends them to this life (their only life) to discover this purpose and fulfill it; only this way can a Phoenix, on death, take his or her place with the Eye in The Where Beyond Chaos. Failure results in Dissolution; Phoenix believe that the remains of one's soul are used to craft the next people who will attempt that mission.

Only communion with the Eye reveals one's life mission, and this communion can only be sustained via detachment, so that one can see clearly; they call this detachment Stillness. People who are awash in emotion and attachment are clouded and cannot see or be seen by the Eye.

Because What Must Be Done evolves based on one's success at its pursuit, a Phoenix practices detachment as a matter of course. Most people credit the famed Phoenixae serenity to this practice.

(Stuff on Eye-Training here)

Seersa

• Oaths and sayings: "Speaker-Singer"

Tam-illee

• Naming practices (FoundNames)
• Iley, the Laughing God

Fleet

• Has a volunteer chaplain corps, which can handle many (but not all) issues.
• When funerals are performed, if the volunteer chaplain crew is not sufficient, officiating falls to the captain.