religion

Consider, little ones, the Tree-dwellers, the very clay from which I sculpted your form. They do ...

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Unlike Earth holy days to which the spring feast is often compared like Easter and Passover, whic...

The Bright Way's approach to epistemology can be summed up as follows: 1. All animals' intelligen...

Academic childermoots are moots set up as schools, where the sires and dams are educators who con...

As a Farspeaker, Stormlight sees it as his duty to connect the human Internet with the monkey fox...

Yih has a ring. It has had some effect on yinrih culture. Winter days are darker and summer night...

St. Cloudlight* the sensible was a figure who helped with the renewal of the Bright Way after the...

This is a tentative symbol for the Bright Way, or possibly the Knights of the Sun. The yellow ci...

Here's a version of the above symbol that may be used by the missionaries.

Research monasteries are where most of the Bright Way's R&D took place. They emerged during the G...

Wayfarers see the evolution of life as a teleological process, and only a small part of the evolu...

An icon of sin is an artistic motif meant to serve as visual aid to examining one's conscience. I...

Hearthkeeper's Canticles are short poetic prayers that double as mnemonics to aid in a cleric's e...

thethief3 wrote: 2024-05-12T03:58:31+00:00 What's the Claravian relationship/doctrine with enviro...

Here's a symbol for the Knights of the Sun. It plays on the Claravian Star and Gear. The spikes r...

The Rite of Alightment is a ritual performed upon landing a womb ship. Ideally it's done in the p...

The hearthkeeper walks down the central aisle, striking the ground with the aspergillum held in h...

After the War of Dissolution, it became popular among hardcore Partisans to place icons of Clarav...

The Bright Way is ambiguous regarding the existence of what humans would call angels. The current...

The Bright Way believes that only beings that possess souls can be conscious. While all living th...

At the time of First Contact, the Knights of the Sun take many different forms depending on where...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-10-24T13:34:09+00:00 What was the stereotypical alien like in yinrih...

There was a period of natural religion prior to the Theophany that may have even preceded writing...

So it's the Winter solstice. Seeing as how this is supposed to be one of the high holy days in Th...

The Eschaton, or Omega Point, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the ultimate end state of the ...

A bit of Claravian popular piety says that right before a martyr dies, The Light grants them a vi...

`sbrPrFbrg` (bonekeepers) are volunteers who maintain the bones lining the inner and outer walls ...

Prayer rings are intended both as meditation aids and fidget toys, with very low friction between...

Know, o little ones, that the Light, and the Light alone, has kindled thy spirit within thee. Our...

Earlier I mentioned that most branches of Neoshamanism regard the noosphere as a spiritual phenom...

Claravian scripture is divided into two categories. The first is a very small protocanon consisti...

After the dawn of the information age, as the Neoshamanist Mindseekers made strides in artificial...

Some sects of neoshamanists employ exorcists to expel evil spirits from places and objects. Some ...

Hearthkeepers use dielectric chrism instead of blessed milk when performing rites of blessing on ...

Here's a different version of the logo for the knights of the sun. It's more obvious that the arc...

The fruit of our minds and work of mortal paws, it is but a pale imitation of thy handiwork. Outs...

Here's another picture of the star hearth, this time done with toon shaders.

It is common for Wayfarers to pray for the dead. It works a bit differently than most human faith...

Not set in stone, but the office of High Hearthkeeper will likely be term-limited, with the new H...

In the beginning, the tribal shaman tended the fire, protecting it from wind and weather. As the ...

A possible depiction of what was seen during the Theophany. It is an orb of light with a fringe o...

There is a symmetry between cosmology and epistemology in the Bright Way. A species' noosphere is...

Certain groups of the Agentivist branch of Neoshamanism have peculiar medicinal practices. Each s...

The stargazer's prayer is a simple prayer taught to pups. It is, as you probably guess, said at n...

The practice of defleshing the body and putting the bones on display is common across yinrih cult...

The three major daily liturgies at sunrise, noon, and sunset may have been inherited from Shamani...

I've mentioned elsewhere that a wrench is a symbol of the clerical office. Here's what such a wre...

In the Bright Way, the soul of a sophont is considered to have three "layers" or "parts". The app...

The sacred path is an ethical precept within the Farspeakers. It states that the messages between...

Noospherics refers to the study of the noosphere. It takes different forms depending on one's vie...

This is likely not canon, but I just thought about the Misotheists having "anti-liturgies", which...

In the Bright Way, fasting consists of abstaining from solid foods. Fasting and other forms of se...

Lighthouses have geographical boundaries. During the golden age and the age of decadence, the moo...

Scripturally accurate Claravian angel? Of course I've noted before that in the Bright Way angels ...

Narrativism is a philosophy that states that the truth claims of a conceptual framework, belief s...

So, more tossing stuff at the wall. I should really detail some of the other groups, but this ide...

The high perch is both a literal perch and a metaphor for the authority of the high hearthkeeper....

In the past, when the Knights of the Sun acted as a private security force for the Bright Way, a ...

"Some yearn for a yesterday that never was. Others desire a tomorrow that will never come. The re...

The internet map This is perhaps the closest thing to what I imagine the noosphere "looks like". ...

I've mentioned that some Wayfarers regard terms such as claravianism and claravism to be mildly o...

It's possible Neoshamanists monopolized healthcare in the same way that the Bright Way monopolize...

As today is the equinox (autumnal in my case), I figure I should at least muse a bit on the fall ...

The association of the seasonal feasts with life stages may be a Hearthsider practice that spread...

I'm really tired so let's see how weird this sounds tomorrow morning. There's this belief among W...

This is the transit of one of the Knights' orbital monasteries. The reason why they're called the...

Was just thinking about how militant misotheists seek to kill Wayfarers in order to starve the Un...

Jotting this down before I forget. Atavists believe that widespread beliefs can manifest as entit...

I have mentioned the Lifebringers in passing before, a group of Neoshamanists that sought to cre...

The office of High Hearthkeeper did not exist prior to the Shakeoff. Once Neoshamanism and Atavis...

A warm winter feast for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and a merry summer feast for thos...

Here's a possible symbol for the Farspeakers. The gear motif is present and accounted-for. The in...

http://www.orbitsimulator.com/formulas/ ... inder.html Following from my earlier post. This websi...

I posted this on the wiki but don't think I've posted it here yet A hearthkeeper's duty is to bri...

The City of Eternal Noon, located at the substellar point of Hearthside, is the center of religio...

Here's a Wayfarer's prayer ring. It consists of two parts: a freely rotating gear nested in an ou...

One might find it odd, given the yinrih's longer lifespan, that they were able to achieve spacefl...

V: From the breath of the sun The Light wrought the Earth. R: Glory to The Light! V: From the sto...

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers l...

The <rLr-sfB-g> /chuff, long low weak grunt, chuff, yip, early falling weakening whine, short low...

In the days when the Bright Way controlled interplanetary communication, farspeakers were respons...

There are several different ideas about what it means to fulfill the Great Commandment. Everyone ...