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==Religion==
==Religion==
===Traditional beliefs===
===Traditional beliefs===
Should be weird by Trician standards
The Sjowaázh traditionally believed in a "spirit-complex". The "spirit-complex" links all spirits together; spirits leave it when a person is born, and his spirit reenters the spirit-complex when he dies. This spirit-complex was held to be the source of morality. Since everyone is of the spirit-complex, morality involves both respect for the living and the dead. Hence ancestor veneration is not unusual, even in modern Sjowaázh society.


*Upper class: not that religious
Sjowaázh beliefs are agnostic as to whether non-human things have souls.
*Middle class: syncretistic
*Lower class: shamanistic; "shamans" preserve a dizzying diversity of traditional religious beliefs.
 
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The Sjowaázh traditionally believed in a "spirit-complex". The "spirit-complex" links all spirits together; spirits leave it when a person is born, and his spirit reenters the spirit-complex when he dies. This spirit-complex was held to be the source of morality. Since everyone is of the spirit-complex, morality involves both respect for the living and the dead.-->