Verse:Irta/Knench/Religion: Difference between revisions
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Qhirom ben-Qhenni constructs a neo-Hadīqūt; he translates many Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain texts into Knench. He views paganism as natural, rather than racial/essential to IE-speaking people. (Re Judaism, he notes how Rabbinic Judaism encourages pluralism, and he even sees some common cause with the Tanakh itself, because some objectionable things it condemns were also condemned by the Hadīqīm) | Qhirom ben-Qhenni constructs a neo-Hadīqūt; he translates many Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain texts into Knench. He views paganism as natural, rather than racial/essential to IE-speaking people. (Re Judaism, he notes how Rabbinic Judaism encourages pluralism, and he even sees some common cause with the Tanakh itself, because some objectionable things it condemns were also condemned by the Hadīqīm) | ||
Another Knench scholar Mathaj Faros disagrees somewhat, saying that | Another Knench scholar Mathaj Faros disagrees somewhat, saying that he can't believe in many gods because he already started out disbelieving in most gods | ||
Most modern Knench people are irreligious; among the religious, the largest religions: Christianity > syncretic paganism (modeled after Indian and Japanese paganisms) ≈ Judaism ≈ Islam (People usually don't go from Christianity/Islam to paganism, they go to irreligion) | Most modern Knench people are irreligious; among the religious, the largest religions: Christianity > syncretic paganism (modeled after Indian and Japanese paganisms) ≈ Judaism ≈ Islam (People usually don't go from Christianity/Islam to paganism, they go to irreligion) | ||
Revision as of 05:59, 11 May 2026
Main differences from OTL:
- Ashokan missionaries get to Carthage (this fact isn't provable in-universe)
- ... whose lect of Canaanite also somewhat differs from OTL and is more IE-influenced (from Azalic speakers; e.g. tense markers and negated adjectives/abstract nouns (e.g. bl h3wlt or later hbl 3wlt 'refraining from violence/wronging/victimizing') are more common)
Hadīqūt
Hadīqūt (out-of-universe note: this is a loan translation from Greek eusébeia, which translates dharma) is an offshoot of Punic religion that among other things condemns both human and animal sacrifice; its beliefs are somewhat poorly attested because of Christian suppression, but evidence about it survives in Latin and Greek texts.
It is forbidden to overexploit sacred groves (2šrym/2ašērīm, 2šr/2ōšēr is collectivized from 2šrt/2ašērō)
In translation, a Hadīqūt teacher is described as teaching as follows: "The Way of Piety is justice and righteousness; lovingkindness towards every soul and refraining from wrongdoing towards any of them; and steadfast devotion to the study and practice of Piety."
Middle Knench religion
Middle Knench Christian Bible translation (from the Vulgate, not the Hebrew/Greek) codifies Knench
Modern Knench religion
Qhirom ben-Qhenni constructs a neo-Hadīqūt; he translates many Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain texts into Knench. He views paganism as natural, rather than racial/essential to IE-speaking people. (Re Judaism, he notes how Rabbinic Judaism encourages pluralism, and he even sees some common cause with the Tanakh itself, because some objectionable things it condemns were also condemned by the Hadīqīm)
Another Knench scholar Mathaj Faros disagrees somewhat, saying that he can't believe in many gods because he already started out disbelieving in most gods
Most modern Knench people are irreligious; among the religious, the largest religions: Christianity > syncretic paganism (modeled after Indian and Japanese paganisms) ≈ Judaism ≈ Islam (People usually don't go from Christianity/Islam to paganism, they go to irreligion)