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The '''Yunyalīlta''' ({{IPA|[junjaɴ̆ʲiːɴ̆ta]}}, [[Chlouvānem]] for "nature's path"), also referred to, amongst others, as ''lañšilīlta'' (braid path) or ''camilīlta'' (the great path), is the Chlouvānem people's traditional religion, the state religion in the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|lands of the Chlouvānem Inquisition]], majority religion in a number of countries of Márusúturon, including notably Qualdomailor, Brono, Fathan, and Gorjan, and also a minority in communities scattered across the planet, notably in most of Márusúturon, parts of Evandor (with a particularly strong presence in southwestern Holenagika), eastern Védren, Queáten, and parts of Ovítioná. | The '''Yunyalīlta''' ({{IPA|[junjaɴ̆ʲiːɴ̆ta]}}, [[Chlouvānem]] for "nature's path"), also referred to, amongst others, as ''lañšilīlta'' (braid path) or ''camilīlta'' (the great path), is the Chlouvānem people's traditional religion, the state religion in the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|lands of the Chlouvānem Inquisition]], majority religion in a number of countries of Márusúturon, including notably Qualdomailor, Brono, Fathan, and Gorjan, and also a minority in communities scattered across the planet, notably in most of Márusúturon, parts of Evandor (with a particularly strong presence in southwestern Holenagika), eastern Védren, Queáten, and parts of Ovítioná. | ||
The Yunyalīlta was born near the beginning of the 5th millennium (following the Lällshag-Chlouvānem calendar and current year notation) in the areas of the southeastern part of the Great Chlouvānem Plains around Lake Lūlunīkam and the Lanamilūki River (present-day | The Yunyalīlta was born near the beginning of the 5th millennium (following the Lällshag-Chlouvānem calendar and current year notation) in the areas of the southeastern part of the Great Chlouvānem Plains around Lake Lūlunīkam and the Lanamilūki River (present-day Ajāɂiljaiṭa, Ṣraḍhaṃñælihaikā, Nanašīrama, and Kanyāvālna, which are hence considered the cradle of Chlouvānem culture) through the teachings of the '''''Chlamiṣvatrā''''' ''Lelāgṇyāviti''<ref>Her real name is unknown: she got known by the name of ''Lelāgṇyāviti'' - meaning "born of ''lelāh'' flowers - and this is how she is today referred to if not by the honorific title of ''Chlamiṣvatrā'' - golden master -, which is either left untranslated or rendered as "Great Prophet". There are, however, countless other titles for her in later literature, including ''arāmīkā'' "the peaceful one", ''lallā'' "the higher one", ''cameyā'' "the great one", ''nilyameinā'' "mother of thought", or ''lelīmabrausa'' "the sacred one of the swamplands".</ref> who, after, according to chronicles (many details are, however, inconsistent), a difficult childhood and youth, conceived her life philosophy which she taught to peoples in the various multicultural villages of the Plains of that era - her teachings were the key factor in the birth of the Chlouvānem people as a new, métis ethnicity, from the many different peoples of the late 3rd millennium Eastern Plains.<br/> | ||
About a hundred years after the physical death of the Chlamiṣvatrā, Yunyalīlti preachers called ''murkadhānai'' (sg. ''murkadhāna'') founded a congregation called ''murkadhānāvi'' - known in translation as the Chlouvānem (or Yunyalīlti) Inquisition, still existing today as the institution that controls the teaching of the Yunyalīlti doctrine all around [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]] and acts as the ruling body of the theocratic country known, metonymically, as the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], the largest country on the planet. The founding of the Inquisition took place in year 4252 (2564<sub>12</sub>) of the [[Chlouvānem/Calendar and time|Chlouvānem calendar]]. | About a hundred years after the physical death of the Chlamiṣvatrā, Yunyalīlti preachers called ''murkadhānai'' (sg. ''murkadhāna'') founded a congregation called ''murkadhānāvi'' - known in translation as the Chlouvānem (or Yunyalīlti) Inquisition, still existing today as the institution that controls the teaching of the Yunyalīlti doctrine all around [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]] and acts as the ruling body of the theocratic country known, metonymically, as the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], the largest country on the planet. The founding of the Inquisition took place in year 4252 (2564<sub>12</sub>) of the [[Chlouvānem/Calendar and time|Chlouvānem calendar]]. | ||
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==Syncretist beliefs== | ==Syncretist beliefs== | ||
Due to the mostly philosophical nature of the Yunyalīlta, it rarely completely destroyed preexisting cults or religion, as these remained in some way as a substrate to the faith. This is notably the case even in the Chlouvānem tradition, as the pre-Yunyalīlti shamanist cults remained as an important folkloric element, albeit reïnterpreted in order to agree with the Yunyalīlta.<br/> | Due to the mostly philosophical nature of the Yunyalīlta, it rarely completely destroyed preexisting cults or religion, as these remained in some way as a substrate to the faith. This is notably the case even in the Chlouvānem tradition, as the pre-Yunyalīlti shamanist cults remained as an important folkloric element, albeit reïnterpreted in order to agree with the Yunyalīlta.<br/> | ||
This is noticeable even in the Chlouvānem language, as the former word for "shaman", ''vālireh'' (from a common Proto-Lahob root *wāʕirer, cf. Łaȟ. ''vor'', Yeł. Lawo ''lwara'' "shaman") came to mean "deacon" - a layperson working for Inquisitors (the current Chlouvānem term for "shaman", '' | This is noticeable even in the Chlouvānem language, as the former word for "shaman", ''vālireh'' (from a common Proto-Lahob root *wāʕirer, cf. Łaȟ. ''vor'', Yeł. Lawo ''lwara'' "shaman") came to mean "deacon" - a layperson working for Inquisitors (the current Chlouvānem term for "shaman", ''kanurmāka'', is a [[Qualdomelic]] borrowing (from ''kănurmaq''), but "shaman" in the context of the pre-Yunyalīlti Plain is translated as ''vālireh''<ref>Shamans among other present-day Lahob peoples are ''kanurmākai''.</ref>). Similarly, the word ''pahēšhānī'', which denotes the training institution in order to become Inquisitors, ultimately comes from the name of an older shamanic ritual (the basic root is PLB *jəxān-, not otherwise found in Chlouvānem but reflected e.g. in Łaȟ. ''iȟon'' "baptism"). Among languages of other Yunyalīlti traditions, for "deacon", Bronic and Qualdomelic borrowed the Chlouvānem word (''valire'' in both languages), while Skyrdagor uses the same word used for Jeranist priests' servants (''zythygro''), as does Holenagic but with Aselist "deacons" (''siuiliuht'', from Late [[Íscégon]] ''ciúliuten'', ultimately from [[Ancient Nivarese]] ''kylhosen''). | ||
While the Yunyalīlta is nominally an atheist religion, both the Yunya and the Chlamiṣvatrā Lelāgṇyāviti are represented and referred to as godlike. The Yunya is described as a sacred mother, that is everything and must not be betrayed, for there would be nothing if there were not nature.<br/>The Chlamiṣvatrā is represented and usually thought of as a god more than as a person (completely unlike what she herself said, despite it being clearly written in the Holy Books), with a knowledge above the one of any other person; she is also the most important figure in Chlouvānem identity, being often referred to as "mother of all Chlouvānem" - for Chlouvānem civilization was only able to form after the Chlamiṣvatrā "awakened and enlightened" people. | While the Yunyalīlta is nominally an atheist religion, both the Yunya and the Chlamiṣvatrā Lelāgṇyāviti are represented and referred to as godlike. The Yunya is described as a sacred mother, that is everything and must not be betrayed, for there would be nothing if there were not nature.<br/>The Chlamiṣvatrā is represented and usually thought of as a god more than as a person (completely unlike what she herself said, despite it being clearly written in the Holy Books), with a knowledge above the one of any other person; she is also the most important figure in Chlouvānem identity, being often referred to as "mother of all Chlouvānem" - for Chlouvānem civilization was only able to form after the Chlamiṣvatrā "awakened and enlightened" people. | ||