Verse:Hmøøh/Ngedhraism

Ngronaism (ing-ROH-nay-iz-əm (AmE) or ing-RON-ay-iz-əm (BrE), Eevo: Ñronaivih /ˈŋrɔnaivih/, Windermere: Thăngop Ronea 'Ngrona religion', Clofabosin: Ronevatran 'Ngrona-faith') is a religion founded by Anbirese pĭda (religious teacher) Emisom Jeodgan. The religion teaches that the Second Mover (a concept borrowed from Mărotłism) exists in the external world as a goddess named Ñrona, not merely as a force that exists within the mind; she is loving towards all sentient beings and wants to liberate them. Ngronaists believe that she is in opposition with the First Mover, a demiurge who created the current world with all the evil and suffering in it, and that she will eventually defeat the First Mover and usher in her heaven where all sentient beings who meditated upon her will go and rejoice in her radiance and beauty.

(Ngrona is basically Amitābha + the Monad.)

History

Jeodgan

Anbirese religious reformer Emisom Jeodgan was inspired by old Second Mover writings for his own idea of the Second Mover: He drew up an old Talmic goddess "Ngrona" (Eevo: Ñrona, Anbirese: Ngroneo, from hypothetical Tigol *Ñronae, from Thensarian Ȝronaeae), and claimed that she was the Second Mover. The First Mover, on the other hand, was an illegitimate demiurge who kept humans in the prison full of death and suffering, and our only salvation was to break out of the prison by any means necessary. Because of its promise of universal salvation, Ngronaism gained widespread popular appeal when it was founded.

Jeodgan greatly loosened Mărotłian religious laws at first, for example lifting the ban on eating land vertebrate meat.

However, some of his followers went even more hardline on vegetarianism, prohibiting all animal products that required killing the animal.

Textual canon

Like Judaism, and its sister religion Mărotłism, Ngronaism has an "open source" textual canon which allows additions. Thinkers from different time periods and environments have their own interpretations, though often informed by previous ones, on what exactly the philosophy entails about how humans ought to live.

Ancient texts

• The Avoranloeδūs are the largest known collection of Thensarian texts, including prose epics, poetry, wisdom literature, riddles and puzzles. Most importantly: it states its own incompleteness!

  φess·θūdiāsor subanmanōȝi φarnoe φinnom ābotot δulaħnar oncat ħlibnar...

  "Let the Second Mover complete this book of laws and rites..."

• The Sondmorið Manuscripts (Eevo: /ˈsɔntmɔrið/) are a collection of Thensarian- and Tigol-language manuscripts found in the Sondmorið caves of Skella. Among other things, they give a mythological account of human nature and origins. Devotional poems are also included.

Requirements for earliest texts:

• Some puzzles
• Should mention "1st Mover" (subanmanōȝi ȝoθloe) and "2nd Mover" (subanmanōȝi φarnoe)
• Some self-contradiction
• Fragmented rituals/laws but not too legalistic (there should NOT be a Torah!)
  • handwashing that conveniently largely coincides with what germ theory prescribes (handwashing after contact with bodily fluids or dirt)

Classical texts

• The Imthumăytil (Windermere, meaning "investigations") is a Classical Windermere text which depicts sages (Classical Windermere: impida, the title may be translated as "Master") discussing and debating various ethical and philosophical topics, and attempting to find the "true meaning" and "correct practice" of previous Talman religious traditions. Most surviving copies are edited by later impida in various schools of interpretation. The Imthumăytil was traditionally required reading in Talman schools.
• Muidhillechadh Gnaoth: a critical essay on the Sondmorið Manuscripts by Etsoj Jopah (in Anbirese)

Symbols and rituals

Ngronaism uses symbols, allegories, myths and rituals copiously, many of them of syncretistic origin; however, it emphasizes that these are allegories and myth, designed for absorption by the limited human mind.

Contemporary Ngronaism

anyway the idea is that sticking to tradition is against the will of the 2nd mover - this is where Jeodgan kinda introduces manichean dualism regardless of what god or anyone tells or you you should do, the second mover is what has the final say

the god to follow regardless of whether there is a god