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The Yunyalīlta may be described as a nontheist or an animist religion: there is no notion of a God or Gods as omnipotent and supernatural beings that are above all, but nature (''yunya'') herself is treated as a godlike element. "Godlike" supernatural beings, incarnating various traits of the ''yunya'', are however present in folklore and are most probably vague remnants of a pagan pre-Yunyalīlti shamanism.<br/> | The Yunyalīlta may be described as a nontheist or an animist religion: there is no notion of a God or Gods as omnipotent and supernatural beings that are above all, but nature (''yunya'') herself is treated as a godlike element. "Godlike" supernatural beings, incarnating various traits of the ''yunya'', are however present in folklore and are most probably vague remnants of a pagan pre-Yunyalīlti shamanism.<br/> | ||
The central focus of the Yunyalīlta is, however, the interaction between humans and the rest of the nature, as a subset of the interactions that living creatures (''lileñšai'', sg. ''lileñšah'') make with all other existing creatures (''jallašai'', sg. ''jallašah'') in this existential sphere (''jallajāṇa''). | The central focus of the Yunyalīlta is, however, the interaction between humans and the rest of the nature, as a subset of the interactions that living creatures (''lileñšai'', sg. ''lileñšah'') make with all other existing creatures (''jallašai'', sg. ''jallašah'') in this existential sphere (''jallajāṇa''). | ||
===''Yunya''=== | |||
The concept of ''yunya'' (often translated as "nature") itself has two main interpretation: according to the most common one, it is the force that binds the universe together and lets everything be what it is: the universe exists because there is ''yunya''. This definition admits a wide range of interpretations, straddling the border of what we (but not the Chlouvānem) would call religion and science, as in mathematician Lairyāvi Håneibayeh ''Mæmihūmia''′s famous quote "''gundadartarlā yunya vi : sama yunya gundadartarlā vi''" (mathematics is ''yunya'', and ''yunya'' is mathematics).<br/> | |||
According to another quite common interpretation (often mixed with the above), ''yunya'' is this force's manifestation, that is, nature. | |||
A peculiar aspect of ''yunya'' in Chlouvānem folklore is that it is always characterized verbally, with epithets such as "mother of life" (''lileni meinā'') or "holy mother" (''brausire meinā''), and therefore sometimes humanized, but is never represented in visual arts this way, even if, in the strictest sense, whatever is represented, and the bare act of representing, is itself ''yunya''. | |||
===''Lillamurḍhyā''=== | ===''Lillamurḍhyā''=== | ||