Re: Religious text in Conlangs

> How many of your concultures have religions?
O all of my (tho' I only have one, the one of the Animals).
The base of their religion is a sorta tolkien-like monolatry or
better say dualatry. They have the two Absolute Powers,
Ingonyama and Welenyama (LW Wiyanyama). The former is the Existence
and the latter is the Non-existence. A yin-yang-like concept, though
personalized.
And Ingonyama created the World and the Spirits of the Existing Matter,
whom Cats call 'netyeru' "gods" and in Meyadhew 'ndali'. They are almighty
between the borders of the existing world but they are bound to it.
And they are created either of the Mind of Ingonyama or the Mind of Wiyanyama
— and
thus they form two groups, being the Heanetyeru "light-gods" or the Duanetyeru
"dark-gods".
And Life sees the duanetyeru as the evil and the dangeroius for Wiyanyama
hates Existence
and Life, and those gods who were created of Her wants to destroy, life at
last if the Existence
itself can't be destroyed by them. And among the Hunting-Peoples many myths
and
stories are told of the heroes of the Past and the wars of the gods and so,
many of them are
still to be imagined but the frameand the base is the above.


> Sacred texts?
The Felines have a sacred text called Quala [ku'AlA], "Great Book";
in Hia qi Mau my novel there is a great role of that text.
This is a set of poems of how a cat should live. Cats believe that
Myála the goddess of Earth has given it to the mythical ancestor
of the feline nation, Winnit. It is never written down but they have a
manuscript, the Qayaquala [kAjAku'AlA] "Book of the Quala"
which was given directly by Myála and no mortal scribe touched it.
But it is written on an ordinary papyrus sheet thus it can be easily
damaged or perished thus it was more than once perished through
the millions of years. But there was always a chosen who re-received it.

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