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Re: Constructed Religions

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Thursday, December 31, 1998, 4:49
Kristian Jensen wrote:

> I'm sure many of you guys/gals have > created belief systems to accompany the con-culture speaking your > respective conlangs. So here I am asking, what are your religions > like? Monotheistic, polytheistic, animistic? What are the creations > myths? Are there specific religious institutions, temples, places of > worship associated with your con-religions? How is the world seen > through the religion - cosmology? I can go on but I'm sure you all > get my drift.
I have not fount much on Hangkerim religion yet (read I'm still inventing= it). The only I've found is that most people is actively ateist or they don't = care, but the religion and the life philosophy involved by it is part of every = day life for Hangkerimians. What is found in the books which are publish by the monastic clubs and to= ught at schools is something like this: It was a Creator who concived the universe, in the universe the earth as = a little nich hidden from the darks and the thunders for concive life. The= Darks and Thunders existed where the universe was created are still there and h= ere. For the Earth the Creator put a sun and a moon as guards for keeping the = Darks and Thunders away and for feed the life the Creator wanted to plant on Ea= rth. So the life was planted and from the plants and the spirits that emaned f= rom the creator the animals where born and the humans with them. But the humans = were not sentient, were just as any other animals living in the praires, in th= e jungle and in the mountain. And then, some spirits of the Dark were envious when they discovered the = Earth and covered it with ice and water, and many of the creatures died. Human= s begun to cooperate for surviving and proved this way to the Creator they where precious, so the Creator send a spirit with them and the spirite tought h= umans the language, the use of tools and the fire, so at humans themselves woul= d resist any other attempt of the Darks or the Thunders for conquering or destruying the world. The Creator still send spirits when ever humans have problems and the Cre= ator hasn't chose any particular people or culture. Some times the spirits ma= nifest in the voice and the acts of a particular person. Some times the spirits= would take a human form, or an animal form or even the form of a plant or an ob= ject. Some times the spirits give courage, but the Creator has never reveal him/her/itself because is affraid that his/her/its name would be used incorrectily. So it is wrong to adore the Creator. Hangkerim religious people have a cult for the sun and a cult for the moo= n, as the guards and feeders of the Earth. They adore nature. They adore the = jungle, the rivers, the sea and the mountains, with a special cult for volcans an= d snow covered picks. But they are not animist. They _know_ that the Sun, the = Moon, the nature, the jungle, the rivers and the mountains are not deities. T= hey are just part of the creation and therefor they reverence them because they c= annot adore the Creator. They believe that in every human being there are a spirit from the Creato= r, but also spirits from the Dark and the Thunder. It is important to dame the = evil spirits and cult the good one. In order to achieve it they must protect = the creation, inluding other humans and begining with their own family. Cooperation is very important for them. But they know they cannot cooper= ate if nobody is leading. Leadership is an important concept for them but they stablish a great difference between ruling or having followers and leadin= g. Leading is not about being follow but about serving for the purposes of achieving goals and being better. There are monastic clubs and priests. Munks preserve the beliefes and th= e books, and help society. Priests teach. A priest should be a leader, an= d actually most of them are natural leaders from the monastic clubs. If a = priest cannot lead society (s)he fails. Priests teach at schools or at clubs or= in formal asociations. They don't have special places. -- o_o =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dw=3D=3D=3Dw=3D=3D=3D=3D####### Chlewey Thompin ## #### http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/ ## ## ## ------------------------------------------------##-## ## ### - =BFPor qu=E9 no? - No tiene sentido. - =BFQu=E9 sentido? El sentido no existe. - El sentido inverso. O el sentido norte. El sentido com=FAn, tal ve= z. O sin sentido, como aqu=ED. (-- Graeville 2)