Theoism is a polytheistic astrolatry religion dedicated to the worship of all stars as gateways to the heavens, beyond which sit the of gods that drive and dictate the lives of mankind. The religion has no single head at its table, but a synod of the different major organisations of the religion; the different cults dedicated to the myriad of gods and godesses of Theoism, each with their own centre of operation.
It has become the dominant religion within the Ionian League, and has been spread across the Eastward Rim by the diaspora of the Ionian people. Many settlements across the rim possess at least one temple dedicated to the worship of Theoism, their great neo-classical bulk stark against the architecture of other civilizations.
Beliefs
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Deities
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Theos
King of the Gods.
Antenor
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Vitus
God of War
Agamede
Goddess of Justice
Proxenos & Petronax
Twin gods of time
Blepharo
The Forgemaster
Nigilia
Goddess of Love
Kosmas
God of the Stars, warden of the gates
Gorgythion
The Herald, the wandering god
Parthanon the Undying Lands
Parthanon the Undying Lands is the heaven of all heavens, said to be locked behind the great solar gates all but invisible to the eyes of mortals, sealed after some great act of hubris on the part of humanity, which saw them cast out of the high heavens of Parthanon. It is said to be a land like no other, ringed by tall mountains, with a valley floor fertile and rich with crops and grassy hills of a hundred different verdant colours. Upon the centre of the caldera sits Parthanon proper, the great city of the gods. It's towering walls and whitewashed towers, their golden rooved glimmering in the ethereal sunlight.
The gods and their servants hold sway over the realm of Parthanon, crafted by their hand as the stars once were.
The Endless Dark
Parathon, the seat of the gods, exists within a space referred to as the "Endless Dark" in the earliest Theoistic texts. The Endless Dark is described to be a great expanse of writhing twilight; its extent covered in blackened water. The Laws of Physics do not exist in this realm beyond the ken of man. Though depicted in both literary works and works of art as being a place of abhorrent darkness, never is it stated that it itself is malevolent of malicious in nature, only its denizens. Those poor few who are forced to walk the endless expanse of time, ever in the shadow of Parthanon's great golden gates.
Similarities with Linnageism
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Similarities with Sectatores Siderism
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Mythology
Creation of Mankind
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The Sealing of the Gates
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History
Origins
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Ossyrian Empire
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Ionian Diaspora
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Organisations
Synod of Theos
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Cults
Antanine Cult
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Vitian Cult
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Agamedan Cult
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Cult of Two Faces
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Cult of Belpharo
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Nigilian Cult
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Kosmine Cult
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Gorgythian Cult
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Texts of Faith
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Acts of Worship
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Places of Worship
Temples
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Death
Those of a Theoistic belief have their bodies tended to by the death priest of the --- cult, before their body is sealed inside a capsual with all the worldly possessions one might need in the afterlife, before being jettisoned into the star of that system, to pass through the gate and entre the Parthanon beyond.