Elunite Faith

The Elunite Faith is a blanket term for a number of related religions, unified primarily by their veneration of the moon-goddess, Elune. The most prominent component of the Elunite Faith is the Sisterhood of Elune, which is the dominant religion among the Kaldorei. However, smaller Elunite sects and cults also exist freely within the Faith, and members often drift into other sects freely and without particular difficulty due to the focus on similar concepts, the same deity, and similar religious practices.
==Unifying Doctrines==
===Elune Worship===
===Divinity of Nature===
==Differing Doctrines==
===Sacrificial Offerings===
The practice of animal and sapient sacrifices is a contentious matter in the modern Elunite faith. It is simultaneously accepted and rejected by the mainstream priesthood on a subsect by subsect basis, usually associated with pro-sacrifice henotheism and anti-sacrifice polymorphic monotheism. Common practice includes offering up certain body parts of honoured animals, and a rejection of the sacrifice of sapients. Ancient practice, largely rejected, endorsed offering the flesh of the enemies of the Goddess in sacrifice; accordingly, some traditionalist and conservative sects continue the practice - sometimes going so far as to sacrifice captured Horde prisoners.
===Polymorphic Elunism===
===Henotheistic Elunism===
===Genuine Polytheistic Elunism===
===Ancestor Worship===
==Holy Sites==
*Darnassus Temple, etc.
*Hajiri's lost temple.
*Suramar's lost temple.
*Winterspring holy site. (Wildkin Temple?)
*Nordrassil
*Blackfathom Temple
==Sects==
===Minor Sects===
*The Dor Sa'al Ash-Shandi, a fringe absolutist monotheistic cult and terrorist organization.
*The Wayward Daughters; a secretive and predominantly Sin'dorei monotheist sect found mostly among members of the House of Starshadow and their associates. The Daughters also claim a number of Quel'dorei, human and half-elven members, and are exclusively female.
Category:Elunite Faith
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