Lahhonism

== List of Books of Lahhonism ==
=== 1st book: Yet to be written ===
=== 2nd book: Yet to be written ===
=== 3rd book: Book of Mithusu ===
=== 4th book: Book of Lahhon (to be transcribed) ===
==Origins==
Lahhonism originated when Mithusu contemplated why in a world full of chaos, the sun traversed the same path every day.
Lahhon then made himself known to Mithusu and after some talk Mithusu pleged to fullfill a covenant in order to get Lahhon's strength in exchange to give Lahhon glory.
Latter on Mithusu did not keep the covenant for he grew distant of the rituals, and so Lahhon made all of Mithusu's enemies go after him and also took his strength at the same time, resulting on constant loses. Once Mithusu was alone with no one left to protect Lahhon comended him to go to what is nowdays Mithusu_City to mark the start of a new nation of Lahhonists.
==Early history==
In the early days, the temple to Lahhon was the grandest building that there was to see in the nation of Mithusu, however, once the nation found certain stability they where quick to erect far greater builds, thus making the initial grand ziggurat look small next to all the other big buildings in the nation.
It is belived that this was what prompted Lahhon to unleash a curse unto the Mithusian peoples to send them into an eternal sleep, that only a few ever managed to recover from. However, Lahhon saw the devotion of a farmer called Fartake and decided to make him the 2nd Malik of Mithusu.
After a few years, Fartake was getting very old, so much, that when he was making a sacrifice to conmemorate the covenant with Lahhon he ended up sliping and dying to the fire of sacrifice after having eaten a pufferfish, which had been eaten to show his strength to Lahhon. When Lahhon saw this happen, the Malik he apointed dying due to his devotion to himself, he decided to gather all his strength for an entire year in order to bring Fartake's soul back to the mortal plane, where he could keep taking care of the nation and Lahhon apointed him the High Priest of the Priesthood of Lahhon, for he showed his dedication enough to merit the tittle.
A few years latter, some rings of fire spawned in the construction site of the biggest building project yet to happen in the nation, there was confusion as to what it could have ment, some foreign religious members also had such similar rings spawn in their own lands within days of each other, however there was never a clear conclusion as to why it happened. Fartake, woried that a second curse would be unleashed, ordered a new and grander dessign for the ziggurat, for it has had a few upgrades but the main structure remained un-touched by anyone to the day. Since the fire circles where found on the drained sea bed, Fartake decided to ask for a more sea themed temple, for perhaps Lahhon wanted it to represent the travel that Mithusu took to get to the capital's location whe he fleed from his home land.
==The priesthood of Lahhonism==
The priesthood is a religious body that dedicates it's time and resources to the realization of sacrifices to Lahhon, the administration of the Labrary of the Ziggurat, the transcription of books and the spread of the religion across other lands.
It has 4 roles within it:
The priest is the lowest level, being the one who does the more basic tasks such as giving tours of the holy capital, providing flags and religious texts.
The scribe is a more upper class member of the priesthood, usually being reserved to life long Lahhonist and experienced priests. Thei main duties are to manage the library of the ziggurat and to transcribe texts as well as making new ones, such as poems.
The missionary is that who has been trusted by the High Priest to spread the religion outside of the national borders, this rank of the priesthood is only given to the most trustable and reliable on the priesthood, for they are to represent the religion in foreign land.
The High Priest is the one appointed by Lahhon to lead the priesthood and set its objectives, since its apointed by Lahhon it also has the privilege to be the one to do the sacrifices in the important events.
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