Essaxonism

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**Essaxonism** is a religion that was created in the far south and became one of the largest existing faiths in the known world and beyond. Replacing the once dominant faith of the former Minervian Empire and establishing itself as its state religion, Essaxonism expanded into the known world and persists even after the downfall of the empire. A member of Essaxonism is called a Essaxonist. The symbol of the faith is the cross. The holy scripture is the Divaso.

## Faith

In the beginning, there was nothing but Dyēus. He created the idea of existence and fromed the spoken word in it. With the word as his tool, he created light and darkness, joy and sadness, life and death. But Dyēus felt alone. He created the angels, loyal servants who were governed by Archangles like Darius, Nam and Tanas, vassals of Dyēus. They lived in his realm which they called "The Divine Kingdom." But that wasn't enough for Dyēus. For his own pleasure, he created the earth with all their oceans and lands, forests and mountians, days and nights and animals and plants. But still Dyēus wasn't satisfied. He wanted children, something he gave life to and recieved love from. The Archangel Tanas than came to him and said that he has to give such creatures free will if he want to recieve love from them. "But it would make them also vurnuable to sin and evil" added Tanas. Dyēus decided to create a species with a free will and placed them in a garden on earth. These species were the humans.

Dyēus made sure that the humans followed high moral standards and worshiped him like the angels do. But Tanas wasn't amused about this because the thought that Dyēus prevnts them from their true potential and sneaked himself into the garden in the form of a snake to sow the seed of evil and introducing mankind to sin. With evil in the hearts of man, they cutted down the trees in the garden, plucked the flowers and killed the animals there, traumatizing them and making them fear humans forever. After there was nothing left the humans left the garden and settled down in multiple parts of the world away from each other, turning away from Dyēus and worshipping their own gods made out of stone and clay.

When Dyēus saw what Tanas just did to the humans, he got angry and scolded him saying that he does not tolerate evil in his realm, punishing everything that does so. But Tanas answered that all he wanted was to make humans unfold their true potential and evilness is necessary for succsess. Some angels agreed to Tanas while others stayed on Dyēus side. Dyēus then said "If you like the wicked so much, why not live in it?" creating the underworld, a place where only pure corruption exists and every mortal soul would suffer endless pain. He threw Tanas and the angels who were on his side in the underworld, turning them into demons and devils. But Tanas swore his revenge. He will not stop to sow the seed of evil in mans heart until the end of time, sending his demons unto earth corrupting the minds and souls of man.

Dyēus knew that Tanas wouldn't stop, so he sended mutiple prophets like Mirdan and Miriam to the people to teach them how to retun to Dyēus who sees them as his children even tough he has to punish evil. But no matter how many prophets he sended and rules were established, ways to get back on the righteous path, most of the humas stayed sinfull and created realms of decadence, turning their back to Dyēus. He knew that he must punish them for their wrong doings, even tough he didn't wanted to. So he decided to sacrifice himself instead of mankind to save the earth from his punishment. He told the Prophet Eli to tell his people that one day he will come to earth to safe all of mankind. And so he did. After thousand years of longing, this prophecy should become true.

It was in the former Kingdom of Essax which got conquered by the Minervian Empire, where the princess in exile Martha gave birth to a boy she named Yescho. The birth was seen as a miracle because Martha was still a virgin. People tought that Dyēus sended him their new king who will free them from the Minervian Empire and establish the Kingdom of Essax once again. She raised the boy who began to claim to be Dyēus and came to sacrifice himself for mankind. When Yescho became a young adult, he traveld around the land to preach to the people about how they could avoid evil, forgive each other just like he did and find their way back on the righteous path to Dyēus. He also declared that he was indeed Dyēus, which was seen as heretical by the priests and politicans in the region Yescho preached in. Even tough Yescho perfomred countless miracles to prove his point, the people remained sceptical, some even beliving he was send by Tanas. Because he was the creator of all, Yescho also lifted rules that were established by prophets and holy man before him, because he claimed that they weren't needed anyomore after his sacrifice. That crossed the line for the priests and politicans and they ordered the prefect of Essax who governed the region under the name of the Minervian Empire to arrest Yescho and mark his death. The followers of Yescho tried to protect him, but the death sentence was part of Dyēus plan for salvation and he let himself being arrested. Even tough the prefect wasn't sure if Yescho was a true criminal, he still sentenced him to death by crucifiction, a common form of execution in the Minervian Empire. After hours of sufferance, Yescho died in the year 33 a.f.C, letting his followers left in dispear.

Dyēus plan was fulfilled. He sacrificed himself to save mankind and now every man can return to him without fearing punishment, because every sin has been forgiven. But this wasn't the end. Because Dyēus is an immortal god and can't be stopped by death, Yescho rase from his grave and returned to his followers, which rejoiced with him, proving to them that he is indeed Dyēus. He declared his most trusted followers Darion, Jero, Kitu and Selma to be his enovys and preach his sacrifice as well as the message of his return to the world and make them find back to the righteous path. After this meeting, a cloud came from the sky and took Yescho away from earth, returning to the realm of Dyēus becaue he's work on earth was done. Now he watches the earth, awaiting people who retunred to him and the latter day.

### The Holy Scripture

The original Divaso was assumably written by the Four Enovys, Darion, Jero, Kitu and Selma to gather and archive their witnessing of the wonders and miracles of Yescho, as well as his teachings and holy message to the world. At first, every enovy wrote a book by himself until Darion declared that it would be better to put these scriptures into one book. The councial of high priests in Essax in the year 411 a.f.C decided to add in the letters of the enovys to the essaxian communities and other writings from prophets and holy man before the comming of Yescho together with the prophecy of Eli in the Divaso as well. Even tough every book has their own chapters the Divaso can be divided in:

1. Mirdans Tale of the Beginning
2. Tales of the First Chosen
3. Book of Kings and Man
4. Book of Law
5. Prophecy of Eli
6. Book of Darion
7. Book of Jero
8. Book of Kitu
9. Book of Selma
10. Tale of Return

## Teachings

"*Thuss there is only one god and this god is Dyēus (..) He let himself crucified by man to safe them from his punishment. After he put the sins of man upon his shoulders and sacrificed himself, the sins of man are forgiven and the one who shall accept the forgivness of Dyēus should be awarded with the sweet pleasure of comming home.*" This was ritten in the Book of Darion which ressembles a important aspect of the faith. In genrel, Essaxonists believe that Dyēus went down to earth as the messiah Yescho to sacrifice himself for mankind to save them from his punishment for being corrupted by sin. After his crucifixion, every man that accepts the forgiveness Dyēus offers him, he returns back to the "righetous path" that was originally intended for mankind by Dyēus before Tanas seduced them to evil. If a man converts to Essaxionism, they say that he "returned" or "found back to the path." Every human is seen as a "Child of Dyēus" and Dyēus resembles the "Father Above." Tanas may be the archenemy of Dyēus but he is just an angel, a creature created by him. He can only act as far as Dyēus allows him to do, which explains why demons feared Yescho when he perfomred his miracles. Yescho and Dyēus are one and the same person in Essaxionism with Yescho being the human vessel of Dyēus. If a man dies, he either "returns home" to Dyēus meeting him "The Divine Kingdom" if he has accepted his forgiveness during his lifetime or will be punished for his sins and wrong doings and be sent to the underworld where he must endure eternal sufferance if he didn't. Dyēus does not tolerate evil in his realm. Essaxonist belive in the end of time, calling this date "the latter day." On this day, Dyēus in the form of Yescho will return to earth followed by his angels and fight against Tanas and his army of demons. Because Dyēus has to punish evil, only Essaxonists will survive this battle. Dyēus then will defeat Tanas and his demons once and for all, forbidding evil to take over the hearts of man ever again and re-establishing the time before sin infested the earth.

The name "Essaxonism" was given by the people of the Minervian Empire, which marked the faith as "the movement from Essax." While Essaxonists back then refered themselfs at first as "Yeschonites", they later adapted the term for their faith as well, establishing "Essaxonism" as the main name of the religion. The city and region of Essax still plays an important role for the faith until this day.

## Schism

Being one of the largest religion in the known world, Essaxonism is also the one with the most demerging faiths.

* Faith of Essax
* Unutarianism
* Kelebiardy
* Divasanism
* Tanaism