The Church of Ubuntu

The people of Thanda Indawo are members of The Church of Ubuntu. Ubuntuns follow the Goddess of Life, Umama, also referenced as the Holy Mother. They live their lives in accordance with the teachings with Her.

All laws and policies are directed by the Isib'alo as translated by the High Priest. The Isib'alo is a collection of Ubuntun scripture. The most important book in the Isib'alo is the Book of Ubuntu which is the only book written directly by God Herself.

Each day, villagers meet in the churches for fellowship with one another as commanded by Umama in the Book of Busara. Each church has a nether portal in it and uses nether materials for parts of its construction because it allows Umama's spiritual energy to be stronger.

## Summary of Isib'alo Books

### Book of Genesis

The world was constructed by A Great Force but due to limitations of Its power It could not create intelligent life, only hostile mobs. So It created a second dimension filled with entities and materials so strong that the dimension could contain the soul of a spirit powerful enough to create intelligent life, the nether. She is the Goddess of life and the Holy Mother, Umama. She created the peaceful mobs and the first generation of villagers.

### Book of Jobs

After the first villagers were created, Umama blessed every villager with their own talent and taught them how to do each trade. Umama tells Her people that slothfulness is one of the most wicked sins; Any villager who does not contribute to the community shall be cast out from the village. Nitwit, the baker, doesn’t do his job and Busara, the farmer, does his job for him instead of telling the rest of the village that he sinned. This angers Umama and the volcano begins to erupt and causes ash to cover the sky in darkness. She commands the village to sacrifice Nitwit at the top of the volcano and they do. Umama is pleased and lava stops spewing from the volcano. Umama tells Busara she did a good job serving the community and is rewarded with knowledge of where to build the next city in order to grow yet to be discovered crops.

### The Book of Busara

Busara, the first farmer, goes where she was commanded to and built a town. She taught the second generation of villagers how to farm. Together, they built a large bunk house they would share until they built individual houses. Each day the villagers would wake up, work, and return to their homes alone. They grew tired. Busara prayed to Umama to be enlightened. Umama told Busara to go to the disused bunk house and build a bell tower on its side. Umama said that everyday villagers should gather here to talk with one another and rest from working. This time is also when they should meditate on the meaning of life and set their intentions for the next day to serve their community again. On the eighth day of this practice, Potus heard the bell from the tower and followed it to their town. He tells her that he was Nitwit in his past life. He apologizes for his sins against her and vows that he has devoted himself to the teachings of Umama and commits his life to serving the community. He shows her the golden plates which he brought back from the afterlife as proof but she is unable to read them. They are in a language she cannot understand but Potus can. Instead he shows her the journal he wrote that describes the nether and used instructions from the golden plates to create an obsidian portal through which he and Busara went and she saw that it was true what he claimed. When they returned the voice of Umama spoke to the villagers and said Potus should translate the plates so that everyone could read them and he should teach to all villagers the meaning of life which lies in the plates. Umama told all the villagers that Potus was to lead them and make laws which would govern the village using the principles of Ubuntu.

### The Book of Potus

This book tells about the afterlife. When sinners die their souls go to the nether and they reincarnate as piglins and that’s what happened to Nitwit. This book is written from Nitwit’s perspective. Umama gives Nitwit a set of golden plates and tells him he can be reborn if he follows the words in the plates. The only way to return to the overworld is by collecting 12 blocks of gold and creating a ring inside a body of lava which will form a portal to go back. Umama gave him the new name Potus and told him to follow the sounds of bells to return home. This is the jornal Potus showed to Busara in the Book of Busara.

### Book of Ubuntu

This book was given to Potus by Umama in the nether. The book was chiseled into golden plates in a language that can only be read by piglins and villagers who were reincarnated from piglins who remember their past life as a piglin. This scripture is given directly from God so if there is only one book you read in full it should be this one. It tells villagers how she wants them to act. She wants them mainly for villagers to share in the burden of tending to one another and to build a town with communal buildings for everyone to have access to everything. Things like hoarding, selfishness, slothfulness, lying are punishable by banishment or sacrifice. It explains that those who aid their community and love their neighbors get automatic reincarnation should they ever die. But those who sin must be reborn through the process of damnation. Sinners are cast into the nether in the form of piglins and given the same golden plates Nitwit was. After the information about morality are instructions to making a portal that can baptize the changed sinner and return xem into the overworld. They can only return if they have committed themselves to following the teachings of Ubuntu. Those who attempt to pass through the portal who have not will die and have no further chance for redemption. Pigs are either reincarnated as pigs again or sometimes they reincarnate as villagers. If you are trying to increase your village population, if you sacrifice a pig to Umama She may reincarnate its soul as a baby villager.