Daitisum

#### Beliefs

Daitisum gets the core of its philosophy and cosmology from a holy text known as the Daitávshtrá, a text believed to be a compilation of the first eight great prophets as well as many lesser preachers, which have been harmonized and corrected in many places by the ninth. Daitávshtá opens by explaining that the universe was once a great expanse of grassland surrounded by an infinite void. In this grassland there was a pride of Lions with fur as black as onex and a pride of Lionesses with fur as white as sand. Each was lead by great Lion, The Black Lionesses where lead by their King Māherūs (Fathomless Waters) and the White Lionesses where lead by their Queen Shazrartrá (Brilliant Flames). It is told that these two clans battled for many years and there battles carved out oceans and mountains and rivers and shattered the land into many continents. Out of this battle arose a force known only as Tav’shanäu (The Great Chaos) to avoid the speaking of its true name. Tav’shanäu was calamity, it was the absence of life, the storm which rips apart villages and the lightning that terns sacred forests to cinders. But it was also out of these battles, found in the blood of beasts and ashes of grass and trees that a now force was found, their name on the wind, swept up by roaring fires oceans and roaring fires and on the tongue of the lines who no longer would fight, Tav‘Mat (The Great Balance). One day, on what would be the first day of the 1001 year, if the sun and moon had existed yet, King Māherūs and Queen Shazrartrá themselves met in battle, followed by hosts of Onyx Black Lions and Sand White Lionesses. Together they engaged in a tiTavnic battle so great it nearly split the sky asunder as rain and winds batted the earth and volcanoes and bursts of lighting shook the sky. But this battle only lasted for one day, as one the second day of of the 1001 year, if the sun and moon had existed yet a great voice echoed across the sky and earth and commanded the armies to stop their war, Tav‘Mat spoke and told Shazrartrá and Māherūs that they had been enslaved by Tav’shanäu and that it was the Great Chaos that was their foe, not each other. For the next 363 days the three the three gods battled against Tav’shanäu and it was sealed below the earth never to arise again.

Fundemetaly Daitisum belves that the world is in a cosmic struggle between Tav’shanäu (The Great Chaos) and Tav‘Mat (The Great Balance). It is the responsibility of humanity and all of mortalkind to seek balance in themselves and the world to aid in keeping Tav’shanäu sealed for eternity and the eskape the cycle of Ashjäu (Violence/Internal disorder), in order to ascend to Tav'Xershtá, a heavenly afterlife. The Most important step is to achieve follow the Visher Ganāt (The Holy River). The Visher Ganān consists of three holy orders, each flowing like a river into the next. The first stretch of the Visher Ganāt is the Azda Modzī (Seven Principles). The Azda Modzī are as follow

1. Ausha Tav'Mat (Balanced Thought): Turn away Tav’shanäu from your thoughts and let neither Māherūs nor Shazrartrá dominate your mind.
2. Avsha Īja’Dil (Good Thought): Let your mind consider only good thoughts and let its focus turn away from evil.
3. Xervax Tav’Mat (Balanced Words): Turn away Tav’shanäu from your words and say only that which prompts balance. Do not speak the name of Tav’shanäu with reverence or in holy spaces or in means undeserved
4. Xervax Īja’Dil (Good Words): Speak not with the intention to cause unjust harm, take to kindness of speech. Take neither the names Māherūs or Shazrartrá or Tav‘Mat or any of the names of the prophets in vain
5. Kāmat Tav’Mat (Balanced Action): Seeks to bring balance to the world, do not desecrate holy spaces and do not offer prayer nor sacrifice to one Lion and not the other.
6. Kāmat Īja’Dil (Good Action): Do not commit harm nor take captives unjustly, do not take which is not yours nor commit thievery unjustly. Do not take to reckless damage nor make unwanted advances and do not commit murder nor enslave others.
7. Hasir Xeräd Adēb (Follow the Path of Cats/Lions): Follow the Road of Hasir Xeräd Adēb, for it leads to Jā‘Māt.

The Hasir Xeräd Adēb is a mantra used to describe the process of applying the first six of the Visher Ganāt and as an inner prair used to aid the faithful in overcoming temptation against the Visher Ganāt, the Hasir Xeräd Adēb goes as follows.

Ausha Tav'Mat leads to Avsha Īja’Dil

Avsha Īja’Dil leads to Xervax Tav’Mat

Xervax Tav’Mat leads to Xervax Īja’Dil

Xervax Īja’Dil leads to Kāmat Tav’Mat

Kāmat Tav’Mat leads to Kāmat Īja’Dil

Kāmat Īja’Dil leads to Azat

Azat leads to Tav'Xershtá