Arnadjanai mythology

This is a list of beings that were worshipped by Arnadjanai cultures, and various concepts in their religions.

## Deities

### Primordial deities

* Tapjasai - goddess of the sun and creator of the universe. Mother of the god Sūri, and the queen of the gods.
	+ She was named after the Tapias Nebula, where Wosono's sun was located in.
	+ The fact that she is also the supreme deity of the Arnadjanai pantheon causes the Arnadjanai to worship the sun instead of the moon.
* Thuzar - god of the north star. Father of the god Sūri, and consort of Tapjasai.
* Sūri - god of the sun and war. From his union with Maina, several kings and the chief stars were born.
* Maina - goddess of the moon and magic.
* Dīvar - sky god
* Thasuxar - thunder god
* Vūmirau - earth goddess. The fact that she is both the wife of Dīvar and Thasuxar, and also the ancestor of several ancient tribal rulers before the Arnadjanai, was used by Arnadjanai to justify polygamy.
* Dānju - goddess of water, queen of the mermaids and nymphs
* Dānai - goddess of forests and the hunt. Twin sister of Dānju.
* Gadisurar - god of animals. Anyone who accepts his offer of marriage is cursed to become a monster.
* Bagusal - god of darkness and death. Also the dreaded god of sexual abstinence, chastity, hunger, sterilisation, and oblivion.

### Nine Mothers and Nine Fathers

The ancestors of the Arnadjanai race who created and gave birth to them through a feast. They later used their slaves to produce their warriors, slaves, and Ferals.

Their members included Durthar-Vaixari, Rūrar-Vari, Baragau-Thulsa-Thadaruzar, Daxar-Dasi, and Sadjidra-Vaimadar as the first of their households and clans.

* Durthar - god of males
* Vaixari - goddess of females. From her union with Durthar, the artists, warriors, and musicians were created.
* Rūrar - god of fire
* Vari - goddess of fire. From her union with Rūrar, the leaders and warriors were created.
* Daxar - god of smithing
* Dasi - goddess of crafts and technology. From her union with Daxar, several smiths of Arnadjanai were created.
* Baragau - god of blades and fertility
* Thulsa - goddess of archery and fertility. From her union with Baragau and then with Thadaruzar, several clans of early Arnadjanai were created.
* Thadaruzar - god of shields and fertility
* Sadjidra - goddess of hunting
* Vaimadar - god of farming. From his union with Sadjidra, several nomadic and farming tribes were created.
* Thagisar - god of horses/salpar, masculinity, war, and fertility.
* Sanidjara - goddess of horses/salpar, femininity, art, dance, and female aggression in combat and sex. From her union with Thagisar, many (ig)noble families of male and female knights were created.
* Suru - goddess of slaves, desire, and greed
* Viru - goddess of fear, excitement, and non-heterosexuals
* Zarugar - god of servants, lust, and death. From his union with Suru and Viru, many slaves, workers, and entertainers were born.

### Other deities

* Kharuiman - god of wealth, trade, and commerce.

### Parapaxai deities

* Khuradran - founder of the Parapaxai and god of war.

* Durtavin - god of the forge and technology. Has seven sons: Zurta (swords), Sauroda (spears and cannons), Aldara (armour), Xuraz (bow and arrow), Lauzhar (axes), Dardji (guns), and Turnavas (chariots and vehicles)

* Urit - goddess of love, fertility, and female sexuality
* Davar - god of courage, anger, and male sexuality
* Varinda - god of the family
* Dranodan - guardian of kings

### Naumakanir deities

* Urisil - Great Consciousness
* Makirta, Sraverta, and Drasera - three visionaries who revealed the methods of the Great Consciousness to the Arnadjanai.
* Ranxile - seven immortal goddess-queens who ruled over Valgeta. Each Ranxil had hundreds of male and female concubines, which she used to make more servants.
	+ Each Ranxil was selected from the best students of an all-female academy. If a Ranxil is killed, two of the best students meditate. The winner becomes the next Ranxil, while the loser has a choice of becoming her advisor or to be expelled from the planet.
	+ Sevalta Ranxile - the last Ranxil-queens of Valgeta. Before their planet was incinerated in a supernova, they sent forth their children in thousands of pods to populate the northern galaxy. They are worshipped by Transcendence and the Naumakanir as goddesses of wealth.

## Characters

* vumadja - bathroom spirits that cause people to fall in love. They usually appear as attractive males or females (depending on which gender uses which bathroom or sauna), and they are either clad only in ferns or loincloths. In some cases, the vumadja are even naked to seduce the users.
	+ In Bujan, they are syncretised with the banniks, although they have been sanitised to just Cupid-like figures who only cause people to fall in love.

* vigavai - star-demons that hunt, kill, and eat people during lunar eclipses. Some vigavai planted seeds that grew to become the ancestors of the Arnadjanai, who later became consorts of Targar's children. Others created Targar and Sparxi as their toys to be tortured whenever they were displeased.
* Targar and Sparxi - the first man and woman, created by the vigavai as their playthings. After Sparxi gave birth to several children, the gods created three more wives for Targar to impregnate. Months later, these three wives were given males to breed with.
	+ They became the ancestors of the Epadwaranai.
* Paraxar, Luvadjar, and Karaskar - three brothers who split the Arnadjanai into their three distinct nations after they landed on the planet Ladurar, and ruled with their wives as their early kings and queens. Paraxar became the ancestor of the sedentary Parapaxai, Luvadjar became the ancestor of the nomadic Luvundarai, and Karaskar became the ancestor of the esoteric Naumakanir.
	+ At first, they shared one wife, Paurika, who produced the nobility of each of their nations. After Paurika went with Luvadjar, the other two brothers took some of their concubines as their wives.
* narisha - mermaids
* nairi - nymphs
* sparaxar - sacrificial victims
	+ Anyone who is killed as a sacrifice, who is castrated, or who dies a virgin ends up becoming this kind of shadowy ghost.
* krunai - flying horses, ridden by the Ranxil and their elites. (Naumakanir, Parapaxai)
	+ Some Parapaxai stole the krunai and used them as aircraft.

## Regional characters

* Azijar
* Asarar
* Bagadukhar
	+ The richest noble in Ladurar. He left behind a huge tomb with hundreds of slain slaves and Ferals.
* Gadikija
* Danasmara
* Gavusar
* Djabagijar
* Irambustar
	+ Created a city where outlaws and runaway slaves lived, and invented a writing system to help the tribes communicate. Although he was killed when a meteor burned his town, the survivors rebuilt it.
* Irauvi
	+ A princess of the rainbows.
* Kussa and Kaussai
	+ Two sisters who were good at archery.
* Maivarna
	+ A master weaver who was the mother to dozens of children and Ferals.
* Sharthirar
* Ukharzanar
	+ A master of the south who wears red.
* Uvaras
* Parspanarar

## Locations

### General/Luvundarai

* Sumir - spirit world.
* Snarxur - "Biting", hell.
	+ Arnadjanai believe that weak or bad souls end up in hell, where demons tear and eat their bodies, and their bodies reappear to be eaten again and again.
* Skanvari - "Masses", heaven.
	+ Arnadjanai believe that warriors and chiefs go there after they die, where they fight monsters for the gods, brawl, eat meat and get drunk and mate with celestial women. Female warriors also get these women as their concubines.
	+ Warriors can still go to Skanvari even if they have committed a lot of cruelty and killings, because their gods would consider them to be strong and worthy enough for their presence.

* Skunvar, Sparaxmandar, Spaxamandar - "Empty", ghost realm.
	+ This is the realm of ghosts and the bleak afterlife of sacrificial victims, slaves, and castrated people. If people are not careful enough, they could get eaten by its ghosts.

### Parapaxai

* Pulupala - land of many pools
	+ Paradise for drowned or electrocuted people. Inhabited by beautiful nymphs.
* Vanurmai - endless fields and hills
	+ Paradise for obedient and brave soldiers, where food is plentiful, the weather is good, hunting and wrestling are commonplace, and everything is clean. Everyone who goes there becomes a young adult. Women who live there never get pregnant.
* Xanarmas - land of the lost
	+ A bleak, misty land beyond the sea to the east
* Kharnuvanda - land of fire and lava
	+ A popular place where ancient heroes duelled and drank blood.
* Haunagaxai - land of the Epadwaranai
	+ Located beyond the sea to the west, where the ancestors were driven out of. Depicted as a realm of warring kingdoms where its golden warriors slaughter each other and bleed fire. A real place.
* Khushiraltiz - land of ice and snow
	+ The northerly home of the giants.
* Ashkavan and Zarashvan - twin islands of beasts and monsters
* Skuri - southerly islands of spices and coconuts

### Naumakanir

Naumakanir believe that by mutating their bodies, upgrading their technology, developing new chemicals, and continuously meditating to the Great Consciousness, they bring themselves closer to an upper heaven after they die.

* Xaramalsa - the seventh heaven, a blissful realm of gold. Those who ascend beyond join a collective consciousness that will shape the universe into a more peaceful place.
* Xaimalsa - the sixth heaven, a serene realm of silver
* Xarvaltar - fifth heaven
* Djoraltar - fourth heaven
* Nirsaibar - third heaven. Here, the genders and any form of sexuality are erased.
* Dorsoivan - second heaven
* Unseilan - first heaven. This universe.
* Numbultur - deep abyss for wicked people
	+ The wicked drown in a stinging sea of acid, mud, and asphalt, while the criminals and executed slaves end up as cannibalistic harpies. After hundreds of thousands of years later, they die and are reborn in Unseilan to start over.
* Valgeta - home planet of the visionaries Makirta, Sraverta, and Drasera. Formerly a world inhabited by immortals, they eventually became so esoteric that they became a race of energy beings, before they all died in a supernova whilst meditating.
	+ Ruled by the seven Ranxil queens, who overthrew an Anevondir dictatorship that feasted on the inhabitants and their blood.
	+ Ranxilli consist of three races: Highborn, which consisted of the Ranxil queens, their concubines, and their direct offspring; Citizens, produced between Highborn, concubines, or both; and slaves, which were clones and their offspring. Some considered offspring between Citizens and compatible species to be a fourth race, the Princelings, who were treated like Highborn.
	+ Slaves who displeased the upper classes were killed or ground into paste-like food.
	+ It was said that the Vigefion was invaded by arrogant Highborn Valgetans after the former burned the Golden Men of the Wosonoi.

## Concepts

* kurgan - a tomb for heroes, nobles, and renowned people.

## Trivia

* The author based Arnadjanai mythology from Scythian mythology, just as the Arnadjanai's traditional culture was derived from the Scythians of eastern Europe and Central Asia.
* Violence and sex were important elements in ancient Arnadjanai culture, as their creators used these traits to make the Arnadjanai look stupid and barbaric, to poke fun of the worst aspects of Vigefionian society.
* The fact that some of their gods had multiple consorts was used by the Arnadjanai to justify their polygamy and sexual drives.
* The Jennomboroi, the last "true" Arnadjanai on Jerde, still worship some of these gods, but they have also become sanitised. Most other Arnadjanai instead have converted to other religions.
* The Luvundarai (majority of Arnadjanai) are based on fantasy barbarians and Orcs; the Naumakanir are based on Nordic aliens and Pleiadians, and the Parapaxai are based on Starship Troopers.

## See also

* Heronoi mythology
* Arnadjanai glossary
* Bujanski folklore