Moporiellism

Moporiellism is a religion that began roughly 67,000 years ago in the center of the eastern continent. Today the religion has 8.9 million followers. Scrolls with the legends and myths of this religion have been found dating to several periods over the 67,000 years of its existence. Through all the texts each once provides the same accounts and descriptions, as close to word for word between languages.

Moporiellism tells of the Great Black Snake that rests beneath the earth. It is said that Great Black Snake slithers into the ground thousands of meters down coiling around the core of the planet. The snake coils and coils around the intensely cold materials in the center of the world keeping the core from expanding. The heat that exudes from the ground is the body heat of this massive snake in eternal motion. Great Black Snake is also the reason that the world rotates and has days, seasons, and years. As the snake coils around the core they generate motion for the entire planet.

Great Black Snake is the hero of this religion, a deity that has given their eternal life to protect all of creation. The other deities that populate the pantheon include Cunning Orange Frog, said to be the trickster deity bent of causing mayhem for those who choose to embrace evil. There is Malicious Blue Porcupine, an evil deity that seeks to cause death and pain for mortals. Swift Yellow Hawk flies over the world giving ambition and guidance to all those who walk in the sun. Not as far down as Great Black Snake, Quiet Red Meerkat lies in wait for all the futures that it can see, providing prophecy to those who seek it out. In the rivers and lakes Lazy Purple Sunfish swims, moving the sun along with it to give life, light, and shortcuts to those who can find it.

Each god is revered in a practice that many other religions across the world find disgraceful, but they exalt their deity of choice through the consumption of animals that match each deity. In difference to other Pantheons, there is not a separate following for each deity, they are all equally revered by their followers, as they recognize that nature is a collection and each part works with each other one. The devotees who put their entire life into the service are called Droplets, as together they water the earth to make way for the holy ones.

Droplets spend much of their teen years preparing for this profession. They train in survival for many years. After this they are sent out into the world on their own. They spend 2 years living with what they can. Droplets are allowed during this trial to work for money to procure supplies, but they must spend twice the amount of time in nature as they do in cities. If the amount of time spent in nature is not enough at the end of two years, they continue their stay in nature till the requirement is met. Those undergoing the trial are not told this, but those who have passed can easily divine if the correct amount of time has been spent in the wilderness. They also know if someone has passed as they will be at least 2 animals that accompany them to temple to receive their passage into the order.

Once Droplets have passed this right they receive a tattoo that spans from wrist to wrist that depicts the deities and other legends. Once the tattoo they are able to see other Droplets time amounts from their initiation. They also are able to commune with nature to learn certain information, like locations of animals and such. Droplets also receive a cloak that also has sleeves, a strange and impractical cloak that grants Droplets the ability to become a part of nature like land, plants, or water to commune with the deities.

The holy site from the religion is located in Lasigum, and is a hole in the earth that is told to be the path that Great Black Snake took to get to the core of the world. The sacrifice of Great Black Snake became necessary when the Strong White Tiger, the keeper of ice and cold, retreated to their layer after a fight with Malicious Blue Porcupine. Nobody is sure if they died or not, but the cold that came from the their layer was soo much that Great Black Snake had to take action.