Spirit Healing

Spirit healing is a form of raw magic that requires a conduit (someone living who can interact with the physical world) and a spirit (the soul of someone that the conduit had a close relationship with) to heal wounds, diagnose illness, and ameliorate disease. Different cultures have different interpretations and explanations for the mechanics of spirit healing.

## Huetlalli Spirit Healers

Spirit healers in Huetlal were often either ticitl or tonalpouhqui, serving important roles in the community but not having any particularly high status. Huetlalli people visualise people as a combination of three souls: the tonalli connects individuals to divinity, the teyolia hosts memories, and the ihiyotl represents the agency of an individual and their ability to change themself and the world around them. Spirit healers can interact with these three souls in a physical manner because of their connection to their spirit. By imbibing in hallucinogens, the spirit healer can join their spirit in the sky realm, which rests above the physical plane. The spirit and spirit healer work together to address maladies in individual souls, or help adjust the balance of the three within a patient.

With the fall of Huetlal to the Meziavelan Empire, Huetlalli people were forced to practice their medicine in secret, slowly losing understanding and history of spirit healers in their culture as they became rarer and rarer. However, not all the information has been lost, and younger generations of Huetlalli ticitl are renewing the old knowledge and covertly researching to progress the understanding past even that at the height of Huetlal.

## Jewish Spirit Healers

Like most things, if you asked any ten rabbis to explain spirit healing, you would get twelve different answers. The theory posited by Rabbi Melech bin Elijah was that some spirits were unable to move onto whatever occurs after death, due to attachment to a particular conduit. However, given that they lost their physical form, this brought them closer to G.d and made them able to channel His being in a more direct manner. In order to affect the physical world, however, they needed a conduit to work with them and serve as a bridge between the in-between and life. The spirit healer was then able to make good actions as a way of bringing G.d into the world. Spirit healers can cure illnesses by addressing both the physical maladies, such as sealing over cuts, and by stitching the soul back together to heal internal wounds.

## Spirit Healing and Revenants

The process of creating revenants originated from a bastardisation of spirit healing (specifically the Jewish understanding, although other influences have been incorporated) by Sanctified Creed onomancers under the management of the Imperial Seat of Meziavela. Where spirit healers were believed to shape souls and reconnect them with the physical form, the onomancers reversed the process to divorce the soul from the body, allowing a revenant to exist both as a 'normal' person, and as a formless spirit. Much experimentation was done to reach this conclusion, primarily on indigenous Southern Cantanan people and immigrants to Meziavela.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/witchcraft-and-sorcery-in-ancient-mexico
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec\_medicine