Gyrion

Gyrion, the All-Seeing, whose cult is to seek below the aspect of illusion, is one of the five sons of Thaedon and one of the primary deities of the Thaedonu-Vaati pantheon. His consort is Sidra and their daughter is the goddess Auruu.

Gyrion is the god of knowledge, wisdom, perception, and insight. He is the keeper of the Book of Aeons, wherein he writes a record of the deeds of every Vanir-Vaati and of all things that come to pass in the lives of each of them, and which is used by Kaephus to judge each one after their death. He is also associated with time, prophecy, divination, and true-seeing. He may grant hidden knowledge to those who seek it properly.

**Symbols and Attributes**

The divine attributes of Gyrion are, of course, his great book and the lambent pen with which he writes in it. There is also his lamp, which signifies that he will illuminate the path of knowledge to those who seeks truth below the aspect of things.  Gyrion's statues often show him seated, with the Book of Aeons held in one hand (or open on his knee with hand upon it) and his other hand upholding his lamp. This lamp is typically depicted as spherical, without a handle and held in his palm (like a king's royal orb), with four spouts spaced evenly around its body and a triple-pointed ornament atop it. A small lamp of the same sort is carried by his priests and is a holy symbol to them, and around their necks they wear a holy amulet whose medallion depicts the four-flamed lamp.  The four spouts spaced evenly around the lamp signify the illumination of the four corners of creation, chasing away all shadows of illusion and ignorance, and bringing knowledge in all directions. The triple-pointed finial atop the lamp represents past, present, and future; all are known to Gyrion. The lamps held by statues in Gyrionic temples are often functional, with wicks and a hollow body to hold oil, and are kept burning by the priests.

Diamonds and other clear gemstones are also considered sacred to Gyrion, due to the obvious connotation of clarity. The holy articles of high-ranking Gyrionic priests may be ornamented with diamonds and similar jewels.

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**Priests and Devotees**

Priests of Gyrion are concerned with accurate time keeping, and in their temples they maintain and use water-clocks of great accuracy and beauty. Also use sundials and other timekeeping mechanisms, and make accurate celestial observations, charts, timetables, and such. They are generally the priests responsible for administering Utara-Vaati's complex religious calendar, tracking the cycles of sacred time and determining when a given festival, holy day, holy season, or other event will begin or end in a given year.

His priests' vestments include a hooded and cowled robe of pale grey with long voluminous sleeves, bound around the waist with a long-tasseled sash whose fringed ends hang down from the knot.

**Servants and Minions**

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**Temples**

Unsurprisingly, temples of Gyrion are often home to, or connected to, extensive libraries maintained by the priesthoods who attend to the temple (or by associated orders of monastic librarians). Some of Orithea’s greatest repositories of recorded knowledge are in Gyrionic temples, or the archives associated with them.

Temples of Gyrion also serve a depository function for the important records and documents of those with such things to protect. A city’s merchants, magnates, rich families, and prominent citizens will often entrust the local temple of Gyrion with the safekeeping of their wills, deeds, marriage contracts, and so forth. This is especially likely with documents whose contents are to be kept secret, for instance, wills that are not to be unsealed under the death of the testator. Documents entrusted to the depository vaults of the temple of Gyrion are vouchsafed by the priesthood, whose vows of secrecy and guardianship are well-known to be inviolable. Anything in their custody is protected not just by the priests and their temple guardians, but (it is widely believed) by potent magical wards and by the gimlet gaze of Gyrion himself; those who dare violate the sacrosanctity of his temple vaults are thought to invite dreadful curses upon their own heads. Breaching this sanctity is a heavy taboo.

In the same vein, cities, rulers, and kingdoms may entrust vital documents such as charters, ancient law tomes, etc. to the custody of the Gyrionic priests. For instance, the city of Torrune has the XXXXXXXXXX, a set of oracular utterances laid out in classical verse of ritualistic high Tuvai dialect, which date back to the age of the Old Empire and deal with the fate of the city. These tomes are accorded holy status, and are brought forth to be consulted and interpreted before certain important decisions are made about the city’s governance. They have been entrusted to Torrune’s temple of Gyrion since ancient days, and when not called for, are kept in a special chamber within the temple’s vaults. Similarly significant records, relics, ritual items or objects of symbolic importance, etc. are deposited in the care of Gyrionic priesthoods in many places throughout Orithea.

**Holy Days and Propitiation**

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**Cult Centers**

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