Well hello there

Hi all.

I'm Arikea Hargiutamá, or, as we would write in Kazujisha, Hargiutamá Arikea. I live in Rahean, which most of you probably know as the capital of Kazujisha. More precisely I live in the Kadelikae district of Rahean, Kadelikae heanashpá or (an Anglicism) Distrikta Kadelikae.

I haven't seen that much interest from others when I tell them on irc or such that I'm from Kazujisha. Most treat it like any other nation of Europe, and well, why should they not? Kazujisha isn't that different from other Western/Northern European countries.

Nevertheless I will blog about my life as a Kazujishan, focusing on what I know is different from other countries, our traditions. If there's anything specific you want to know about, ask away :-)

So, today's July 2, Itetalizipe dora. Kazujisha months are named after religious figures and concepts. Itetali is a person of great importance in Kazujishan religion (hereafter referred to as Talevalean religion) as she and her twin sister created the material world.

"From the beginning, there was Talevale and time with its guardians, Nepa (past), Omasietu (present) and Zazhyra (future).

Talevale was the world and all its aspects in the shape of a woman. One day she wanted children to give the world and its aspects to. Said and done, she became pregnant and after a while she gave birth to the adult twin sisters Itetali and Juakatla. However, Talevale died while giving birth, as she had to give her life to her daughters for them to "receive" the world. Therefore the twin sisters were now alone with the world and its aspects.

The twins decided to honor their mother by creating the physical world - stars, planets, rivers, mountains - with her body. They worked a long time, but soon they had created the vast world, the universe."

Quoted and translated from
Vãei junshaku Talevale inikyela "A short summary of the Talevalean religion" (2006), page 4

What might appear odd is that even though Talevale was everything, there were still the guardians of time. Talevalean religion views time as something vastly different from the physical world - time and world are separated from each other but work together.

Time is eternal and always-existing, but the world and its various aspects such as life, death, light, darkness et cetera are not "guaranteed" to exist. The guardians of time are as such therefore immortal and viewed as very mighty. They usually do not interfere with other gods or the world, and therefore they are rarely worshiped despite their might.

That's today's subject. Sleep well. Jinsya ni sôbrãeti.

Arikea
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