PANTHEON

Ixenthacronism recognizes 90 deities as truly real. These are divided into two categories: 50 Divine and 40 Disgraced (also often “benevolent” and “malevolent”). Within these two categories, they are further arranged in three immutable tiers: Greater Gods, Medial Gods, and Lesser Gods. A god’s place in the hierarchy is unchanging and inherent; gods do not rise, neither do they fall. The 50 Divine Gods are further divided into Sects according to the Triumvirate member they descend from. The 40 Disgraced Gods are likewise divided into two houses, depending on which Disgraced Greater God they descend from (20 from Sauralachi, 20 from Intoplan). Uniquely however, the Disgraced Gods are also divided into redeemed and unredeemed gods. Redeemed gods get to live in communion with the 50 Divine Gods, but cannot be worshipped nor can they receive sacrifices, prayers, or temples. The unredeemed gods are imprisoned in the Realm of Water to be tortured forever. The following are all 90 of the gods divided into Divine and Disgraced, divided by tier, and listed in hierarchical order along with their Sect (White, Black, Red):

*Unredeemed gods in red*

DIVINE GREATER GODS- The Triumvirate

1. Sleuon Kaprotheix- Patriarch of the Universe, Master of Humanity, Anointer of Nations, Supreme of Wisdom. God of Creation, the Sun, Life, Light, Justice, Harmony, Kingship, Creativity, Reason, and Judgment. King of gods deity. Author of mankind, paradigm of the human mind, source of all intellect. Life giver, life retriever. Eternal, uncreated creator, beginning of all things. The beginning of existence and its ontology. Good comes from harmony with Sleuon’s will. He is the defining factor of existence. Delivers verdict of souls. WHITE

2. Solvix Solis- Lord of Shadows, Tremendous One, Starless Sky, Lord of the Nine Chasms, Grievous Lord. God of Darkness, Time, Death, the Underworld, Retribution, Torment, Righteous Cruelty, and the Nocturnal Sky. Serpent Lord. God of endings and the course of eternity, time is like an endlessly coiling serpent. The unending path of time. Executor god, delivers sentence of souls. BLACK

3. Feihelix Kanthalex- Flayed Lord, Our Destroyer the Flaming One, Brave One of Hosts, Red Lord. God of War, Violence, Fire, Destruction, Strength, Bravery, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Human Sacrifice. Destroyer and sustainer. Harbinger of change, the cycle of power, destruction as the door to rebirth. RED

DISGRACED GREATER GODS

1. Sauralachi- God of Chaos, Insolence, Envy, Immorality, and Discord. Cicada Lord. Undoing of creation, harbinger of disorder, disarray is the antithesis to divine harmony. Author of sin. Discord as the source of all suffering, sin is breaking of harmony.

2. Intoplan- God of Greed, Disease, Decay, and Scarcity. Leper god. Locust Lord. Consumption of creation, uncontrolled deterioration of what is cherished. Insidious corruption of the soul and of reality, malevolence eating away internally. Sin as a ravenous indwelling parasite.

DIVINE MEDIAL GODS

1. Kythralix- Prince of the Sun, Lord of Runes. God of Wisdom, Tradition, Ancestral Memory, Dignity, Language, and Discipline. Reason and wisdom of man, timeless and inherited from generation to generation. The beaded cord of lives which composes a bloodline. WHITE

2. Koxeon Xys- God of Harmony, Prosperity, Peace, Splendor, and Cosmic Beauty. Cosmic order deity. Embodiment of Divine Harmony, and Creation’s unfathomable beauty, pristine and sumptuous. Majesty of divine artistry and the cohesion of all things. WHITE

3. Tlaltatec- Matriarch of the Universe. Goddess of Kastatlan, Seasonal Change, Life, Rebirth, and Restoration. Primordial mother deity. Embodies the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, both cosmically (spring->summer->autumn->winter) but also earthly (mortal life cycles). Embodies the planet, both mother and dwelling of living creatures. WHITE

4. Karkaphet Amphex- God of Stability, Ingenuity, Craftsmanship, Masonry, Architecture, and Patience. Preserver and upholder of cosmic order, architect of divine harmony. WHITE

5. Kesera Byta- Goddess of Unity, Kin Love, Motherhood, Marriage, the Hearth, Compassion, and Wholesome Beauty.  WHITE

6. Xeilan Talex (Ren Phanra, Ren Zylcron, Ren Gasamed)- Goddess of the Three Moons, Time Keeping, Arcane Secrecy, and Illusions. Embodies the tiers of holy mysteries, what divine knowledge is accessible and to whom. Matron of time keeping and ritual calendars. BLACK

7. Antheopheron Talan- God of Terror, Water, the Ocean, and Hopelessness. Prawn Lord. Cosmic horror deity, tormentor of gods in the Realm of Water. WHITE

8. Pethlatex- God of Health and Healing, Medicine, Natural Philosophy, and Resourcefulness. WHITE

9. Leikalon Phys- God of Abundance,  Albasax (plant), Agriculture, Plains, Vallies, and Humility. Ox Lord. WHITE

10. Leokalix Kronon- God of Slaughter, Virility, Endurance, Vigor, Male Sexuality, Mountains, Righteous Spirits, and Sustenance. Leader of the Spirit Hosts. Male aphrodisiac deity. Stag Lord. RED

11. Faltatec Latal- God of Cleansing, Serenity, Steam, Spiritual Rebirth, and the Overcoming of Sin. Lord of Seethed Water. The struggle of the soul against sin, purifier and peace bringer. Sinlessness as a state that is worked for but cannot be achieved independently. WHITE

12. Leixei- Goddess of Romantic Love, Fertility, Sensuality, and Carnal Beauty. Female aphrodisiac deity. Rabbit Lady. WHITE

DISGRACED MEDIAL GODS

1. Athnocran Trigul- Eldest son of Sauralachi. God of Deception and Idolatry.

2. Kithtopalta- Consort of Sauralachi, Goddess of Miscarriage, Stillbirths, Birth Deformities, and Death at Childbirth.

3. Amaranko Tralon- Son of Sauralachi, God of Lust and Sexual Perversion.

4. Dalashk- Son of Sauralachi, God of Impertinence and Vulgarity.

5. Michcron- Son of Sauralachi, God of Unjust Cruelty and Hatred.

6. Alashaa Dilto- Son of Sauralachi, God of Self Destruction and Neglect.

7. Durumu- Son of Sauralachi, God of Gluttony.

8. Athterion- Son of Sauralachi, redeemed.

9. Ashalykampha- Created by Sauralachi, redeemed.

10. Konkuderim- Created by Sauralachi, redeemed. 

11. Ieron Kanla- Son of Sauralachi, redeemed. God of Forests

12. Ataliram Kasarimec- Daughter of Sauralachi, redeemed. Goddess of Grain Husking.

13. Chaltak- Eldest son of Intoplan.

14. Dulut- Son of Intoplan.

15. Aharang- Son of Intoplan.

DIVINE LESSER GODS 

1. Reamorphex Arnat- Viceroy of the Paradise. God of the Stars, Astronomy, Dreams, and Sleep. Hare Lord and Cosmic Bull. Caretaker of the righteous in the Hereafter, reigns over the eternally sinless in Tlautatan. BLACK

2. Ixokaeron Olyxotherix- God of Revelation, Visions, Rites, Prophecy, Hallucinations, and Divine Knowledge. Lord of Centipedes. Medium of visions, deliverer of revelation, and dispenser of prophecy. WHITE

3. Panthaleix- God of Kingship, Statesmen, Integrity, and Responsibility. WHITE

4. Ornophex Xentriphur- God of Justice, Fidelity, Permanence, Smoke, Lunar Eclipses, and the Persecution of Evil. Warden of Intoplan. Dog Lord. Harbinger of justice and the finality of judgment, Solvix Solis’ sword and shadow. Eternal sealing of divine retribution. BLACK

5. Kanra Azcari- God of Penitence, Lamentation, Contrition, Chastity, and Replenishment. Lord of Kanramet. Bat Lord. Wielder of Universal Guilt (a flogger of thorns with 9 tails). Arbiter of penance, embodies the guilt of sin and the peace of reconciliation. BLACK

6. Thastakanir (sometimes called Thastakan)- God of the Weather, the Wind, Hurricanes, and Storms. RED

7. Ramastaphex- God of Pain, Earned Suffering, Justice, Perdition, and Attrition. Lord over the Damned, Tormentor of Souls. BLACK

8. Ylphos Era- Goddess of Necromancy and the Passage of Souls into Death. Psychopomp deity. Medium of communion with the dead, but neither intercessor nor custodian of souls. Leads the repentant souls to Paradise. BLACK

9. Aztalehn- Goddess of the Hunt, Agility, Archery, Athletes, and Stealth. Coyote Lady. RED

10. Tlanarex Antaphelix- God of Debt Collectors and Restitution. Retriever of life, at the moment of death he hands over the soul to Xenterimex Arsacum and takes the life force back to Sleuon. WHITE

11. Lyrox Laxamon- God of Learning, Teaching, Curiosity, and Friendship. WHITE

12. Kalicam Phyrnophys- God of Loyalty, Trust, Perseverance, Exploration, Vitality, and Hope. Horse Lord. Human happiness and the excitement of life, uplifter of the soul. WHITE

13. Ynpherion Azcarat- God of Metallurgy, Smithing, and the Forge. WHITE

14. Ixkayanat Karsiphex- God of Amputation, Flaying, Surgery, Mutilation, and the Deconstruction of the Human Body. WHITE

15. Maztaleox- God of Music and Song. WHITE

16. Angar Inkurem- God of Literature, Scribes, and Poetry. WHITE

17. Xochikai- Goddess of the Sunrise and Sunset Sky. RED

18. Kasactarimec- God of Merchants, Trade, and Treaties. WHITE

19. Huetzilkal- God of Fishermen, Sea Trade, Beaches, and Coastlines. WHITE

20. Aritzamer Kantari- God of Pleasure, Leisure, Comfort, Parties, and Festivity. Bull Lord. Patron of celebration, banquets, ceremonies, and communal feasts. WHITE

21. Latra- Goddess of Rivers, Streams, Lakes, Ponds, Marshes, and Swamps. Caiman Lady. WHITE

22. Xenterimex Arsacum- God of Mud, Clay, Earthenware, and Soil. Psychopomp deity. Brings ALL the dead to Tlautatan, hands the repentant to Ylphos Era. Delivers the unrepentant to the Torments of Tlautatan. BLACK

23. Urganat Dysha- Goddess of Art and Artistry. BLACK

24. Arphau Korsakim- Goddess of the Tarmun Plant. WHITE

25. Ixuntani- Goddess of the Kem Tree. WHITE

26. Kaltraphelmec- God of Corn. WHITE

27. Alkaphex Arimax- God of Rice. WHITE

28. Caltalyx Sela- Goddess of Pottery and Gastronomy. WHITE

29. Mayatlexis- Goddess of Games and Dance. Fox Lady. RED

30. Azpapari Ixil- God of Reeds, Straw, and Paper. WHITE

31. Intokalphys- God of Provision, Desert Creatures, and Oases. WHITE

32. Kalkatec- God of Youth, Mischief, and Recklessness. RED

33. Dariphex- Goddess of Cotton and the Loom. WHITE

34. Sarimax Alanir- Goddess of Straw Weaving and Paupers. WHITE

35. Mysha Laix- God of Messengers and Haste. Winged Deer Lord. RED

DISGRACED LESSER GODS 

1. Vultur Labra- Son of Sauralachi.

2. Chichil Pan- Son of Intoplan.

3. Kalpatec Xil- Son of Intoplan. 

4. Irphem- Son of Sauralachi

5. Lekri- Son of Sauralachi

6. Sipharu- Son of Sauralachi

7. Ampiru- Son of Sauralachi

8. Genchen- Son of Intoplan

9. Imphei- Son of Intoplan

10. Ysha Tathaspheron- Created by Intoplan, redeemed, consort of Leokalix Kronon. Horse Lord/Lady (switches sexes).

11. Xampar- Son of Intoplan, redeemed.

12. Kalimpotax- Created by Sauralachi, redeemed, God of Shrubland Creatures.

13. Pocnar- Son of Intoplan, redeemed.

14. Xintepherun- Created by Sauralachi, redeemed, God of Candles.

15. Antophelim- Created by Intoplan, redeemed, God of Clay.

16. Seheriuh- Son of Intoplan, redeemed.

17. Inoxari- Daughter of Intoplan, redeemed, Goddess of Cords.

18. Kauroxerim- Son of Intoplan, redeemed, God of Soot and Ash.

19. Gargaphil- Son of Intoplan

20. Menkau- Son of Intoplan

21. Venhau- Son of Intoplan

22. Urgek- Son of Intoplan

23. Garilcan- Son of Intoplan

To see the genealogy and the relations of all the 50 Divine gods, visit the file called Genealogy of the Gods: 

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GOD DETAILS

Gods can mate to beget new gods or they can independantly create gods with no attachment to them. These created gods can be made into their consorts, adoptive children, companions/servants, or they can have no relation to them at all and can even be gifted to other gods. Gods are born fully-formed, often in extremely mythic ways, and since they don't have DNA or genes, they do not have inheritable genetic features. This means gods do not need to look like their parens or siblings. Ragardless, all gods have black hair and  the general features of the Huëy, except for Sleuon who is the most alien.

Gods can have consorts sealed in eternal covenants or they can have unofficial partners or no partners at all.

Gods are immortal and cannot kill each other nor can they disappear completely, but they can injure and maim each other.

WHITE SECT

Sleuon

Immediate family and creations of Sleuon:

• The consort of Sleuon is Tlaltatec (who he created himself), she is the mother of his sons. 

• Sleuon has 4 sons, listed in order of birth from first to last: Kythralix, Koxeon Xys, Karkaphet Amphex, and Pethlatex.

• Apart from these begotten sons, he independently created these gods which are not considered his family: Antheopheron Talan, Faltatec Latal, Ixokaeron Olyxotherix, and Tlanarex Antaphelic. He also created Xochikai as a gift for Feihelix.

Sleuon has four arms and no eyes. His lack of eyes showcases his extreme power which allows him to be all-seeing without the need for actual eyes. Sleuon likewise has no hair and no nose.

Tlaltatec

Tlaltatec has 4 arms and green skin with a long, forked tongue. Her hands are red and her palms are yellow.  She created Kesera Byta and Leixei, gifting Kesera Byta to her son Kythralix to be his consort.

Kythralix

Kythralix has 4 arms and his consort is Kesera Byta with whom he has 7 children (listed from first to last):

• Leikalon Phys

• Panthaleix

• Ynpherion Azcarat

• Angar Inkurem- he created Azpapari Ixil, the god of paper, who is his male consort 

• Lyrox Laxamon

• Caltalyx Sela

• Dariphex- the virgin goddess

Antheopheron Talan

Antheopheron Talan the Prawn Lord has four arms with human teeth along the length of all his fingers. He rules the Realm of Water where he tortures the disgraced unredeemed gods forever.

BLACK SECT

Solvix Solis

Immediate family and creations of Solvix Solis:

• The consort of Solvix Solis is Xeilan Talex (who he created himself), she is the mother of his children.

• Solvix Solis has 3 children, listed in order of birth from first to last: Reamorphex Arnat, Ylphos Era, and Urganat Dysha.

• Apart from these begotten childlren, he independently created these gods which are not considered his family:  Ornophex Xentriphur, Kanra Azcari, Ramastaphex, Xenterimex Arsacum.

Solvix Solis has 6 arms and wears the eyes of Intoplan on his crown, which he gouged out.

Xeilan Talex

Xeilan Talex has 3 avatars corresponding to the 3 moons of Kastatlan which she can simutaneously embody as 3 separate persons. This means Solvix Solis has either 1 consort or 3 consorts at any given time. 

Urganat Dysha

Urganat Dysha is actually the consort of Thastakan/Thastakanir, the son of Feihelix, and she bore his children (listed from first to last):  Maztoleox, Mayatlexis, and Kalkatec. 

Ornophex Xentriphur

Ornophex Xentriphur is the dog of Solvix Solis and he has a dog head and tail. He is the warden of Intoplan, meaning he keeps watch over his prison, and he is also the jailor of the said, ensuring they remain in Tlautatan.

RED SECT

Feihelix

Immediate family of Feihelix:

• The consort of Feihelix is Xochikai, the mother of his children, who was gifted to him by Sleuon.

• Feihelix has 3 children, listed in order of birth from first to last: Leokalix Kronon, Thastakan, and Aztalehn. 

Feihelix has 2 arms and red skin.

Leokalix Kronon

Leokalix Kronon, the Stag Lord, is the firstborn of Feihelix and the leader of the spirits. He is modeled after the karpozernox  and has antlers and a long tail with red skin mimicking the animal's coat. His consort is Ysha Tathaspheron, a horse god who was originally created by Intoplan. After defeating him during the Cosmic War, Leokalix Kronon took him as spoils of war. He eventually became Leokalix Kronon's eternally sealed consort. Ysha Tathaspheron switches sexes meaning he can be either male or female at any given time, and therefore Leokalix Kronon has both a male and female consort. Ysha is the lesser party in the sacred concubinage.

Mysha Laix

Thastakanir created Mysha Laix to be the god of messengers. He has the shape of a sylerix (winged deer) with long golden wings, short antlers, and a long tail. He is slight, generally androgynous, and at the bottom of the hierarchy of gods. He delivers messages for the gods across the realms of reality, zipping up and down the Axis Mundi. He carries an animal horn which he blows to announce his arrival. 

The Realm of Water

The Realm of Water is the hell realm of eternal torment where all the disgraced, unredeemed gods are imprisoned in perpetual agony forever. It is located in Slanacrai, the Realm of the Gods and realm of eternal sunlight and consists of 15 stacked layers. The entire place is an ocean with a surface so serene that the water looks like a sheet of glass. It is crystalline and bright blue with a sky of perpetual sunlight above it. This top layer is inhabited by the frog, crocodile, and crane spirits and is a place of leisure for the gods who cruise upon it on their monumental rafts and floating palaces. Just beneath the surface lie the layers of torment with increasingly severe punishments and increasingly damned prisoners. The bottom layers have no light and are suspended in perpetual darkness. They are home to the most punished and most unredeemable gods who are tortured day in and day out by gruesome torture imparted by prawn, crab, eel, octopus, salamander, snail, lobster, leech, and sand-devil (bristle worm) spirits. Among the most tortrured are Athnocran Trigul and Kithtopalta, the firstborn son and consort of Sauralachi respectively.

THEOLOGY

SOTERIOLOGY

Ixenthacronism states that everyone is under the Law of Sleuon, which they must follow to achieve reconciliation. The Law is universal and inescapable, and the purpose of reconciliation with divine harmony is to regain in Tlautatan (the Underworld) the sinlessness and immortality lost in the Great Vulgarity. Failure to fulfill the law means eternal dissonance with divine harmony, resulting in a permanent and complete state of sin in Tlautatan characterized by a separation from divinity and inconsolable agony. When the Law is broken, atonement is achieved through penance, usually in the form of either self-denial or self-harm. 

The universal Law of Sleuon is encompassed in the 50 Commandments of Sleuon. The 50 Commandments apply to all humans, and it is the standard to which all humans are judged upon death. The burden of the Law is carried only until death (when followed correctly), after which the soul is no longer capable of sinning against it, and thus is free of slavery forever.

Even though the Gentiles have to follow the 50 Commandments, there are 5 extra laws that only apply to the Ixokai. These are the 5 Statutes of the Anointed, and to become Ixokai you must take up these additional burdens. 

Sinlessness is impossible to obtain in life and can only be achieved in Tlautatan. Every person has the responsibility to atone for their sins through penance, but even then, the Archpriest of the Black Sect atones for all overlooked, forgotten, and neglected sins during the 20 days of Kanramet. Furthermore, Sleuon’s mercy covers great portions of sin during the posthumous trial of the soul, so it is not necessary for every sin to be meticulously atoned for. 

However, only those who are part of the faith community can enter the Paradise of Tlautatan, since redemption is only possible with Sleuon, whose call to faith is the foremost of the 50 commandments. Martyrdom procures instantaneous salvation.

MORALITY

Ixenthacronism practices ABSOLUTE SOBRIETY, meaning alcohol, recreational drugs, tobacco, and other intoxicants are absolutely prohibited.  In fact, Ixenthacronism has extinguished all brewing traditions everywhere it has spread, with the continent of Antelor being no exception. The brewing of alcohol in Antelic cultures is a culturally extinct practice now entirely forgotten. The only time people can see alcohol and cigarettes in person is when they travel outside the White Arch or the broader Ixenthacron world.

For this reason, the Ixokai Maxotlan (and all other Ixenthacron theocracies) enforces a society of 100% sobriety in accordance with Ixenthacron jurisprudence.

The moral foundation of Ixenthacronism is the Law of Sleuon which is manifested in the 50 Commandments of Sleuon.  This applies to all people. Apart from the 50 Commandments, there are 5 extra laws that apply only to the Ixokai as part of their personal national covenant with Sleuon: the 5 Statutes of the Anointed.

THE 50 COMMANDMENTS OF SLEUON

Binding for all humanity (Ixokai and Gentiles alike).

Of The Eternal Covenant:

1. Thou shalt not worship any god foreign to the fifty which I have revealed unto thee as holy. Whosoever worships a false god shall be cut off from his people.

2. Thou shalt not worship any lesser divine or mortal being as thou wouldst worship a god. Neither shalt thou hallow any created thing save it be made holy through a god.

3. Thou shalt not introduce unto the Host of Gods I have given unto thee any strange idol or heathen precept. Neither shalt thou adopt heathen ordinances, nor take unto thyself their beliefs.

4. Thou shalt not destroy nor deprive of sanctity that which by My word is holy. Neither shalt thou take the names of My godly host in vain.

5. Thou shalt not erect idols of heathen gods, whether for thine own worship or for the worship of others. Neither shalt thou raise high places for the dwelling and the worship of lesser divine or mortal beings.

6. Thou shalt not make of My dwelling a house of abominations, neither shalt thou make of My Host’s dwellings houses of sin. 

7. No man shall sanctify himself, but only by the authority of My godly host may he be made holy.

8. Let every man and every woman born in thy midst live three sets of five years. And on the day that one hath lived the fifteen years since the day of his birth, let him partake of the Rite of Reeds; giving at the vestibule of the Temple a burnt offering of fifty reeds. Then shall he live yet three years more, and afterward shall he partake of the Rite of Endowment; taking unto himself his temple garments and a garland of fifty white stones, to then go before Mine image, and fall upon his face. This shall be the first prostration. This shalt thou do unto every man and every woman born in thy midst, that the World may know thou dost uphold My Covenant.

9. In the middle day of each month, and on the last day of each month, shalt thou and thy house congregate together at My Temple. Every man, and every woman, must bear his temple garments for the convocation. At the convocation shalt thou fall upon thy face and offer incense of kem resin unto Me. And every one of My temples shall have a Hall of Convocation, South of the Room of Communion wherein Mine image dwells. 

10. Thou shalt neither increase in number nor decrease in number the statutes which I have given unto thee. Neither shalt thou corrupt the undefiled truth of My word; for he that corrupteth it hath but a fearful looking for of judgment.

Of Ritual Law:

11. Render a sacrifice of human flesh and blood unto the Lord Feihelix on the first day of each month; that the World may be sustained. The morsel of flesh shall be a man, even a man most impure. No child, neither any woman, shall taste of death upon the stone of sacrifice. And the morsel of flesh shalt thou make clean and holy; yea, with thorns and with fire shalt thou torment his flesh. This shalt thou do ere thou renderest the flesh unto the Flaming One.

12. Keep holy the four feasts of the Sun, according to the four stations of it. These are: the Day of Revival, the Day of the Sun, the Day of Abundance, and the Day of the Serpent.

13. Render as a sacrifice a great and fattened ox unto the Lord Leikalon Phys on the Day of Abundance; when the Sun is at its third station, and the leaves are bright as flames. Render also sacrifices of deer, of kaprozernox (six-legged deer), of serpents, of turkeys, of quails, of owls, and of rabbits unto such gods as demand it. Apart from these shall no animal be offered up as sacrifice.

14. Let every male that hath received the Rite of Endowment keep holy and endure the twenty days of Kanramet; starting on the new moon of Gasamed of the thirteenth month of thy calendar. For twenty days he shall fast, even a fast from flesh, from fish, from milk, from salt, from the fruit of the pepper plant, from the fruit of the black pepper vine, from the fruit of the tree and the fruit of the herb, from strange spices, from tarmun spice, and from honey. He shall also deny his flesh; he shall not lie the lyings of a woman, neither shall he cause issue to go forth from himself. He shall not dance, nor shall he sing; he shall take no delight in music, nor in the sound of singing. These statutes he shall endure for twenty days, lest he incur My wrath and bear his penance.

15. Thou shalt not seek divination.

16. Worship not the dead, neither pray unto them, nor seek intercession on their behalf; for their fate is My will alone.

17. Thou shalt not poison thyself with wine, herbs of divination, perfumes of putrid smoke, nor with any corrupter of the faculties of thy mind and destroyer of thy flesh.

18. Thou shalt not eat the flesh of Man.

19. Before thou prostrate thyself before Us, thou shalt wash thy body with water that hath been seethed. Thou shalt wash thy countenance and thy neck; thou shalt wash thy hands up to the elbow and thou shalt wash thy feet up to the knee. Wash thyself only with water that hath been seethed. Thou shalt use seethed water for all thy rites, all thy washings, and all thine offerings. Thou shalt not eat food cooked in water save it hath been seethed.

20. Offer up perfumes of incense when thou pleadest unto Us, even perfumes of resin and perfumes of sandal wood. May incense burn day and night in Our temples.

Of Man:

21. Man shall not be greater than his brother by merit of his flesh alone.

22. Thou shalt not usurp dominion over men, save it be rightfully thine.

23. Thou shalt not kill nor afflict the innocent.

24. Man shall not lie with beastkind.

25. Thou shalt not deprive of liberty him that is without just fault. 

26. Thou shalt not deceive.

27. Thou shalt not covet that which belongeth not unto thee.

28. Thou shalt not steal.

29. Tend the land whereon thou walkest, the sea whereon thou sailest, and the sky beneath which thou livest: for they comprise My cosmic bride and thy divine mother.

30. Render loyalty unto thy nation, save it rise in rebellion against My will.

Of Kin and Wedlock:

31. Thou shalt not wed until the Rite of Endowment.

32. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Upon the adulterer shalt thou inscribe a mark, into his flesh shalt thou inscribe it. One mark on each palm.

33. Thou shalt keep holy the marriage bed. If thou seekest a covenant union, thou shalt not lie with women nor shalt thou lie with men ere the covenant union is consecrated, lest thou bear thy penance. But if thou seekest not a covenant union, this statute shall pass over thee.

34. Thou shalt not work evil against thy spouse.

35. Thou shalt not take unto thyself more than one bride nor shalt thou take thy sister to be thy bride.

36. Thou shalt not take unto thyself a heathen bride, save she be brought under My covenant.

37. Thou shalt do no evil unto thy children, neither shalt thou destroy them.

38. Thou shalt not lie with a eunuch, neither shalt thou make any man into a eunuch for thine enjoyment.

39. Honor thy father and thy mother. Honor also thine ancestral host.

40. Thou shalt not profane the graves of thy dead, nor of the heathen's dead.

Of Law and Penance:

41. Thou shalt not kill, nor smite, nor destroy, nor vanquish save by Mine authority.

42. Waste not thy life in indolence.

43. Thou shalt not be ruled by wrath unjust.

44. Thou shalt not suffer thyself to be devoured by lust.

45. Acknowledge thy works, whether righteous or wicked, and bear thy judgment in truth. Whosoever transgresseth against My commandments shall bear his penance.

46. He that bringeth forth a child outside the covenant of wedlock, that man shalt thou circumcise. Thou shalt clip also the inner lips (labia minora) of the mother.

47. Put to death he that defileth the flesh of children and corrupteth the mindes of them. Likewise, may he that defileth the flesh of his neighbor be castrated and put to death. 

48. Make known thy testament of faith, that Man may see to whom thy soul doth belong.

49. Thou shalt not make of thy body a ruin, nor of thy mind an abomination.

50. Thou shalt not forsake My Law for any matter’s sake.

5 Statutes of the Anointed (only for the Ixokai):

• At the Rite of Endowment, thou shalt inscribe upon the countenance of thy brother, and upon the countenance of thy sister, the Mark of the Covenant after his kind. One mark beneath each eye; that the nations may know that I have set thee apart.

• Thou shalt not take unto thyself a Gentile bride, save she be inscribed with the Mark of the Covenant. Inscribe the Mark of the Covenant upon the flesh of whomsoever is to become one with the Anointed, even the Ixokai. Every man and every woman who is of the Anointed shall bear the Mark. If thou hast a slave, and the slave is to become Ixokai, thou shalt inscribe upon him, or upon her, the Mark of the Covenant, each after his kind.

• Thou shalt make for thy priests garments of skins, even the skins of men. Whosoever destroyeth the innocent, thou shalt flay that man; and out of his skin shalt thou make the garments. Render them unto thy priests, so that they may wear upon their countenances and upon their bodies the skins when they come before Me; yea, the skins of those that defile the Creation. On every holy day shall thy priests wear the garments of skins. Therefore, when thou makest priests of all nations, the world shall know thy priests from the priests of the Gentiles.  

• No man, neither any woman, shall shave the hair of his head bare, save it be by reason of natural baldness or disease. Thou mayest shave the hair of thy slave, and the hair of thine enemy; but no Ixokai shall make bald his head, that the bare flesh thereof be uncovered.

• Thrice shalt thou pray every day; once at sunrise, once at noon, and once at the setting of the Sun. Thou mayest pray as oft as thou wilt, but thou shalt offer those three prayers every day. And thou shalt prostrate thyself before Me once every week, even every week wherein thou art able to move. 

COVENANT UNIONS

Ixenthacronism recognizes two covenant unions: holy matrimony and sacred concubinage. Covenant unions entail the eternal binding of two souls, meaning they are valid in Tlautatan (the Underworld) and cannot be undone with death. Once you are sealed to someone, you become an eternal pair. It is for this reason that widows and widowers cannot remarry: they are still sealed to their dead consorts in Tlautatan, and will continue to be sealed after they too die and join them therein.

Covenant unions are under the domain of Kesera Byta, the goddess of unity and marriage, and their sealing ceremonies take place at her temples. More specifically, they take place in marriage courts, which are temple courtyards with two idols: one of Kesera Byta, and the other of her husband Kythralix, the god of wisdom.  The priest that officiates the ceremony is actually a priest of Kythralix however, and not a priestess of Kesera Byta. 

The covenant union is sealed with a unity pendant (sometimes called a marriage pendant) which is a carved amulet with an extremely long ribbon. The two people are placed standing face to face while the priest places the ribbon over both their necks so that the amulet hangs suspended right in between them.  This unity pendant is then handed to the couple in a case, and they keep it their whole lives. This is the way all Ixenthacron sealing ceremonies are and have been conducted on a basic ritual level, everything else from the celebrations preceding or proceeding it, the time of day, the time of the year, or the details of bridewealth depend on the culture, time period, and individual preferences of the couple. 

These Ixenthacron covenant unions are the only legal forms of official unions in Ixenthacron countries, there is no secular marriage or civic unions. 

In order to enter into a covenant union, both people must be virgins at the time of engagement. If one party is not, that person must suffer penance before the ceremony. If both parties were virgins upon engagement but suddenly lost their virginity between the engagement and the ceremony, then only the man will have to suffer penance for it was his responsibility that both should conserve it.  Apart from covenant unions, virginity has no importance in everyday life nor any moral worth.  However, if one conserves their virginity until death without ever having been sealed to anyone, that person can still enter a covenant union once in Tlautatan.  If on the contrary, the person did not preserve their virginity and did not get sealed to anyone, that person will never be able to join a covenant union in Tlautatan.

Covenant unions are indissoluble by the couple themselves; only the Church has the authority to dissolve them. There is no divorce but rather there are instances where the church will forcefully dissolve a union (regardless of the couple's wishes) in accordance with Ixenthacron jurisprudence. These are;

• In the event of adultery. The adulterous party has the mark of the adulterer tattooed on both palms and is prohibited from ever joining a covenant union ever again. Adultery is a class E felony in the modern day.

• In the event of abuse.

Both holy matrimony and sacred concubinage have the same inheritance rights and legal validity for taxes and business ventures.

CLERGY

The Ixenthacron Church has an organized and extensive clerical hierarchy, along with territorial and sectarian divisions. The Church is the governing body of the Earthly Dominion of Sleuon, that is, the faith body of Ixenthacronism. The Earthly Dominion is the worldwide church, which is then divided into Pillars (large jurisdictions covering either entire countries, parts of a country, or multiple countries in one depending on their size and population). The Pillars are divided into Stakes, and Stakes are divided into Assemblages (county level jurisdictions) which are further divided into individual Convocations. The High Prophet is the head of the whole Church, the sovereign of the Earthly Dominion. The Archpriests of the Pillars reign over the Pillars and the Chief Elders reign over Stakes. Elder Priests preside over Assemblages and Priests head Convocations.

The headquarters of the whole Church is the Grand Temple of the Triumvirate in Inhentys Lapydah. The headquarters of each Pillar is the Grand Temple of the Triumvirate found within them. The headquarters of each Stake is one of the Grand Temples of Sleuon found within them. The headquarters of each Assemblage is the Grand Temple of Sleuon corresponding to them. The headquarters of each Convocation is the Temple of Sleuon that corresponds to them.

The Church is also divided into Sects (White, Black, and Red) according to the Triumvirate (3 Greater Gods: Sleuon, Solvix Solis, and Feihelix) and these are further divided into Temples of each Triumvirate member’s subordinate gods. The High Prophet is head over the Church, and the Archpriests of the Sects (also Temples of the Triumvirate members themselves) answer to him. Beneath them are the High Priests of every Temple of Medial and Lesser Gods according to their Sect. Beneath each sectarian Archpriest and High Priest are the clerical hierarchies of the Temples. 

The church structure in use today is the Neoclassical Church Structure which replaced the Classical Church Structure when Ixenthacronism spread internationally. The Classical Church Structure was created by Emperor Xelphetmon Zuzurcanus in 295 AFT.

This is the full hierarchy of the Ixenthacron clergy according to the Neoclassical Church Structure (the one in use today, preceded by the Classical Church Structure):

1. High Prophet: Head of the Church, Sovereign of the Earthly Dominion. Represents the Church and is the only person who can consistently see into the future. Itinerant prophets might pop up randomly, but the High Prophet is a fixed office precisely so prophetic revelation can be dispensed constantly. He appoints sectarian Archpriests and Archpriests of the Pillars. Constantly in communication with the governments of Ixenthacron nations. Lives in Inhentys Lapydah.

2. Archpriests of the Sects: Heads of each Sect and the Temples of each Triumvirate member. Appoint High Priests. Live in the Ixokai Maxotlan.

3. Archpriests of the Pillars: Heads of the Pillars, international jurisdictions. Oversee the ranks below them in the territories they preside over. Answer to the Archpriests of the Sects regarding sectarian issues and answer to the High Prophet regarding administrative issues. All Archpriests of the Pillars are in communication with Inhentys Lapydah.

4. High Priests: Heads of the Temples of all Medial and Lesser Gods according to their Sects. Appoint Chief Elders.

5. Chief Elders: Oversee Grand Temples run by Elder Priests and reign over Stakes. Appoint Elder Priests and Oracles.

6. Oracles: Receive visions, prophecy, and instruction from the gods and author the Codices of Revelation which are then canonized.

7. Elder Priests: Minister Grand Temples under Chief Elders and reign over Assemblages. Appoint Priests.

8. Priests: Oversee individual temples and head Convocations. They perform rites (nursing rites, the Endowment, holy matrimony, sacred concubinage, funerary rites, etc.) and offer sacrifices. Appoint Deacons and Altar Servants.

9. Deacons: Minister individual temples under the Priest and prepare rituals. Oversee individual shrines. Appoint Altar Servants if the shrine is not part of a larger temple complex.

10. Monks/Scribes: Dedicate themselves to studying the sacred mysteries and copying manuscripts. Live, serve, study, and commune in monasteries dedicated to specific gods.

11. Altar Servants: Tend to the altar of the shrine; cleaning away the ashes, washing ritual artifacts, and gathering materials for blessings and rituals.

12. The Laity: The common faithful.

"Temple" here refers to the institutional cult of each god. The "Temple of ____" refers to all the clergy exclusively part of that god's cult. Every god has a temple, including Sleuon and the Triumvirate members. The White Sect ecompasses Sleuon and all his gods, but the Temple of Sleuon is specifically the clerical cult of Sleuon alone. The same with Solvix Solis and Feihelix. The Archpriests of the Sects are simultaneously the leaders of each Sect as a whole AND the High Priests of the temples of Sleuon, Solvix Solis, and Feihelix respectively.

What the clergy would look like to a layman: The temple of Sleuon I go to for bimonthly convocation is overseen by a priest and attended to by deacons. I live in Kaltepactli (town), my convocation is under the jurisdiction of the assemblage headed by the Elder Priest of the Grand Temple of Sleuon at Arimphelix (city). My assemblage is part of the Ipoxotl Stake, the stake of my state, headquartered in Ipoxaton where the Grand Temple of Sleuon is under the Chief Elder of the White Sect of my state. My stake is part of the Ixo Huëy Pillar (jurisdiction encompassing the Great Ixo Huëy Plain in the center of Antelor, home to around 2 billion people. The Ixokai Maxotlan is divided into 5 pillars because of its size) which is under the jurisdiction of the Archpriest at the Grand Temple of the Triumvirate in Inhentys Lapydah (because of the pillar’s location). My pillar is part of the Earthly Dominion under jurisdiction of the High Prophet which oversees the whole of it from the Grand Temple of the Triumvirate in Inhentys Lapydah.

Primordial Church as prescribed by the 50 Commandments:

1. High Prophet

2. High Priests of the Sects

3. High Priests of the Temples

4. Oracles

5. Priests

Preclassical Church Structure as established by Emperor Thoros Kalkamax:

1. High Prophet

2. High Priests of the Sects

3. High Priests of the Temples

4. Elder Priests

5. Oracles

6. Priests

7. Deacons

8. The Laity

Classical Church Structure as established by Emperor Xelphetmon Zuzurcanus:

1. High Prophet

2. Archpriests of the Sects

3. High Priests of the Temples

4. Elder Priests

5. Oracles

6. Priests

7. Deacons

8. Monks/scribes

9. The Laity

SACRIFICE

Sacrifice is one of the most important features of Ixenthacronism and it serves many functions depending on the offering and the recipient. Ixenthacronism regularly sacrifices people and animals for different reasons and to different gods.

Feihelan Human Sacrifice

Sustentative Feihelan human sacrifice is prophylactic and mandatory, this is the sacrifice that maintains the world and keeps Sauralachi contained. It is done solely for this purpose, it has no atoning or appeasing value. Feihelix does not demand sacrifice for himself as devotion, but rather requires it as part of cosmic maintenance. 

It takes place every month on the first of the month at sunrise in Inhentys Lapydah.  A set of offerings is pulled from a pool of eligible criminals and then tortured for 2 days, culminating in the branding of the forehead and the back with a Tlanaphys (the sigil of Feihelix), the installation of the ear thorns, and finally the installation of the jaw ring. The offerings are then taken up naked to the Grand Temple of the Triumvirate and thrown off the sacrificial terrace so that they fall on the sacrificial stone at the bottom.  After the offering dies, the body is flayed, and the flesh and organs are pulled off and incinerated. The bones are turned into ritual artifacts.  Those that remain largely intact are the most valuable, while the fragments (which are usually the minority) are turned into jewelry, ornaments, decorative elements, and needles (for traditional sowing). 

The skin is prepared and sewn into priestly garments. Since the bodies of sacrificial offerings are usually extremely damaged from torture and the fall itself, the amount and quality of recoverable skin is quite low, so these cuts of human leather are usually reserved for symbolic and smaller articles of clothing.

The majority of priestly garments actually come from the pelts of criminals who were either flayed alive or flayed after being conventionally executed, which allows for large, usable cuts of human leather. The Ixokai call human leather "yellow pelt".

Sacrificial offerings are denied burial rites and usually end up in the Torments of Tlautatan.

Martial Feihelan sacrifice also exists, and it is mandatory before the beginning of a war and again at the end. Before an Ixenthacron nation goes to war, they must sacrifice 100 men to Feihelix. After the war, they must sacrifice another 100 men in the event of victory, or 200 in the event of defeat. Martial sacrifices can also be repeated to commemorate a victory or past war, as during the modern-day Victory Day where the Ixokai celebrate their victory over Athnogaula in the War of the Hemisphere by sacrificing 100 men (and sometimes even more).

The number of offerings sacrificed per month varies. The threshold for how much blood Feihelix needs to contain Sauralachi deteriorates over time.  During the Cosmic War, Sauralachi killed every human alive (2 billion people at the time) and Feihelix ate their corpses, so the blood of all those people gave him sufficient energy to not need any more blood for thousands of years. But after the blood of primordial man began wearing off, he once more required sacrifice. In order to keep the number of monthly deaths low, there needs to be a mass sacrifice (millions of people) every so often, for Feihelix to ride that wave until it dwindles again.  Performing a mass sacrifice of that scale would be practically impossible, so wars themselves can be dedicated as mass sacrifices or special conditions can be arranged within a  country. 

The current number of monthly deaths required is 15, but it will eventually rise progressively until another mass sacrifice happens. The signs that a mass sacrifice is imminent are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, since Sauralachi is literally imprisoned within the core of the planet Kastatlan, and thus his flailing in agony causes tectonic disasters. The stronger an effect his flailings have on the planet, the weaker Feihelix is.

The number of deaths required to stop human sacrifice forever and contain Sauralachi once and for all is 5 billion deaths. The last mass sacrifice was the Purge of the Worthless, taking place in 5476 AFT ( 49 years ago) with 20 million deaths, and it is the reason the  monthly quota is so low today.

METHODS

You already read the elaborate preparations and methodology for the monthly Feihelan sacrifices, but mass sacrifice can circumvent those customs. During mass sacrifice, the offerings are less selectively chosen and most of them would not normally qualify for monthly Feihelan sacrifice and most are not truly deserving of torture or damnation. So when the time comes for mass sacrifice, the High Priest of Feihelix performs a ritual dedicating every death during the sacrificial period as a sustentative sacrifice. Feihelix accepts and all the offerings are thus killed in whichever way is most convenient. Offerings during mass sacrifice often do not undergo the extensive and brutal ritual preparations nor are they branded or pierced with the usual signs as normal monthly offerings are. The offerings slaughtered during the sacrificial period will be counted as valid sacrifices no matter how they are killed. During the Purge of the Worthless, the most recent mass sacrifice, all Livestock of the State (so basically all those with Class E+ felony convictions) were killed just as brutally as the usual monthly sacrifices if not more. The vast majority of inmates were simply decapitated, however. And, furthermore, most of them did receive burial rites since the damnation of their souls wasn't guaranteed the way it is for the monthly offerings, and their original convictions didn't actually merit death under normal circumstances. Every new person convicted of a crime placing them in either the General Inmate or Livestock of the State Category was killed. in effect, the punishment for Class C+ felonies became instant death for 5 years.

Devotional and martial human sacrifices can take practically any form, but the default is dismemberment. Feihelan devotional sacrifices (like those during the Victory Day celebrations) do have brutal preparations, but the majority of the effort goes into the execution itself. The offerings are taken up to the same sacrificial terrace used for monthly sacrifice, except this time they are actually laid on the sacrificial stone and dismembered progressively: first the feet, then the hands, then the legs, then the arms at the shoulders, and finally the head. It is done in this order so that the offerings feel as much of it as possible. Then, the body parts are thrown off the terrace and onto the sacrificial stone down below (So there are two stones, one on top of the terrace and a larger one at the bottom).

Sleonic Human Sacrifice

Sleuonic human sacrifice is likewise devotional and it can be either scheduled or spontaneous.  Sleuonic sacrifices are part of the summer solstice (called the Day of the Sun) celebrations during the feast of Kairamex. Two people, encased in wooden effigies of Sauralachi and Intoplan, are immolated publicly on the Day of the Sun. 

ANIMAL SACRIFICE

Ixenthacron animal sacrifice is extremely prolific and popular. Different gods receive different offerings for different reasons, but none of the animal sacrifices are for cosmic maintenance or sin atonement. 

The animals typically sacrificed across all customs are: cattle, deer, kaprozernox (six-legged deer), quails, turkeys, rabbits, bison, snakes, and owls. 

These were the animals that were available in the Ixo Huëy Plain. As Ixenthacronism spread across Antelor, some regions, like the North, which did not have some of these animals, substituted them with their local fauna. Sheep were one of the main substitutes for kaprozernox (which are native to the Antelic Center) and cattle. 

Thousands of oxen worldwide are sacrificed for the Day of Abundance (autumnal equinox) during the Harvest Festival.

Sacrificial animals are usually eaten by either the community or the priests. On certain occassions however, they are burned, buried, or used for other thinsg depending on the individual ritual itself.

Animals are not subjected to unecessary pain and their deaths are carried out in the quickest manner possible.

COSMOLOGY

The Universe has four realms: Slanacrai (the Heavenly Realm), Tlautatan (the Underworld), Kanthacran (martial realm enveloping the core), Xenopran (the mortal world, material universe, that aforementioned core enveloped by Kanthacran). Kastatlan is in Xenopran, the gods live in Slanacrai, and Tlautatan is for the dead (both the wicked and the repentant). 

Slanacrai was created by Sleuon, it is a realm of eternal daylight.

Tlautatan was created by Solvix Solis, it is a realm of eternal night.

Kanthacran was originally called Acronat and it was actually created by Sauralachi. It was during the Cosmic War that Feihelix conquered it for himself, renaming it Kanthacran.

The Universe has the shape of a sphere with a core enveloped by two nested shells. The outer shell is divided horizontally into halves, making two concave domes. The upper dome is Slanacrai and the lower dome is Tlautatan. The second shell, which sits inside of the outer one, is Kanthacran. The core of the sphere, which is inside of the second shell, is Xenopran.  And, in the center of Xenopran, is the star Sleuronos, the center of the universe.  The Axis Mundi then pierces the whole thing vertically. The bottom of the Axis Mundi is at Solvix Solis' palace in Tlautatan, it then shoots up, piercing Feihelix's palace in Kanthacran, then up into Xenopran and piercing Sleuronos, and finally the top is at Sleuon´s palace in Slanacrai.

Each one of these four realms is internally infinite and shapeless, but metaphysically: Slanacrai is the shape of a dome, Tlautatan is the shape of a bowl/upsidedown dome, Kanthacran is the shape of a hollow sphere, and Xenopran is the shape of a sphere.

The same way the internet is limitless and shapeless internally, but a computer is the shape of a rectangle.

PRIMORDIAL HISTORY

THE SECTS

Sectarian divisions are extremely porous and nominal. All the Sects do is divide gods according to their genealogies and domains, which then reflects in which areas of life fall within each Sect. Sectarian adherence is liberal and open. The Sects are intertwined, complementary, overlapping, and codependent, they do not compete nor do they act independently nor can they be separated. 

A person adheres to a Sect depending on their profession, goals, and interests. A police officer adheres to the Black Sect because law enforcement falls within it, but if he is into sports and bodybuilding, those things fall under the Red Sect so he adheres to it as well. Every person adheres to the White Sect by default by mere virtue of being a human being since ancestry, gastronomy, agriculture, family, language, sexuality, love, etc all fall under the White Sect. Armacron, for example, is a judge, so his profession falls within the White Sect. However, he is extremely invested in punitive justice, race, torture, and death which fall within the Black Sect. You cannot count Sect adherents because they overlap. There is no initiation into any Sect, no threshold, no ceremony. It’s just like switching gears in a car: instantaneous and unceremonous. The Rite of Endowment is the same for all Ixenthacron people, and it actually falls under the White Sect.

When it is said that someone is specifically a “____ Sect adherent” it means that that is the Sect they most identify with by choice, either because they work in a profession under that Sect or they simply have interest in it, and not because they carry around a membership card of that Sect. Sectarian mentorship is a formative service oftentimes offered by the clergy of each Sect, and they teach different things depending on the Sect and even depending on the god. So there is general sectarian mentorship (focusing on the entire Sect) and specific sectarian mentorship (focusing on specific gods within the Sect). 

Sects are inseparable, and their divisions are invisible in everyday life. Sure, you see the priests dressed differently, different symbols on different government buildings and establishments, and different gods in each, but you cross their boundaries unknowingly and unceremoniously every single day. 

Sect divisions only really matter for ritual and governance.  A White Sect priest cannot perform the monthly human sacrifice to Feihelix, only a Red Sect priest can. Monthly convocation can only take place at a temple of Sleuon (White), it can’t be hosted in any other temple. The uniforms of law enforcement, judges, and prison workers can only have the Karnaphys, sigil of the Black Sect, on them because that’s what those professions fall under. Warships have the Red Sect sigil painted on them because war falls under the Red Sect. A Red Sect priest can’t embalm a corpse, because funerary rites belong to the Black Sect. The Ministry of the Treasury has the White Sect sigil on it, because money belongs to the White Sect.

When it comes to gods, one can imagine the Sects as royal houses. The White Sect is Sleuon’s family and descendants, the Black Sect is Solvix Solis’s, and the Red Sect Feihelix’s. Indeed, gods are arranged by Sect according to their genealogy. Some gods have no parents because they were simply created by another god the way a sculptor might make a man out of clay. In those cases, the gods may belong to the god that created them or they may belong to the god they were gifted to. Sleuon, for example, created the goddess Xochikai which he then gifted to Feihelix to be his consort. So now Xochikai is Red-Sect despite being created by Sleuon.

TLAUTATAN- THE UNDERWORLD

The Ixenthacron underworld is Tlautatan, the Realm of the Dead and universal destination. Ruled by Solvix Solis and located at the bottom of the axis mundi, it is a disk, floating in an infinite void, divided into three parts: Paradise (eastern half), Torments (western half), and Solvatlan (center). The 3 parts of Tlautatan are divided by an indestructible, black, stone wall 1000 meters tall and 30 meters thick (which also encircles the whole disk. The disk has a diameter of 50,500 kilometers.

Souls are retrieved from Xenopran (mortal realm) by Xenterimex Arsacum, the god of mud and clay, and his hare spirits. They are delivered by him into the mouth of Tlautatan. If a soul escapes his grasp before then, it becomes a ghost and must hide in Xenopran. If the soul is damned, the hares will chase after it until they catch or lose it. If it is saved, then they won’t chase it. Souls don’t know their status until they get to Tlautatan so either one could think of escaping.

Once in Tlautatan, souls find themselves in a tunnel lined with engravings depicting their lives. The saved walk through the tunnel and are greeted by the Gate of Paradise. For the damned, the floor moves them forward if they stop walking until they meet the Gate of Torments. As soon as they leave the tunnel they step onto the vestibule where they wait to enter the gates. The vestibules are terraces just above the wall, across from each other on their respective sides. So, those in the vestibule of Torments can look across into Paradise, and so too can those in the vestibule of Paradise look across into the Torments. The vestibule of Torments is always more crowded. At the Gate of Paradise, the repentant are greeted by Ylphos Era, daughter of Solvix Solis and goddess of necromancy (only souls in Paradise can be contacted by necromancers), who gives them the reward Solvix Solis determined according to Sleuon’s judgment. The unrepentant are greeted once more by Xenterimex Arsacum at the Gate of Torments, who gives them the sentence Solvix Solis determined according to Sleuon’s judgment. 

Paradise is divided into 9 principalities with no walls: Humility, Generosity, Orthodoxy, Reverence, Patience, Gratitude, Temperance, Honesty, and Chastity. It is ruled by Reamorphex Arnat, firstborn of Solvix Solis and the god of stars, dreams, and astronomy. Each of the principalities is ruled by the Nine Princes of Paradise. Souls are delegated to the principality most fitting for them, but they are not confined to it. All of Tlautatan is a realm of eternal night, but only in Paradise are there stars. These stars dim or brighten to mimic the daylight cycle for the comfort of the souls there. The unborn dead appear in Paradise as immortal animals, having never had a human experience.

The Torments of Tlautatan are divided into 9 chasms with tall barriers: Pride, Greed, Heresy, Sacrilege, Wrath, Envy, Gluttony, Deception, and Lust. Torments is ruled by Ramastaphex the Lord of Thorns, god of pain and justice. The chasms are overseen by the Nine Tyrants of Torment. Torments is eternally dark, with only some light seeping over from Paradise right at the wall. When you stand on the Paradise side of the wall, you can faintly hear the screams from the other side. Sentences in Torments take the form of 900-year cycles of torture. Solvix Solix uses Sleuon’s judgment to determine how much time a person will spend in each chasm. So, it could look like: 100 years Pride, 500 years Greed, 50 years Heresy, 50 years Sacrilege, 10 years Wrath, 50 years Envy, 100 years Deception, and then 40 years Lust before repeating. If a damned soul makes it over the wall, it will burst into flames in Paradise, after which the Avernals will retrieve it and bring it back to its place.

Avernals are the native beings of Tlautatan. There are 9 orders of them, and they fulfill roles both in Paradise in Torments (like carrying out sentences). They live in Solvatlan where their 9 hives are found. At the very center of Solvatlan is the Palace of Solvix Solis (3 km tall). To the south (Tlautatan is at the bottom of the universe so south is up and north is down) of it is the Portal of Lights which Solvix Solis uses to get directly to Slanacrai (the Realm of the Gods where Sleuon’s throne is). To the north of it is the Fountain of Resurrection from which the Avernals resurrect from when they are killed. Ornophex Xentriphur, the Dog Lord, is the god of smoke, lunar eclipses, and the persecution of evil. He is the leader of the Avernals and on every lunar eclipse he and his dog-headed Avernals travel to Xenopran to hunt and retrieve the ghosts; bringing the saved to Paradise and the damned to Torments.

A portal opened into Paradise by a necromancer is like a window: nothing can go through, but it can be seen into. A portal opened into Torments is like a one-way door: you can go through, but nothing can come back out. This latter portal was the one Aztlamon tried throwing Ankas into.

PATRIARCHS

A fundamental concept to understanding Ixokai history and eschatology are the Patriarchs of the Ixokai. These are semi divine men (often born mortal and anointed with divine power later) that serve as rulers in times of national crisis or moments of significant spiritual transformation and play an important role in Ixokai heroism. Patriarchs live for centuries and are granted many signs to aid their rule. The very first Patriarch of the Ixokai was Thoros Kalkamax. He was the first emperor of the Ixokai and received the Commission of Sleuon. There have been 5 more since his time, each spaced centuries apart. The latest Patriarch (Albacran Kypron) died in 5504 AFT (AD 2004). 

The final Patriarch is who will fulfill the Ixokai’s mission and devour the nations in full, completely undoing the social consequences of the Great Vulgarity, establishing a single world government loyal to Sleuon like that of primordial Man. No one knows who the Last Patriarch will be, nor how many Patriarchs are left until his arrival.

Patriarchs differ from conventional heroes in Ixenthacron belief in the sense that Patriarchs are always rulers while heroes typically do not have to be.

LIFE RITES

There are five main life rites in Ixenthacronism. Every Ixenthacron faithful, both Gentile and Ixokai, must go through them.

Nursing Rites

Consecration of life and thanksgiving for healthy childbirth and healthy childhood.

Three main ones: First the Waving Rite, then the Rite of Dawns, and finally the Rite of Cotton and Cords.

Waving Rite steps:

1. After the infant is born, cleaned, and wrapped; the father must take it in both hands.

2. The father must raise the infant up above his head with both hands while bowing his head. One hand supporting the legs, the other supporting the head. Dedication of the newborn’s life to Sleuon and thanksgiving for its successful delivery. Even in the case of the mother’s death, the child’s life is thanked.

3. The father must bring the infant back down to his chest and hold it with both arms and recite the birthing oration, also called the first promise. It goes like this, “Great is the One who delivered thee unto me, and blessed am I to receive thee. Under thy mother’s mantle shalt thou grow, and may my rod guide the steps of thy feet, until I return unto Him who sent thee and who sent me before thee. Holy is thy breath, and holier is thy blood. With my own life shall I keep thy life, that no evil may come unto thee, without first knowing me.” End of the ritual.

The Rite of Dawns:

1. After the infant lives for 50 days since birth, he must be taken to the priest before dawn.

2. The priest must then wash the infant in a basin of boiled water with Tarmun petals in it by dipping them in feet first.

3. The priest must then wrap the infant in a white cotton mantle.

4. The priest must then paint with his finger a white circle on the infant’s forehead, representing the Sun.

5. The priest must then take the infant outside at dawn, and the light of the Sun must be allowed to cover the infant completely from the moment it first rises until the infant’s whole body is lit up. Then the ritual ends.

The Rite of Cotton and Cords:

1. After the child has lived 5 years since birth, he must be taken to the temple. 

2. The priest must hand over a branch of unpicked cotton to the father of the child.

3. The father must then hand the branch to his child. The child must receive it with his right hand.

4. A garland of cotton balls on a strand of albasax fiber is then placed over the child’s shoulders. Cotton is the plant of domesticity, it's the textile all clothing was traditionally made from.

5. Then the child must be given a brush of albasax fiber in his left hand. Albasax fiber is a rough and common textile, traditionally used for brooms, paupers’ clothing, cleaning rags, cords, and sacks. It is tied to domestic labor and responsibility. Together the two represent proper entrance into community life, chores, and early responsibilities.

6. The parents and the priest then pray over the child, and the ritual ends.

Rite of Reeds

After living 3 sets of 5 years. Age 15 (5+5+5). “The Age of Offerings”.

Proper entrance into faith, preliminary access to the sacred mysteries. Higher education in matters of the faith and the Law accessible. Allowed to take offerings to the temple, but cannot go past the vestibule.

1. Priest takes 50 reeds in a bundle. Symbolic of the faith. 

2. Priest hands over the reeds to the father of the child.

3. Father of the child waves the bundle across the shoulders of his child.

4. Father gives the bundle to the child with both hands. Wielding of the faith, bestowing of greater understanding.

5. Child is wrapped with a shawl of cotton mesh. Shelter in the faith and the embrace of kin.

6. Child is painted with a red dot on each earlobe. Symbolic of ear piercing, which historically would happen at this step. Represents first entrance into higher society, but still at the threshold.

7. Child takes the bundle of reeds and takes them to the incense altar to burn.  First burnt offering, first proper act of devotion.

8. Child offers up a prayer before the idol of Sleuon.

9. Child bows before Sleuon and goes home. End of the ritual.

Rite of Endowment

After living 3 years since the Rite of Reeds. Age 18. “The Age of Law and Knowledge”.

Symbolic undoing of Man’s Great Vulgarity, entrance into the Anthropic Covenant with Sleuon. Reception of the Burden of the Law. Entrance into the fullness of the faith and full access to the sacred mysteries. Can enter the temple fully.

1. Go to the temple in plain clothes, symbolizing Man’s sinless state before the Great Vulgarity. Stand at the bottom of the stairs.

2. Rip/cut open own clothes and messy one’s own hair, symbolic of Man’s self desecration at the birth of sin.

3. Washing of the hands, feet, and face. Ritual ablution symbolizing the turning point from utter sin. The moment of repentance.

4. Reception of the temple garments. White cotton shawl is put on first over the torn clothes, symbolizing shelter in Sleuon’s mercy.

5. White cotton crown is put on second over the messied hair, symbolizing redemption in the covenant, the choice to follow the straight path, the choice of walking upright in the Law. For the Ixokai specifically, this is also when the Mark of the Covenant is drawn beneath each eye, representing the Ixokai’s separation from the gentiles. In antiquity it was actually tattooed.

6. A garland of 50 white stones is hung over the shoulders. The Burden of the Law. For the Ixokai this is also when they receive the Scepter of Justice, a human humerus bone which represents the burden of the Ixokai to bring all of mankind back under loyalty to Sleuon.

7. Tarmun petals (representing blessings) showered upon the endowed.

8. Walk up the staircase into the Room of Communion with the garland of stones and stop before the idol. The course of life. A life lived under the Law.

9. Offering up of resin incense and prostration before Sleuon. The rendering of one’s life at death unto Sleuon to whom it always belonged. 

10. Returning of the burden, leaving the garland of stones (and the scepter) at Sleuon’s feet. Freedom from the slavery of the Law in the eternal Paradise of Tlautatan, sinlessness regained forever. Redemption is complete. 

CALENDAR

The Ixenthacron Sacred Calendar is used by the Ixokai and the White World as their official calendar, and it is subsequently the de facto international calendar. The calendar consists of 15 months with a total of 365 days. It was 10 months with 24 days and 5 significant months with 25 days.  Every month corresponds to one of the three Greater Gods and one of the 12 Medial Gods (which together total 15). The beginning of the year was allotted to Feihelix, the end of the year was allotted to Solvix Solis, and Sleuon kept the middle of the year for himself. 

The calendar has a solar basis, with most major religious events happen around the four stations of the sun: Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, and Winter Solstice. Minor religious holidays usually take place on the full moons of Gasamed of their respective months. 

All three moons of Kastatlan are full moons on the last day of the year, day 365, every year without exception. All three moons are new moons on the summer solstice every year without exception. Thanks to each of the moon's astronomical cycles, the moon phases typically fall on the same days every year no matter what.

Apart from the 365-day sacred calendar, there are 3 separate 365-day lunar calendars corresponding to each one of the 3 moons' lunar cycles. The three are:

• The Gasamedian Lunar Calendar- corresponds to Gasamed. Has 13 lunar months with 28-29 days. Used for scheduling non-solar religious celebrations and observances with full moons being positive and new moons being negative.

• The Zylian Lunar Calendar- corresponds to Zylcron. Has 23 lunar months with 15-16 days. This is called the Ritual Calendar and is used for scheduling non-solar animal sacrifice, learning omens, receiving visions, and making offerings with full moons being good omens and new moons being bad omens.

• The Phanran Lunar Calendar- corresponds to Phanra. Has 9 lunar months with 40-41 days. This is called the Death Calendar and is used for making devotional human sacrifices to Solvix Solis, penance, and necromancy since it determines which days portals can be opened into Tlautatan.

IXENTHACRON SACRED CALENDAR (Northern Hemisphere):

1. FEIHEL- Month of Feihelix, 25 days. 

2. KALIKOR- Month of Leokalix Kronon, 24 days.

3. ANTHA- Month of Antheopheron Talan, 24 days.

4. TLALTACRAN- Month of Tlaltatec, 25 days. Spring Equinox on the 18th day of the month, day 91 of the year, 91 days since the Winter Solstice.

5. KESER- Month of Kesera Byta, 24 days.

6. LEIXALAS- Month of Leixei, 24 days.

7. KARAPH- Month of Karkaphet Amphex, 24 days.

8. SLEURON- Month of Sleuon, 25 days. Summer Solstice on the 12th day of the month, day 182 of the year, 91 days since the Spring Equinox.

9. KOXYPHEN- Month of Koxeon Xys, 24 days.

10. KYTHRAM- Month of Kythralix, 24 days.

11. PETHLAR- Month of Pethlatex, 24 days.

12. LEIKAL- Month of Leikalon Phys, 25 days. Autumnal Equinox on the 6th of the month, day 273 of the year, 91 days since the Summer Solstice.

13. ALKATAL- Month of Faltatec Latal, 24 days.

14. XELEN- Month of Xeilan Talex, 24 days.

15. SOLVIXAT- Month of Solvix Solis, 25 days. Winter Solstice on the 25th day of the month, day 365 of the year, 92 days since Autumnal Equinox.

Religious holidays:

• Sacrifice Day- The first of every month, 15 people are offered in sacrifice to Feihelix.

• Festival of Revival- 16-18th of Tlaltacran, ending with the Day of Revival on the Spring Equinox (18th of Tlaltacran). This celebrates the arrival of spring and Tlaltatec's (and the planet’s) symbolic rebirth. The planet dies through Tlaltatec throughout the course of the year, her health reflecting in the seasons. Her skin progressively falls off as the seasons pass until she has been fully flayed on the Winter Solstice, marking her death. She spends the whole winter dead, wearing her flayed skin, until the Spring Equinox when her skin grows back.

• Festival of Unity- 12-14th of Keser ending with the Day of the Mother (14th of Keser on Gasamed’s full moon that month).

• Festival of Love and Fertility- 18th of Leixalas on Gasamed’s full moon that month. Basically an Ixenthacron Valentine’s Day.

• Kairamex- 6th-12th of Sleuron, Ixenthacron midsummer, the most sacred festival of the year, dedicated to Sleuon. Concludes on the Day of the Sun (12th of Sleuron), the Summer Solstice, where 2 people are sacrificed to Sleuon along with hundreds of animals. People also eat cicadas and locusts which symbolize Sauralachi and Intoplan. The Summer Solstice has a moonless night since it is the only day of the year where all three moons are new.

• Festival of Ancestral Heritage- 4th-6th of Kythram, ends with the Day of the Father (6th of Kythram on Gasamed’s full moon that month).

• Harvest Festival- 24th of Pethlar-6th of Leikal, ending with the Day of Abundance on the Autumn Equinox (6th of Leikal). Mass animal sacrifice and lots of eating.

• Kanramet- 3rd-22nd of Alkatal, a 20-day ascetic period starting with Gasamed’s new moon where all men abstain from eating meat, dairy, and spices, having sex, listening to music, singing, dancing, eating sugar, playing sports, or playing games. The Archpriest of the Black Sect flogs himself 9 times each day with a flogger of thorns to atone for all the world’s sins and reset everyone’s sin for the next month. No weddings/sealing ceremonies take place during Kanramet.

• Day of Life- 23rd of Alkatal, the day after Kanramet ends. Celebrates the atonement of sins and the lifting of restrictions. This is also the day people who were born during Kanramet usually celebrate their birthdays.

• Festival of Death and Eternity- 19th-25th of Solvixat, ends with the Day of the Serpent (25th of Solvixat) on the Winter Solstice (marking the end of the year and the death of Tlaltatec) with 9 human sacrifices to Solvix Solis. The Winter Solstice is the only day of the year where all 3 moons are full.

Other observances:

• Convocation- Takes place every fortnight meaning almost every month has 2 convocations with a few exceptions that have only 1. Every endowed person puts on their temple garments, draws on the Mark of the Covenant (if Ixokai), and meets at their local temple of Sleuon for a reading at the temple’s Hall of Convocation before then moving to the Room of Communion to prostrate before Sleuon’s idol. The use of temple garments, which are made of white cotton, is mandatory.

• Planting rituals- During the planting season, which varies by region and crop but usually falls during Keser, a priest of Leikalon Phys will cut open his palm and let the blood fall on the soil. This is done to mimic how Leikalon Phys cut open his palm to create Albasax and continues to cut open his palm to make crops grow. Cuts of meat, produce, eggs, and dairy are also buried together in the soil as a sacrifice. 

Ixokai national and civic holidays:

• Victory Day- 16th of Feihel, commemoration of the victory over the war with Athnogaula that cost 50 million deaths. Celebrated with national demonstrations, a military parade, and 100 human sacrifices to Feihelix + 20 kaprozernox sacrifices. The number of human and animal sacrifices often exceeds these numbers if the State is feeling especially festive, sometimes even rising to 2,000 human offerings in one day.

• Fatherland Month- 1st-24th of Kalikor, the whole month. Actual celebrations take place on Republic Day (15th of Kalikor) celebrating the start of the Republic, with a massive military parade, fireworks, and speeches. Another day is Conquest Day (16th of Kalikor), celebrating the consolidation of Ixokai power over Antelor. Celebrated with torch rallies and pyre burnings, animal sacrifices, and parades.

• Constitution Day- 7th of Karaph. Celebrates the signing of the Constitution. Torch rallies and marches.

• Lunar Day- 22nd of Koxyphen. Celebrates the Ixokai moon landing and space program with parades, television replays, and toy rockets.

• Festival of Reason- 3rd-9th of Pethlar. Celebrates science of scientific achievement, national excellence, and admiration of Creation. Precessions of Reason, torch rallies, and Assemblies of Reason take place.

International holidays:

• Green World Day- 24th of Tlaltacran, celebrates nuclear fusion and the total abandonment of fossil fuels in countries that have fusion, and the advancement towards renewable energy in countries that do not.

• World Health Day- 11th of Pethlar, celebrates the invention of the Osomerix Device that cured cancer. Wreath layings at the World Cancer Memorial in Inhentys Lapydah (and other cancer memorials worldwide) with speeches.

GASAMEDIAN LUNAR CALENDAR:

1. Lunar Month 1- From 1st Feihel-3rd Kalikor, 28 days. 

2. Lunar Month 2- From 4th Kalikor-7th Antha, 28 days.

3. Lunar Month 3- From 8th Antha- 11th Tlaltacran, 28 days.

4. Lunar Month 4- From 12th Tlaltacran-14th Keser, 28 days.

5. Lunar Month 5- From 15th Keser-18th Leixalas, 28 days.

6. Lunar Month 6- From 19th Leixalas-22nd Karaph, 28 days.

7. Lunar Month 7- From 23rd Karaph-1st Koxyphen, 28 days.

8. Lunar Month 8- From 2nd Koxyphen-6th Kythram, 29 days.

9. Lunar Month 9- From 7th Kythram-10th Pethlar, 28 days.

10. Lunar Month 10- From 11th Pethlar-14th Leikal, 28 days.

11. Lunar Month 11- From 15th Leikal-17th Alkatal, 28 days.

12. Lunar Month 12- From 18th Alkatal-21st Xelen, 28 days.

13. Lunar Month 13- From 22nd Xelen-25th Solvixat, 28 days.

The months end on every full moon of Gasamed. Gasamed’s exact astronomical cycle is 28.076923 days which translates to 28-29 whole civil days.

There are full moons on the 3rd of Kalikor, 7th of Antha, 11th of Tlaltacran, 14th of Keser, 18th of Leixalas, 22nd of Karaph, 1st of Koxyphen, 6th of Kythram, 10th of Pethlar, 14th of Leikal, 17th of Alkatal, 21st of Xelen, and the 25th of Solvixat. These are the most auspicious days for non-solar religious celebrations. 

ZYLIAN LUNAR CALENDAR:

1. Lunar Month 1- From 1st Feihel-16th Feihel, 16 days.

2. Lunar Month2- From 17th Feihel-7th Kalikor, 16 days.

3. Lunar Month 3- From 8th Kalikor-23rd Kalikor, 16 days.

4. Lunar Month 4- From 24th Kalikor-14th Antha, 15 days.

5. Lunar Month 5- From 15th Antha-6th Tlaltacran, 16 days.

6. Lunar Month 6- From 7th Tlaltacran-22nd Tlaltacran, 16 days.

7. Lunar Month 7- From 23rd Tlaltacran-13th Keser, 16 days.

8. Lunar Month 8- From 14th Keser-5th Leixalas, 16 days.

9. Lunar Month 9- From 6th Leixalas-21st Leixalas, 16 days.

10. Lunar Month 10- From 22nd Leixalas-13th Karaph, 16 days.

11. Lunar Month 11- From 14th Karaph-5th Sleuron, 16 days.

12. Lunar Month 12- From 6th Sleuron-20th Sleuron, 15 days.

13. Lunar Month 13- From 21st Sleuron-11th Koxyphen, 16 days.

14. Lunar Month 14- From 12th Koxyphen-3rd Kythram, 16 days.

15. Lunar Month 15- From 4th Kythram-19th Kythram, 16 days.

16. Lunar Month 16- From 20th Kythram-11th Pethlar, 16 days.

17. Lunar Month 17- From 12th Pethlar-3rd Leikal, 16 days.

18. Lunar Month 18- From 4th Leikal-19th Leikal, 16 days.

19. Lunar Month 19- From 20th Leikal-10th Alkatal, 16 days.

20. Lunar Month 20- From 11th Alkatal-1st Xelen, 15 days.

21. Lunar Month 21- From 2nd Xelen-17th Xelen, 16 days.

22. Lunar Month 22- From 18th Xelen-9th Solvixat, 16 days.

23. Lunar Month 23- From 10th Solvixat-25th Solvixat, 16 days.

The months end on every full moon of Zylcron. Zylcron’s exact astronomical cycle is 15.869565 days which translates to 15-16 whole civil days.

There are full moons ont he 16th of Feihel, 7th of Kalikor, 23rd of Kalikor, 14th of Antha, 6th of Tlaltacran, 22nd of Tlaltacran, 13th of Keser, 5th of Leixalas, 21st of Leixalas, 13th of Karaph, 5th of Sleuron, 20th of Sleuron, 11th of Koxyphen, 3rd of Kythram, 19th of Kythram, 11th of Pethlar, 3rd of Leikal, 19th of Leikal, 10th of Alkatal, 1st of Xelen, 17th of Xelen, 9th of Solvixat, and 25th of Solvixat. These are the best days for animal sacrifice and offerings and have the best omens. They are also the only days oracles can receive visions. 

The new moons are bad omens and not advisable for animal sacrifice or offerings. If an oracle receives a dream on one of these, it is a bad omen.

There are 23 bad omens on these days because there is no Zylcron in the sky:

1. 8th of Feihel

2. 23rd-24th of Feihel

3. 14th-15th of Kalikor

4. 6th-7th Antha

5. 22nd-23rd Antha

6. 14th-15th of Tlaltacran

7. 5th-6th of Keser

8. 21st-22nd of Keser

9. 12th-13th of Leixalas

10. 4th-5th of Karaph

11. 20th-21st of Karaph

12. 12th of Sleuron, the Summer Solstice, but it doesn’t matter because it’s a solar station

13. 3rd-4th of Koxyphen

14. 19th-20th of Koxyphen

15. 11th-12th of Kythram

16. 3rd-4th of Pethlar

17. 18th-19th of Pethlar

18. 10th-11th of Leikal

19. 1st-2nd of Alkatal

20. 17th-18th of Alkatal

21. 9th-10th of Xelen

22. 1st-2nd of Solvixat

23. 17th-18th of Solvixat

PHANRAN LUNAR CALENDAR:

1. Lunar Month 1- 1st Feihel-15th Kalikor, 40 days.

2. Lunar Month 2- 16th Kalikor-8th Tlaltacran, 41 days.

3. Lunar Month 3- 9th Tlaltacran-23rd Keser, 40 days.

4. Lunar Month 4- 24th Keser-16th Karaph, 41 days.

5. Lunar Month 5- 17th Karaph-8th Koxyphen, 41 days.

6. Lunar Month 6- 9th Koxyphen-24th Kythram, 40 days.

7. Lunar Month 7- 1st Pethlar-17th Leikal, 41 days.

8. Lunar Month 8- 18th Leikal-8th Xelen, 40 days.

9. Lunar Month 9- 9th Xelen-25th Solvixat, 41 days.

The months end on every full moon of Phanra. Phanra’s exact astronomical cycle is 40.555556 days which translates to 40-41 whole civil days.

There are full moons on the 15th of Kalikor, 8th of Tlaltacran, 23rd of Keser, 16th of Karaph, 8th of Koxyphen, 24th of Kythram, 17th of Leikal, 8th of Xelen, and 25th of Solvixat. These are the only days on which portals into Tlautatan can be opened and the best days for devotional human sacrifice to Solvix Solis. 

Penitent fasts are measured in Phanran months and last from a set new moon until another new moon. Kanramet is a mandated observance so it is measured according to the Gasamedian Calendar, but penitent fasts are those performed as personal penance for sins.

TEMPLES

An Ixenthacron temple complex consists of several buildings and is shaped like a square (sometimes rectangular) courtyard with the temple in the center. The central axis of the square contains the main buildings. The buildings are arranged in a line like this:

Gate idols (two stone idols at either side of the entrance > vestibule > stone for slaughter, temple proper, and the House of Harmony. On either side of the courtyard are the archives (left) and the priest’s quarters (right). The vestibule building, archive, priest’s quarters, and House of Harmony are connected by the wall of the temple and form the four sides of the square (or rectangle): the vestibule the bottom face, the archive the left face, the priests’ quarters the right face, and the House of Harmony the top face. 

The direction of the buildings depends on the Sect. For the White Sect, in particular, the buildings are arranged from south to north with the entrance at the south and the House of Harmony at the northernmost end. The progression into the temple is thus from the south towards the north since Sleuon’s holy direction is north (but this changes depending on the god the temple is for). The archive is to the west, and the priest’s quarters are to the east.

For a temple of Sleuon, the vestibule is replaced by the Hall of Convocation. So, you walk from the south, in between the gate idols, towards the entrance in the north.

The Hall of Convocation is a large square room with seats, a minor idol, and an incense altar in the center of the room. The incense altar is a stone box with a fire in the center. Prayers are written on incense paper and then thrown into the fire. For a generic temple, the vestibule is likewise a square room, but it only contains an idol and an incense burner.

On the walls flanking the vestibule/Hall of Convocation are the lavers for ritual ablution. The Hall of Convocation has two doors, one at the east and one at the west. Men exit from the west and women from the east to go to the lavers for ritual ablution just outside the room before heading to the temple proper for prostration.

Once you get past the vestibule/Hall of Convocation, you step into the courtyard where the temple itself sits in the middle. Right in front of the temple is the stone of slaughter where animal sacrifices are slaughtered. 

The temple itself is shaped like a pyramid with 4 steps in total: the solid base, the Room of Communion, the oracular hall, and the sanctuary.

The base is a massive solid block of earth and stone overlayed with limestone. The actual temple building sits on top of this base. Staircases go up the south end of the base into the temple.

Technically this solid base is the first step of the pyramid, but the usable space of the temple, the interior space, begins with the Room of Communion. The Room of Communion is the first step of the usable pyramid. In this first usable step, there are columns all throughout that support the other two steps above it. It is a hypostyle hall. The steps themselves can be multiple levels tall. In antiquity, each step was usually just one level, sometimes two levels, and at most three; but those were for truly monumental, rare, and daring constructions since stacking so much weight was dangerous at the time. Two levels were already pushing the limits. Since the usable pyramid has three steps, that would have been 6 levels in total, 2 for each step. Already challenging for a time of limestone and bronze tools.

Today, however, modern technology allows each step to be monumentally tall and with multiple levels each while preserving a traditional appearance. 

So, the first usable step on top of the solid base is the Room of Communion. This is a hypostyle hall that includes the monumental idol of the god (in this case Sleuon), which is large and made out of stone. In front of it are a flat altar for offerings and an incense burner. The incense burner is the statue of a priest with cupped hands. The incense is placed in his hands and must always burn every day without exception. Before this large stone idol is where prostrations are performed. This only happens at temples of Sleuon, no other god receives prostrations.

The second step above the Room of Communion has columns which continue from the first and support the third step. This step is for oracular revelation; this is where oracles use mirrors to receive visions and where they record them. This is also where certain ritual items are stored and where the priests eat their portion of the offerings. 

The usable third step at the top of the temple is where the sanctuary is. This is where the precious idol (smaller than the monumental one, and made of costly materials), the altar for burnt offerings, and the lampstand are. This lampstand is the statue of a priest with cupped hands but this time, oil is pooled in his hands and lit. This oil lamp represents the god’s presence in the temple. When the temple is dedicated, the lamp is lit and the god inhabits it. The lamp must remain lit at all times. The altar for burnt offerings is a stone box with a bronze grating that sifts the ashes. The roof of the sanctuary is made of kem wood planks with vents to let the smoke escape. The smoke signals ritual activity going on in the temple. These iconic smoking pyramids have sat at the center of Ixokai cities for thousands of years.

When an animal sacrifice is performed, the animal is slaughtered on the stone of slaughter which is in the courtyard. The portions devoted to consumption are collected and the god’s portions are taken up the pyramid all the way to the sanctuary to be burned on the altar for burnt offerings in the presence of the precious idol. 

Grand Temples of the Triumvirate, which combine the temples of all 3 Greater Gods into a single one, have a monumental solid base with 3 of these 3-stepped temple buildings on top, one for each Triumvirate member (except this time they are called shrines: 3 monumental shrines or triple shrines). For the Grand Temple of the Triumvirate in Inhentys Lapydah specifically, the sacrificial terrace, which is from where monthly human sacrifices are slaughtered, is at the top of the solid base. Even though the solid base is just the first step of the pyramid, it is tall enough that the offerings die upon falling from it onto the stone of slaughter at the base. This terrace has a second stone of slaughter on top of it, which is where devotional human sacrifices are slaughtered before being thrown down onto the second stone at the base of the pyramid.

Dual temples, for god pairs like Kesera Byta and Kythralix, are the same idea as Grand Temples of the Triumvirate, except instead of 3 shrines they have 2.  Apart from this, temples of Kesera Byta have a marriage court right in front of the temple instead of having a stone of slaughter. This marriage court is where sealing ceremonies take place. Temples of Kesera Byta are ubiquitous since they can only have one marriage court each and they are constantly in need. 

Now finally, behind the actual temple, at the northernmost end of the complex (or whichever direction is the god’s holy direction), is the House of Harmony. This is a square building with four totemic pillars inside it that don’t reach the ceiling. These totemic pillars represent the four realms of reality and are painted accordingly: the Slanacrai pillar is white, the Tlautatan pillar is black, the Kanthacran pillar is red, and the Xenopran pillar is blue. This mysterious building is what connects the temple to Slanacrai and is a waypoint into the Axis Mundi. 

IXENTHACRONISM ABROAD

Ixenthacronism is the most prevalent religion in the world with over 12 billion adherents (out of which 5.7 billion are Ixokai and the rest Gentiles), almost half of Kastatlan’s population. Originating on Antelor, it subsequently spread to every continent. Today, it is the official religion of 17 countries while remaining a majority in 8 more, a worldwide region referred to as the White World. The Ixenthacron majority countries (those whose population is at least 50% or more Ixenthacron) on Kastatlan are: 

1. The Ixokai Maxotlan- origin, explicit theocracy, and supermajority

2. Daqar- explicit theocracy and supermajority

3. Sylane- explicit theocracy and supermajority

4. Irkenau- explicit theocracy and supermajority

5. Taurtamar- explicit theocracy and supermajority

6. Calca Latra- explicit theocracy and supermajority

7. Xentros Rauna- explicit theocracy and supermajority

8. Azcaracron- explicit theocracy and supermajority

9. Fauramax- explicit theocracy and supermajority

10. Karposat- explicit theocracy and supermajority

11. Drasnamon- explicit theocracy and supermajority

12. Halson- explicit theocracy and supermajority

13. Democratic Republic of Anastar- explicit theocracy

14. Bantoplan- explicit theocracy

15. Argatrop- explicit theocracy

16. Xgrula- explicit theocracy

17. Paxumoc- majority

18. Uchil Pa- majority

19. Lam Cuxu- majority

20. Galgasen- majority

21. Fantadron- explicit theocracy. Fantadron is a former Ixokai colony liberated from Silam.

22. New Ghelan- majority

23. Danati- majority

24. Hoyanut- majority

25. Axraun- majority 

26. Dormosat- majority (60%)

27. Durasat- majority (52%)

Ixenthacronism requires a theocracy to properly enforce its jurisprudence, so it has caused turmoil in nations where it is the majority but not the official religion. Usually, when Ixenthacronism becomes the majority in an otherwise infidel nation, it will seek to progressively penetrate the state until it can procure legal permission for its customs and eventually preferential treatment. Ixenthacronism is incompatible with false religions since it cannot coexist with evil and this will seek the destruction of heathen religions at every turn. Often there comes a time in heathen nations when Ixenthacronism either reaches 50% or finally surpasses 50% after a long period of equilibrium. This kickstarts a period of instability that tends to get progressively worse since the Ixenthacron majority will become more and more persistent in gaining legal accommodations while the original heathen majority/local religion will resist it ever more aggressively. Human sacrifice is usually the most divisive practice, but other customs that Ixenthacron jurisprudence requires are the ability to execute and mutilate people according to its criminal law and the use of human remains as ritual artifacts. These things are usually illegal or permitted only for the local religion where practices overlap. In Bantoplan, for example, the population is 75% Ixenthacron and yet it is not an official Ixenthacron theocracy since the local religion remains a constant obstacle. Ixenthacronism in Bantoplan has achieved sufficient legal accommodation to the point that it can perform its human sacrifices and carry out its own legal penalties, but the road to that success was arduous and destabilizing. Religious tension remains high in Bantoplan as the local religion slowly dies, kicking and screaming all the way, and the Ixenthacron majority moves to consolidate its power over the country. Forever.

Nonetheless, various infidel countries nonetheless align more with the Ixenthacron sphere and the White Arch than the Countervail, leading to unlikely yet significant alliances. Some important heathen allies of the White Arch specifically are nations like Hanai, Tolan, Sipon, Toladren, and Jeun plus sundry. 

The faithful Gentile nations recognize the Ixokai as the personal covenant people of Sleuon and seek allegiance with it. The Ixokai’s burden of Sleuon would theoretically require the destruction of all foreign identities, which is not a problem when conquering heathens, but it means even the faithful Gentile nations would have to give up their national identities and sovereignty to become part of the Ixokai State. This is currently impractical and unnecessarily divisive, so the logical arrangement is for a single, Ixokai-led, Ixenthacron bloc to be created to the end of converting the entire planet to Ixenthacronism first before answering the nationality question. The White Arch is the forerunner of this model, and as Ixenthacronism continues to spread and suck more and more nations into its sphere, the worldwide Ixenthacron bloc will gradually form. The Ixokai State would eventually have to devise a way to make everyone Ixokai, ideally through voluntary incorporation, but it would require the dissolution of all non-Ixokai national identities.

The Ixokai State is the only entity that can offer valid Feihelan sacrifice. Meaning sustentative human sacrifice to Feihelix only takes place in Inhentys Lapydah. Foreign nations nonetheless can still perform devotional human sacrifices and are still subject to the sacrificial customs surrounding war.

As previously stated, the Ixenthacron Church divides the world into Stakes which can either coincide with national borders, clump multiple nations together, or break nations down. Since the Ixokai Maxotlan is so large, it is broken up into 5 Stakes and the same happens with Daqar, but other nations are usually intact within their Stake. The Archpriests of all the Stakes meet with the High Prophet and the sectarian authorities in ecumenical councils in Inhentys Lapydah every year. The purpose of these councils is to better coordinate the governance of the worldwide church and to solve regional disputes, eliminate regional accretions, combat syncretism, and coordinate political action in the various Stakes that remain unofficially Ixenthacron. The acts of ecumenical councils can then be read and revisited later on. Ixenthacronism does not hold that the Church is infallible so the ultimate authority in all matters is Scripture, and ecumenical councils can be revised and held against Scripture and oracular deliberation. Oracles are unique in that they can communicate with the gods constantly, often through visions. Though oracular priests can receive visions and revelation, only the High Prophet can actually see into the future.

SLEUONIC FAITHS and FALSE RELIGIONS

Ixenthacronism is a Sleuonic faith, meaning a religion in which Sleuon is a part of the cosmology.  It is not the only one, however, since several other Sleuonic religions exist. Since Ixenthacronism is the only true religion, it means that all these other Sleuonic faiths are false and invalid, on the same level as the heathen religions (if not worse). Every other Sleuonic faith is illegal in the Ixokai State, and their practice on Ixokai soil is punishable by instant death (mind you this is not the case for all heathen religions, the practice of false religion in the Ixokai State typically only results in deportation). All Sleuonic faiths outside of Ixenthacronism are extremely heretical and false, leading directly into damnation without exception.

The Sleuonic faiths are:

• Ixenthacronism- the only true religion.

• Solvic Exceptionalism- a religion that preserves almost the entire cosmology except it places Solvix Solis as the most powerful being in the universe instead of Sleuon. Solvic Exceptionalism is extremely illegal and the Inquisition places particular effort in extinguishing it from the planet. It is not flattering to Solvix Solis and it is not appealing to the Black Sect, it is absolutely repulsive. Sleuon is the legitimate sovereign of the Universe and every other god, including Solvix Solis and Feihelix, are voluntarily and immutably subordinate to him.

• Sleuonic Monolatry and Henotheism- a group of religions that basically preserve all of Ixenthacron cosmology except without denying the existence of gods beyond the 90. They essentially posit to varying degrees that other religions carry their own truth and that different peoples have their own valid gods. This is one of the most abhorrent aberrations of Ixenthacronism.

• Julunmari and the syncretic faiths- Julunmari is a specific false religion from the Antelic South that blends the local religion with Ixenthacronism by adding indigenous gods to the Pantheon and indigenous customs to the religious tradition. It is one of many syncretic faiths which all do the same thing but in their respective regions. The North has its own version, Hendelhaz, and so do all other regions where Ixenthacronism has spread. Syncretic faiths are one of the primary targest of Ixenthacron Church and their total extermination is painstakingly fought for.

• Primordialism- the asinine belief that the only canonical Chronicle out of the Ixentheox Kythras's 5 is the First Chronicle, meaning everything else after it is an accretion. Primordialism uses the Primordial Church Structure, ignores all subsequent theological developments of the last 5000 years, and generally rejects even the idea of the Ixokai since it appears relatively late in the First Chronicle. It is one of the most mercilessly combatted false religions.

If Ixenthacronism is verifiable true, how do the heathens continue to reject it? 

The Ixenthacron Church consistently performs public and recorded signs for the purpose of convincing heathens. Despite this, heathens and secularists continue to reject it. Heathen religions typically explain away Ixenthacron signs and supernatural occurences by either denying them outright or reinterpreting them through their own frameworks. Some might claim they are illusions, visual effects, hoaxes, holograms, stagecraft, or scripted events. This opinion is popular among secularists and particularly uncomprimising heathens. Others do not deny the supernatural nature of the events but instead claim Ixenthacron signs are actually demonic, mystic, or magical works perpetrated by evil or occultic forces. This is particularly the case in Anpaulotism, the religion of Athnogaula, which claims that the Ixokai State is actually a cosmic evil forged against their Twin Gods: Rgalgon and Thnamar. And finally, the majority of heathen and local religions actually do not deny Ixenthacronism's signs or validity but rather continue to operate under the non-exclusivism of ancient cultures in which every nation has its own valid gods, but each individual people worships only their own.

Resistence is made even stronger by the fact that the malignant spirits do actually provide heathens with counterfeit supernatural signs. Heathens are completely unaware of the complete falsehood of their religions and their utter manipulation at the hands of the malignant spirits. Malignant spirits can even make themselves visible, passing as gods and other beings. And the ultimate result of their deception for the heathens is the eternal damnation of their souls. The trickery of the malignant spirits extends to the manipulation of entire nations, which they puppeteer against the Ixokai State on behalf of Sauralachi. 

Counterfeit miracles can never equal legitimate divine power, however. Which is why Ixenthacronism is the only religion that has demigod Patriarchs verifiably living for centuries and interdimensional portals that can be filmed with a phone camera. When Albacran Kypron, the most recent Patriarch, was still alive and over 150 years old without aging, Athnogaula called him the manifestation of Cosmic Evil. Ixenthacronism is the only religion where miracles happen consistently and to the greatest intensity.  The only one whose cosmology aligns perfectly with observable science and measurable natural phenomena. From the interferences in geological readings where Sauralachi is literally present within Kastatlan's core and mantle, to the observable immortality of Sleuronos, the star that Kastatlan orbits. Ixenthacronism has the most concrete, complete, and verifiable evidence and yet the world still rejects it. And the cost of their rejection is hundreds of billions of damned souls.