During a plague in the 16th Century BC—perhaps an outbreak of blead—a great many people died, whole families at times. More and more had fewer to turn to, as living family to aid them in life or as ancestors to sustain their souls, for memories were lost so quickly. Many suffered, and not only from the plague; to be cut off from family is to be cut off from life itself. Until an old woman and a little girl, known to history as Matong and Min, began to speak, not of the return of memories or the falsification of genealogies, but of a new protector. A man not old or young, timeless as could be, a walking skeleton with a voice so deep it shook the earth. The skeleton had saved the girl from a fire that ate at even the stone itself, had saved the old woman from mourning her long-lost lover by bringing him to her. And he had brought them together, and promised that even they who had no memories of their families would be protected.
Death himself—Dol in Gykkeni—would watch over the living, and grant them peace.
I-nadaewak ("dreamers") are mostly not given to ostentatious worship, although there is the habit of wearing skeletal masks on certain festival days to invite Dol to walk among them and take a break from his work. They are encouraged to live full lives, that they might follow Dol on to the next adventure, and to enjoy themselves how they can.
I-nadaewak are not forbidden from the worship of other gods, including those of Kathan and Izfaism. (This is partly a reaction to a period of persecution where few of them had little choice but to worship other gods, and partly a matter of pragmatism—after all, Dol is the final deity, and will claim the others just as he claims humans, but there's no harm in asking another mortal for help.)
Min (her birth name was Tal) later married another orphan named Daro. Her holy name became that of the family; to this day, over two and a half thousand years after she died, there are people in Gykkeni who claim descent from her. They have chosen Dol, and wear green and gold to mark their connection to him. They have long seen to funerary practices, but also to harvest dances and other small pleasures in life; they believe fundamentally that life is as important as its end, and that the traveller believes the same.