Traditional Folk Religions

This is a list of traditional folk religions in Burithien.

Conoilithian Folk Religion
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Atenari War-Religion
An exotic warrior nation, the semi-nomadic Atenari have a unique and alien culture, whose belief system is referred to as the 'Atenari War-Religion', or the 'Cult of the Five Champions of the Heavens.' It revolves around the 'Five Champions of the Heavens', war-deities said to be the creators of the Atenari race and their culture. The Five Champions are Mala, Balakhi, Khyorhesh, Omäyal and Hyoral, who are also sometimes collectively referred to as the Ateyalri.

It is believed that the Five Champions constantly and endlessly quarrel and wage war against each other for sport in the Heavens, an otherworld far beyond the sky, duelling and fighting but never dying. Realising that they needed some way of measuring and determining a victory, the Five Champions enfused their war-like spirit into a selection of tribes who dwelt in the Place of Origin, a fabled mysterious faraway land of grassy steppe and lakes, its location long forgotten and lost. The tribes fought against each other, and in the end, only one tribe survived, which grew to become the Atenari. The Five Champions, seeing the Atenari as victors and capable fighters, resolved to take their spirits to the Heavens after death, and use them as warriors for their wars in the Heavens, dying and then being reborn ceaselessly until the end of time, so that they had something to measure the success of their battles with.

The Atenari believe that in order to be given an afterlife, however, one must be slain in combat. Additionally, it is believed that the larger the amount of victims a warrior kills, the higher their chances of being a superior sort of being in the heavens. As a result, the Atenari, hoping to gain an afterlife, roam nomadically across the world, searching for enemies to fight. The religion is administered by priests, who regularly offer sacrifices to the Five Champions to convince them that the Atenari have not forgotten them. Before a campaign or battle, priests also often do a war-dance in front of the Atenari units, which symbolises the fighting techniques of the Five Champions, reminding their warriors of their purpose to serve the Ateyalri in the afterlife.