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* Advanced civilization that produces and uses most of the ''thevaqan'' in the Four Suns. | * Advanced civilization that produces and uses most of the ''thevaqan'' in the Four Suns. | ||
* Once a solar theocracy, their culture has long since separated its ''thevaqan''-technologies from its religious orders, forming the ''Suryavarna'' faith, and the Sunwrights, the engineers who craft ''thevaqan'' into useful ships and tools. | * Once a solar theocracy, their culture has long since separated its ''thevaqan''-technologies from its religious orders, forming the ''Suryavarna'' faith, and the Sunwrights, the engineers who craft ''thevaqan'' into useful ships and tools. | ||
| − | ==' | + | ==Cultural Mores== |
| − | '' | + | * Favor androgynous appearance. Garments are culturally unisex. |
| + | * Men tend to wear their hair long, and if they grow beards at all, they are close-shorn; "longbeard" is a term denoting savagery, barbarism, or even insanity. | ||
| + | * Women occasionally have long hair, but most often wear it cut short or even shorn completely. | ||
| + | * Rastramal opinions on nudity are not shame-based; the body is considered a gift to oneself and those whom one is intimate, and showing it to others without their consent is a violation. | ||
| + | ** The breasts, however, are not considered nudity - only genitals are. It is not uncommon for women's fashions to artfully bare a breast, or for women to strip down to the waist while working. | ||
| + | ==Religion== | ||
| + | ===''Suryavarna''=== | ||
* Main holy text is the ''Ravimarga'', which uses the metaphor of the lemniscate solar winds to describe the Path To Brilliance, the inevitable spiritual path of spiritual fulfillment. | * Main holy text is the ''Ravimarga'', which uses the metaphor of the lemniscate solar winds to describe the Path To Brilliance, the inevitable spiritual path of spiritual fulfillment. | ||
* Its central tenets are solar in themed: light is goodness, from light comes love, and from love comes life - a progression referred to as the Three Suns (the Sun-in-Sky, the Sun-in-Breast, and the Sun-in-Union) | * Its central tenets are solar in themed: light is goodness, from light comes love, and from love comes life - a progression referred to as the Three Suns (the Sun-in-Sky, the Sun-in-Breast, and the Sun-in-Union) | ||
Revision as of 11:28, 13 August 2015
Themes: Imperial India, solarpunk, glass & gold, Sanskrit language
- "The Golden Empire" made up of six of the nine planets of the system, though they control all nine (the other three are a colony world, a penal world, and an uninhabited protectorate).
- Advanced civilization that produces and uses most of the thevaqan in the Four Suns.
- Once a solar theocracy, their culture has long since separated its thevaqan-technologies from its religious orders, forming the Suryavarna faith, and the Sunwrights, the engineers who craft thevaqan into useful ships and tools.
Cultural Mores
- Favor androgynous appearance. Garments are culturally unisex.
- Men tend to wear their hair long, and if they grow beards at all, they are close-shorn; "longbeard" is a term denoting savagery, barbarism, or even insanity.
- Women occasionally have long hair, but most often wear it cut short or even shorn completely.
- Rastramal opinions on nudity are not shame-based; the body is considered a gift to oneself and those whom one is intimate, and showing it to others without their consent is a violation.
- The breasts, however, are not considered nudity - only genitals are. It is not uncommon for women's fashions to artfully bare a breast, or for women to strip down to the waist while working.
Religion
Suryavarna
- Main holy text is the Ravimarga, which uses the metaphor of the lemniscate solar winds to describe the Path To Brilliance, the inevitable spiritual path of spiritual fulfillment.
- Its central tenets are solar in themed: light is goodness, from light comes love, and from love comes life - a progression referred to as the Three Suns (the Sun-in-Sky, the Sun-in-Breast, and the Sun-in-Union)
- Teaches ascetic practices to be done in sunlight, including prostrations (yoga-like body limbering performed at midday), fasting during the day and the wearing of thevala (henna-like paint made from the leavings of qamani that heats up to quite hot temperatures in direct sunlight, providing a low level of burn)
- Adherents never wear hats or other head-coverings
- Spirit Pyres: Injected with a substance that causes the skin to ignite and burn away the body entirely, leaving behind a weird statue of golden glass. Fate of all "sainted" folk in the solar religion, including all Emanations.
