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Generally speaking, scriptures are a holy text of some kind. Some faiths have only a singular text, upheld as most important. Others have many of them. There are many kinds of scriptures:

• Canons: Canons are regulatory and organizational, usually bodies of law or other codes of behavior that generally indicate how one is to behave and how a church is to be run.
• Histories: These books detail the historical events around the founding of the church and what has happened to it since. Often filled with tales of the great works of important church figures.
• Hymnals: Songbooks dedicated to the glory of the church's deity, hymnals usually contain music sung as worship.
• Litanicals: Prayer books and sutras, litanicals contain a variety of prayers, methods of meditation and other active rituals, usually intended for performance by the individual.
• Letters: Collections of letters written to and by important figures of the church.
• Prophecies: The recorded words of seers and prophets aligned with the church.
• Sacred Poetry/Tales: Often presented in the form of epic poetry, these texts not only tell the important tales of the faith, but also use them as teaching opportunities for the faithful.
• Sermons: The teachings of important figures - not just their thoughts on matters (those would be Testaments), but literally the lessons they taught their followers.
• Testaments: Testaments are the writings of important church figures over the year. In some testaments, they are simply priests expounding on their understandings; in others, they are believed to be relating the very words or desires of their deity.

Many scriptures are combinations of these. The Analects of the Harp are technically letters, as they are the correspondence between an ancient patriarch of Milil's faith, but they are also sacred poetry/tales, for most of the content of those letters were discussions of the deeds of Milil's heroes. It is also used as a hymnal, for many of those pieces of verse were set to music that is retained by the Mililan church.