Hudorianism

Hudorianism is a religion in Abexilas. Hudoria, the Goddess of water, is the head of the Hudorianist pantheon. She created the oceans, rivers, clouds, and everything that contains water to combat against the Snake Demon Opisor and his son Sarga.

Beliefs
The only material to fall from the heavens - and rise back up again - is water. Everything - from the fog, to the oceans, to the clouds, and even our own bodies - are all made of this divine material. We are all creations of the Water Goddess, each of us imbued with a tiny portion of Herself to give us existence. The fog condenses and disperses at the behest of the Goddess, the oceans crash against the coastline at the Goddess’s command, but for us, the Goddess gave us the power of sapience to rule over Her other creations and maintain order.

Angels
Our lives continue in a cycle, even after death. When we all die, each and every one of us will reincarnate as angels. No matter their merit, people will go to the realm of purgatory and become protectors of mankind known as Angels. Angels will guard the earth from the hostility of the godly realms. When they die or are killed, an Angel’s body falls back to the earth as rain, bringing life to the soils and beginning the cycle anew.

Creation myth
Hudoria, the Goddess of water, is the head of the pantheon. She created the oceans, rivers, clouds, and all that contains water to combat against the Snake Demon Opisor and his son Sarga.

Opisor and Hudoria fought one another for eons, until Hudoria thought of the idea to create water. From the water sprouted Hudoria’s first creations - the mighty Shark Kharkary, the Sea Guardian Pythos, and the great Mother Tree.

With Her creations, Hurodia finally slew the Snake Demon Opisor, but could not catch Sarga before he escaped. Out of the corpse of Opisor, Hudoria and Her creations made the Earth. Hudoria filled the ravines and depressions of the new planet with Her precious water. Kharkary populated the oceans with fish, coral, and all aquatic life. Pythos created the skies to protect the oceans from the harshness of the void. The Mother Tree grew her roots across the world, and sprouted new trees and all matter of plant life from herself.

Hudoria believed the Earth needed one more thing - beings to walk on it’s surface and protect Her creations from the wrath of Sarga, and any other force who would destroy Her work. So, She created humans. But the humans became lonely, so She created animals to act as their companions. Hudoria provided the humans a unique ability - Angelhood - where they would be able to serve at Hudoria’s bequest in protecting their homeland before returning to the world as Her divine water, which would sprout new life.

= Pantheon= Hudoria is the primordial being, having always existed. She created The Shark Kharkary, the Sea Guardian Pythos, and the Mother Tree.

Kharkary made for himself a beautiful wife, Cordonia, Goddess of the Coral. Together, they had four children. Calythax, God of the lakes and rivers, Goriana, Goddess of the underground reservoirs, Cinfros, God of the frost and ice, and finally Archelos, God of all the fish in the seas

The Sea Guardian Pythos rules the skies above our world, battling any foe from beyond our world. Pythos bore many children with his husband Celumus, God of the clouds, mist, and fog. These children would become every single star we see in the night sky, fighting the void to protect our world. The Angels also fight alongside Pythos’ children. It is said that the stars had children of their own, who became great leaders of the humans.

The Mother Tree brought life across the lands not covered in divine water. From her roots sprouted all plantlife from crops, to trees, to grass, and moss. She provided the humans with food and resources to thrive and protect the world. All products made with plants - from wine to beer to bread - are thanks to the Mother Tree.