Church of the Two Lôdiem

The Church of The Two Lôdiem (Also known as Lôdiemi Paganism) is a duotheistic religion founded by the Prophet Potiauara Apisamus, on the Elegatî Tribe, nowadays Elesgate. The religion believes in two gods: Lôdi Eilâtome, god of the universe and the universe itself; and Lâdi Alaechma, Goddess of creation. Both of them are in a constant fight against Ei-Potoka, the embodiment of evil. The church is now led by Mûreaino Apisamus.

Beliefs
The Lôdiemi (believers) believes in the existence of three realms: Ei-Pachoter, the realm of the pure souls; Ei-Lachoter, the realm of the living; And Ei-Shachater, the realm of the evil souls. Each realm has a guardian, which are children of Alaechma, goddess of creation. However, one guardian isn't Alaechma's children, that being Ei-Potoka. Humans can only go through the different realms in their spiritual form.

The Lôdiemi also believe that every living being that Alaechma created is a messenger of the Lôdiem. For this reason, they have the most absolute respect for nature and animals. The main messengers for the church are the bees, for they were the first living beings to be created. For that reason, every temple of the religion has a bee hive on them, For their prayers to be able to reach the Lôdiem.

Cosmology
The Lôdiemi believes that reality is separated in 3 realms: The first realm is called Ei-Pachoter, the light realm inhabited by Lâdi Alaechma and the mystical creatures; The second realm is called Ei-Lachoter, the universe realm. This realm is where we and the other living beings live, and is considered to be the most holy realm, because, for it is believed that The Lôdi is the realm; And the third realm is called Ei-Shachater, it's where all evil deeds are punished.

Deities
Lôdi Eilâtome: The god-universe. He created Lâdi Eilâtome using a piece of himself, a 10-point star. The Lôdi has no physical form and he can't travel through the realms, if he did that, the universe would end. For that reason, he relies on Alaechma to tell him what is happening in the other realms.

Lâdi Alaechma: The goddess of creation. She created the guardians, the living beings, the planets, and all the realms in existence. The Lâdi is a benevolent and forgiving goddess, fighting on the side of those that seek to protect those that can't protect themselves.

Although the church only worships the Lôdi and Lâdi, there were three (nowadays two) other deities that aren't worshipped, but only respected. Those deities are the children of Alaechma and guardians of the realms. They are considered deities because, when Alaechma created them, she gave a piece of her divinity to them. They are:

Ei-Tatoleor: He is the guardian of the Ei-Pachoter realm, the first guardian to be created. He, along with Alaechma, defends Ei-Pachoter from the frequent attempts of invasion from Ei-Potoka. He is also the guardian of justice, life and beauty.

Ei-Kitina: She is the guardian of the Ei-Lachoter realm, protecting the pure humans from the evil ones. She is also the guardian of dreams, light and poetry.

Ei-Lakatar: He was the former guardian of the Ei-Shachater realm, but was overthroned and murdered by Ei-Potoka. He was also the guardian of death, emotions and revenge.

Prayer
Call:

Lôdi Eilâtome, Lord of the universe, you who guide the souls to the good path. Hear our prayer and turn your face towards us. Yours is the universe for all eternity. Lord Eilâtome, look down upon us and protect us in the darkness.

Response:

Lord of all, give us strenght today and punish the unjust. May your glory shine through all of us. Eilâtome Echaltado!

Call:

Lâdi Alaechma, Lady of Light, hear us and defend us from this corrupted world. Fill our hearts with your love and save us from Potoka. Yours is the life that fills our lungs and the light that shines through the world. May your justice be done on all lands and your truth be heard by all men.

Response:

Lady of the creation, protect us today, defend your creation from this world. You, who have the power to take life and to give life. Alaechma Echaltada!

Call:

Lôdiem of the realms, hear our prayer today and protect us. We thank you for the sun that warms our days and for the moon that illuminates our nights. We thank you for our lives and for the nature that you gave us. Oh Lôdiem, be merciful on us and defend us. For the world is corrupted with evil, and only you can clean it.

Response:

We thank you, Lôdiem, for your protection and justice. For the world is corrupted with evil.

Aloerer
The aloerers are prophecies or visions sent by the Lôdiem. Those that recieve a aloerers is, most of the times, chosen to be the new Ei-Aloer (The Prophet) of the church. For that reason, there may have more than 1 Ei-Aloer at a time, although that's rare. An aloerer can occur while the person is asleep or awake. If the aloerer happends when the person is awake, they will enter in a trance and start screaming what is being seen.

Sacrifices
Anyone that is part of the church can perform their own sacrifices to the gods. However, animal and human sacrifice is not allowed in the church, because they are considered to be messengers of the gods and are sacred. The most common sacrifices are of food and other items to please the Lôdiem. The location of the sacrifices depends on what god you wish to please. If it's Alaechma, the sacrifice is performed on a forest, where a fireplace is made and the food and items are burned. If it's Eilâtome, the sacrifice is performed on a high ground (A mountain or tower), where the sacrifices are burned.

Weddings
The wedding ceremony is performed on a shrine in the nature by a pamir or a bishop. The engaged use white clothes for the ceremony. The oaths are as following:

Do you, (Groom's name and house), promise to love, to respect, and to protect (Bride's name and house) until your time on this realm is over?

After the groom's oath, the bride is next. The oath is the same but directed to the bride. After they both say  I do , the pamir or bishop then says:

''So be it. In the presence of the Great Father, the Great Mother, and of all their Messengers on this earth to bare witness to this union, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife.''

After the ceremony, both the husband and the wife sacrifice honey and crops to the Lôdiem, as a way to thank them for the union and to protect them from Ei-Potoka.

Mythology
(Check the Book Elech mar Elech for most of the mythologies)

The Creation of Alechma
Before time itself, there was only one thing in existence, Lôdi Eilâtome. After billions of years of being the only thing that existed, the Lôdi felt alone. Seeing the infinite space, all empty, made him sad. But Eilâtome had a solution. '' I shall bring life to this space. '' . But he didn't want to do that all alone, he wanted to share the happiness with someone. So, The Lôdi decided to create a goddess to rule and create with him. To create her, Eilâtome grabbed a 10-point star and started molding it. When Lôdi Eilâtome finished molding the star, he said  Lâdi . When he said that, the molded star, that was once a lifeless body, opened her eyes. After doing that, the goddess looked at the empty infinite space, she was filled with angst, and she cried. Lôdi Eilâtome, seeing her cry, tried to comfort her. After the goddess stopped crying, Eilâtome said '' You are Lâdi Alaechma, goddess of creation, we shall end this sad emptiness and fill the universe with life.  . Alaechma then said  We shall. '' . The idea of having a universe full of living beings was amazing to them. So much so that both Lôdiem started crying of happiness and singing so loud that the existing stars trembled. Then, the plan of creating life in the universe started.

The Creation of the World
Lâdi Alaechma, goddess of creation, started to plan the creation of everything. She first created all the planets that exist today using stars and blowing the fire out of them. Next, she created the greenery, the grass, she created by knitting a green carpet out of an unknown material and spreading on the surface of the planets; The trees, she created by sculpting a clay pillar and placing on top a ball of the same material of grass. Seeing the planets and the vegetation She created, Lâdi Alaechma got emotional and cried, and her tears formed the oceans and the lakes. After She finished creating the planets, vegetation and oceans, Alaechma decided to create life. To start, she decided to create the bees first. The first bee Alaechma created was called Jechadî. After the bees, she created the animals that grow inside their mother and walked on land; cows, pigs, sheeps, goats, and every animal imaginable. Soon after creating them, She created the animals that lived on the water; whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, fishes, and every animal imaginable. Later, she created the birds, those that can fly and those that can't fly; The chickens, penguins, parrots, toucans, flamingos, and every animal imaginable. After that, She created the animals that crawled on the earth's underground; The ants, termites, worms, and every animal imaginable. After creating every animal she wanted, Alaechma spread them all across the world and designated every single one of them as the Holy Messengers of the perfection of creation and of the Two Lôdiem, but put the bees on a higher level of importance. But Lâdi Alaechma felt like something was missing. An animal that did not existed yet and that was smarter than the rest of the animals, with a powerful mind. She then had the idea to create the human beings. She asked for Eilâtome's help. To create the humans, Lâdi Alaechma harvested the wax from a beehive, melted it, and poured it on a mold that she made on the ground. She did that 100. After she did that, Alaechma grabbed all of the wax statues, she called Eilâtome. Lôdi Eilâtome then said upon the statues  Poto . When he said that, all of the statues came to life: 50 of these statues were male and 50 were female. The living wax statues were called  humans . Alaechma gave the humans an extraordinary intelligence and mind. Humans were able to think by themselves, make decisions by themselves, they were creative and curious, they were the perfect creation. The humans weren't immortal, so Lâdi Alaechma and Lôdi Eilâtome Decided to create a different realm for the humans to go to when they pass away. This realm was called Ei-Pachoter. That was the creation.

Creation of Ei-Pachoter
Humans are not immortal, at least not when they are in this realm of ours. The Lôdiem, merciful as they are, realized that when we die, we would simply disappear, we would never meet them. So they found a solution to that: Lâdi Alaechma and Lôdi Eilâtome created another realm, called Ei-Pachoter, with half of the main crystal on Lâdi's crown, and she filled the realm with all the happiness that one could imagine. Although it is not known how the process of the creation of the realm happened, it is known that Lôdi Eilâtome was the one responsible for it, and for that he must be praised.

When the realm was created, Lâdi Alaechma also created the mystical creatures, such as the Shepherds and the Konduktors, and the first 2 guardians of the realms: Ei-Tatoleor, guardian of the Ei-Pachoter; And Ei-Kitina, the guardian of the Ei-Lachoter realm.

The Corruption of Humanity
The humans that Lâdi Alaechma created, that were once pure, innocent and good, started to become corrupt. Humans, as a consequence of their powerful mind given by Alaechma, started to become greedy, selfish and start to have evil thoughts. Seeing that, the Lôdiem created the Ei-Shachater, a place for punishment for the humans that became evil, and she also created a guardian for that realm: Ei-Lakatar. But the evil thoughts didn’t stop, in fact, they became much stronger. So much so, that the thoughts started to manifest themselves physically, creating an amalgamation of pure evil, called Ei-Potoka. They are the embodiment of evil, the one that causes destruction on all the corners of the world. They are the downfall of humanity.

The Guardians War
Ei-Potoka, the embodiment of evil, wanted power. They wanted a realm of their own to control and to control those in it. So they decided to first try to take control over our realm, Ei-Lachoter. When Ei-Kitina saw them, she started to battle against Ei-Potoka, but she couldn’t beat them alone and was losing the battle. When Lôdi Eilâtome saw that, he started helping Ei-Kitina, only then was Ei-Potoka defeated. Humiliated, they went to Ei-Pachoter to try and take control over the realm. Ei-Tatoleor also battled against Ei-Potoka, and was losing the battle. Lâdi Alaechma, seeing that her creation was in danger, started fighting side by side with Ei-Tatoleor against Ei-Potoka, who ended up losing the battle.

Frustrated, Ei-Potoka went to their last option: Ei-Shachater. When they arrived, they noticed that the Lôdiem weren’t present in that realm, which meant that Ei-Potoka could finally win a battle and take control over a realm. When Ei-Lakatar saw Ei-Potoka’s intentions, he immediately started to fight against them. But without help, he wasn’t capable of winning, so he screamed for his siblings' help. He screamed so loud that the earth’s land fractured into pieces. When they heard his scream, Ei-Tatoleor and Ei-Kitina rushed to help their brother and they fought against Ei-Potoka, but even with the 3 guardians fighting together they couldn’t defeat Ei-Potoka. Ei-Potoka saw the chance to take over the realm, and they killed Ei-Lakatar. When the guardians saw that, they ran away crying, but before leaving the realm, both of them said out loud:

‘’We curse you, who killed our brother and the divine creation of the Great Mother. We swear that one day, a human woman shall appear out of thin air, and she will have the power of the guardians and the Lôdiem together, and with her hands, the vengeance of Ei-Lakatar shall destroy you. We call all the messengers of the Lôdiem to hear our plea and promise and to never forget it.’’

After that, they left the realm. The result of this war that lasted 2000 was the murdering of Ei-Lakatar, the lost of the Ei-Shachater realm to evil, and the fracturing of the lands into pieces.