Adeysa

Adeysa (StDe, roughly "Old One-Land") is a mythic landmass prominent in Deysachni religion. It is said Adeysa was the land created at the dawn of time, which humans inhabited in the ancient age where most Deysachni myths are set. The rise of Sasatanl'c religion lead to the destruction of Adeysa, an event which marked the split between Deysachin's mythic pre-history and semi-mythic early history. Adeysa is considered by historians to be purely mythic, a Fall-From-Grace allegorical device representing an simplistic idyllic age prior to a complex modern one. The Modhes hold that all of Attu consists of the fragments of Adeysa. The period of Deysachni history following Adeysa is referred to as Sasatn'a.

Creation & Origin Myths

Upon the success of the creation of the world in the year -3907, the grain god Ghusuhr proclaimed that a celebration was in order, to which the rest of the gods agreed. The celebration in the heavens lasted for a month, and on the fifth day of the fifth week, Ghusur, in a state of deep inebriation, urinated upon the entirety of Adeysa, creating all of the many bogs. Upon waking up hungover the next day, the rest of the gods discovered what Ghusur had done, and sentenced him to be flogged for 62 years. This story is given as explanation of why agriculture was not invented until 63 years after humanity was created, as Ghusuhr needed a year to recover from his wounds.

The creation of the first humans followed this, an event on which accounts differ. All save for Pseudo-N'shadn claim that humanity was created as a group, with Pseudo-N'shadn's differing account (that the gods first made a single man as a test, then produced a group, throwing the first into such a jealous rage that he was banished) likely being a later addition by Mn'krapanti to connect their mythos to history. Ynnregan, Moln'enrkai, and Re'kam Rey'd state that humanity was created as group of both sexes, and were told by each of the gods the nature and purpose of living, while Turpulis, Yiunger The Elder, and Ylamnyo write of only man being created at first, with women created later as a means of reproduction. It is unclear which origin story is the older of the two, as both occur in near equal number across the historical record, but Modhes scholars side with the former.

Following the creation of humanity came "a lifetime" (63 years in the Deysachni Calendar) of nomadism and hunter-gatherer lifestyles, during which each of the gifts of the gods were discovered by humanity, last of which being agriculture. The invention of agriculture led to "two lifetimes" (106 years in the calendar) of local small scale farming communities. It was said that at the end of these three lifetimes, in the year -3738, came the formation of the first civilization, when a dispute between two farmers, Yul and Mur, could not be resolved, and as both men were good friends and unwilling to fight over it, they continued arguing, bringing the rest of people of the area into it. A man named Ctestos, who was not well at farming but was considered wise, mediated a compromise among the two men, resolving the dispute peacefully. The people of the area would then continually come to Ctestos to settle their grievances instead of resorting to simply violence. Ctestos is thus considered to have been the first tribe leader, and the event as the formation of the first society.

Such events are said to have occured across Adeysa, leading to the slow emergence of a network of citystates, connected by a loose priesthood. The farthest back any geneology stretches is to -3641 (Ysgreldsah of Hv'shea), and the earliest legends are set in the mid -4th millenium.

Fall

In the year -2027, a man named Siossanact awoke from a dream, head cloudy, with visions of a great cataclysm and divine truth. The expireance lead him to become a priest, possibly of the deity Djeirhawdrhu, and chase the fermenting visions of the revelation he received. Thirty years to the day, he finally came to understand the dream, and proclaimed to the world Enlightenment. What is was precisely Siossanact preached is highly debated, with a wide range of varying accounts of the event. The general agreed-upon points among scholars however were that the status quo of civilization was not the only way, and that rather than slavishly devoting oneself to the gods, religion should exist with some sort of guiding philosophy. Though his words were initially ignored, they slowly gathered traction, leading to a rapid diversification of religious belief. For the first time since the dawn of civlization, mankind began to philosophize, questioning the universe and their place within it.

By the time that Siossanact was an old man, these new philosophies had spread across Adeysa, and had begun to clash with one another. Local rulers began to crack down on these movements, and some called even for Siossanact's head. Sehme'urhae, the high king of the Alhbahr Confederacy, led an army to capture the prophet, and upon doing so had him chained up and burned at the stake. Some variations of the myth however claim that Sehme'urhae instead had him beheaded, upon which Siossanact ascended and became one with Djeirhawdrhu.

This did little however to stop the turmoil, and Sehme'urhae was himself ripped apart by an angry mob days later. The religious conflicts began to spill into the political world, with local lords taking sides and turning upon one another. The societal network underlying Adeysa became a wildfire, allowing for the rapid dissemination of thought and quick movement of armies.

Foiena Seisancah

By -1907, all of Adeysa was engulfed by religious conflict, and war became common. Foiena Seisancah enters the mythos at this time, though the details of who she was and what she did vary wildly across the historical narrative. In most versions, she was a warlord, typically of common origin, though she is at times given as the heiress to a small or powerful regional dynasty, or the great-granddaughter of Siossanact, or the bastard daughter of Sehme'urhae. She is in all accounts a devout follower of Siossanact, though this following ranges from her as a zealot warrior, as a priest who took up arms, or as the head of a peasant revolt. The throughline of her importance is that she, in some manner, destroyed Adeysa. Ynnregan writes that Foiena led her armies in a chaotic conquest of all the lands, and in doing so caused the ruin of every previously existing societal structure, plunging all the land into a dark age. This account is corroborated by Moln'enrkai, though he writes of Seicancah's armies not as a conqueroring force but a maurading horde. Yiunger and Rey'd however put the event in more esoteric terms, framing it as a singular cosmological event, wherein by means of some ill-thought ritual Foiena destroyed the whole of civilization at once. The Modhes canon goes farther, alleging that Foiena's wars caused Adeysa to literally shatter into a wide arrey of islands. This was, prior to the Calming, understood to be a purely symbolic device, representing how the previously harmonious pre-state world was destroyed by the rise of the state level society and Sasatanl'c religion. Post-calming however, scholars have begun to lend credence to the idea of this as a literal or semi-literal event, and of Adeysa as being either represenative of or allegorical to some lost historical land.

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