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.

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.

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