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(Created page with "Category:Hlenderia Category:Religion 300px|thumb|right|'The Account of Saint Kwalesa' on a surviving 16th-century manuscript. The '''Acts of the Saints''' (Hlenderian: ܟܫܕܽ ܝܠܟܶܥܟܬܾ ''translit. "Kasdu Yalkakati"'', literally "Saint-Tales") is the most widely known book of scripture in the Hlenderian religion. Compiled in stages over the course of the 16th century, Acts of the Saints records oral traditio...") |
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The collection of accounts take place over a period of at least 1500 years. The oldest oral tradition, ''"Saint Chobal Rides the Orca"'', is a [[Mūni]] story believed to have originated in the 1st century BCE. The most recent, ''"Saint [[Ademarism|Addi-mor]]'s Great Realization"'', is a syncretic [[Vrotri]] story combining aspects of Ademarism and local religion, and was only a century old when Acts was recorded. Twenty-four of the tales included in Acts take place in what is modern Hlenderia; the other six take place in what is now [[Joralesia]], and are important for religious scholars as they preserve a record of life on Hayaneste before colonization.
Hlenderia's national motto, "Many houses, all alike in dignity", is derived from Acts' most famous story, ''"Ramis and Yulveni's Love"''. This story, which opens with the line "Two houses, both alike in dignity", depicts two teens from feuding families who fall in love. After their accidental deaths, their families are reconciled. This tale is a local variation of the "star-crossed lovers" folklore theme, common across Urth.
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