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=== Enshrinement ===
The act of Enshrinement, is the process of transferring spirits to a shrine. The process of moving spirits is consider to be one of the most delicate processes a brewmaster can do, as not to accidently offend the spirit while being transferred. The process can take anywhere from three weeks to four months, as the process requires walking from the old shrine to the new shrine carrying a series of backpacks containing the spirit's foci and belongs while a group of maidens are singing smoothing songs to the spirit. In incident where the shrine was destroyed in natural disaster, the shrine has to be rebuilt on the site and a special ritual of enshrinement takes place. Which only takes a few days to preform properly, not including the time to construction the rebuilt shrine.
==== Enshrinement of Saints, Notable People and Significant Figures ====
When comes to the death of notable figures, such as local town heroes, historical figures and people of notable or extreme talent and skill. The general belief is that people of such worth, will not be satisfied or be able to acknowledge the traditional Akuan funeral. Their spirits will stay in their work place, such a blacksmith spirit will stay in smithery. Usually, when a Akuan dies, their body stays with the spirit until cremation however instead, with these kinds of figures their spirits leaves the body and travels to their workplace to work on their craft.
As such, when they die the brewmasters and maidens take the corpse of the figure, wrapped in white cloth scented with flowers. The brewmasters carry the corpse and while the maidens sing songs to draw the spirit out of its workplace, to travel with them to the cremation spot. They burn the bodies at the site, then take the ashes to either place it in the shrine or build the shrine around the ashes. For example, taking the ash vase and then curving a stone pillar around the vase otherwise it is built in the traditional shrine status.
==== Incase of a violence Shrine destruction. ====
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