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=== Registry and Maintenance of Shrines ===
[[File:ASA Archives in Vakrestrender.jpg|thumb|Archives in [[Vakrestrender]]]]
The ASA primary purpose is to act as a registry and assist in maintaining shrines. It is heavily expressed and stated that the ASA does not enforce doctrine or assist in enforcing doctrine for Akuan Shrine authorities for Akuan countries. Maintenance originally only was to provide finance aid towards the shrines, however after 1960 the ASA started to also provide material and skilled labor for shrines. The need for materials and skilled labor, is a result that shrines require specialized craft and materials prepared in traditional Akuan methods. The registry of shrines was formally held in the archives in [[Aikthudr'zhur]], holding the location, name and the inhabitant of the shrine. Original method of registering was to request local Akuan community leaders, such as brewmasters to fill out a form and mail it to the ASA offices. This method was of course, highly ineffective as forms was lost in transition and frequently issue arose that it was filled out in a different form of [[Nys'tat'en]] all together resulting in the shrine being unreadable for scholars at the archives. Another issue was storage, not just in controlling the environment to prevent the paper from rotting but it quickly became unorganized due to the sheer volume sent to the archives monthly and this issue only multiplied with disorganization. As such in 1940, to combat the issues rising the ASA organized volunteer achieves on a regional level to organize the local shrines in the registry and then sent a more completed list in Aikkian [[Nys'tat'en]]. Then the regional archives would send the translated registry list of shrines to the main achieves in [[Aikthudr'zhur]]. The new method greatly helped with organization, and only was recently changed in 2007 when the shrine archives was digitalized and streamlined. The new method relied on regional archives to digitized the records, and then the records could be translated in Valkyr [[Nys'tat'en]] instead of just Aikkian [[Nys'tat'en]]. Valkyr Nys'tat'en being more widely understood through Valkyr media than Aikkian Nys'tat'en which was more regional form in Nys'tat'en of [[Novaris]].
=== Genealogy Project and Family Registry ===
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The registry and genealogy project has been digitalized along side the registry of the shrines. However, access to the digital archives are only given out to trusted research institutions, universities and ASA volunteers.
=== Conferences ===
The ASA hosts number of conferences and debates on number of subjects in relation to [[Akuanism]] primary relating to Akuan history. However to maintain rules of strict apolitical, debates between Akuan forms and theology are heavily regulated or outright strictly banned. Conferences are, by requirement only held in Akuan majority countries, usually [[Akuan Democracy]] such as [[Vakrestrender]], [[Aikthudr'zhur]] or [[Ma Moku]]. Which resulted in a heated debate in itself, as a millions of Akuanists live in [[Akuan District|Akuan Districts]] all across the world and thus, unable to attend such conferences. To help counteract the disparity, the ASA and in more often than not the [[Bjørn Trust]] will fund professors and scholars to attend conferences. Raising concerns of [[Bjørn dynasty|Bjørn Family]]'s influence in the ASA despite Bjørn's family claims of neutrally in providing funds for the ASA.
In a surprising turnabout the ASA announced in 2023 that they will host a conference in [[Aikthudr'zhur]] which will include debate panels about theology, political form of Akuanism and different forms of Akuanism. ''[Cowlass' Note: RP will come first, article second.]''
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