Noi

Noi is the sole deity of the religion of Paxism.

Origins and history

The first written evidence of the name Noi is a stole stele discovered in 1945 in the city of Kijal in modern-day Ashura in Packilvania. The stele suggests that the name had been in use as the name for the deity for centuries. Scientists at the University of Bingol carbon dated the artefact to around 3000 BCE. It is one of the very few examples of a primitive writing system in the world. Historians are not certain whether the name referred only to one deity or even the same deity known as Noi today.

The first concrete evidence of the name Noi referring to the same deity associated with modern-day Paxism in one of the original manuscripts of the Ichtmar, which is one of the Writings of Paxism that is believed to have been written by Prophet Besmali or one of his followers between 2000 and 2100 BCE. The Ichtmar suggests that it was based on oral teachings from the tribes of Central Yasteria thus it can be reasonably assumed that the belief in the deity Noi can be traced back even further. Scientists and historians have not unequivocally determined how far back this belief goes.

Creative evolutionist scholars (people who combine modern science with Paxist teachings) such as Tolmud Olwahad and Shahdan Wasayan suggest that belief in Noi whether by that name or a different name could date back to before the evolution of many modern sentient beings. Scholars such as Dewal Mudwahad had suggested that these links are tenuous. Although there is some evidence of proto-spirituality among pre-modern sentient beings, it is virtually impossible to determine based on scientific evidence whether the deity they worshiped (if at all it was a deity and not some ancestor) was in fact the same deity as Noi. Nevertheless, the theory is highly popular and is widely taught in Universities in Packilvania as a potential theory.

According to commentator Qayeed Kahad, this theory is popular among Creative Evolutionists because it presupposes that belief in Noi is intrinsic to sentience or exists in some corrupted form through other religions. He especially argued that scholars whose work focused on drawing links between religions with a view to displaying the Universalism of Paxism were susceptible to believing this theory such as Lord Kilian Asul who developed the theory of Yasterian Heroism which aims to unify the religions of Paxism, Vayanism and Ademarism under the same largely Paxist lens.