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{{Infobox religion|icon=Paxism Symbol.png|leader= [[Supreme Magister]] [[Tawak Mudawaheen|Tawak VII]]|anno=[[Common Era calendar]]|origin=Kingdom of Akil (modern day [[Akas Akil]], [[Ashura]], [[Packilvania]])|number_of_places_of_worship=980,000|denominations={{unbulleted list|Yehudism|Obedism|Ipsitism|Sohadekism (Melkezedekism)|Madvinism (Melkezedekism)}}|followers=1000000000|belief=Monotheism|name=Paxism|regions={{unbulleted list|[[Packilvania]]|[[Alvan Empire]]|[[Arcturia]]|[[Aurora]]}}|founded={{unbulleted list|Original (time immemorial)|Modern (2036 BCE)|Yehudism (400 BCE)|Obedism (670)|Ipsitism (740 CE)|Melkezedekism (980 CE)|Sohadekism (1150 CE)|Madvinism (1760 CE)}}|founder={{unbulleted list|None (time immemorial)|[[Prophet Besmali]] (Modern Paxism in {{Start date and age|-2036}})|Prophet King [[Suleiman of Yehudah]] (Yehudism in {{Start date and age|-400}})|Prophet King Obed III (Obedism in {{Start date and age|670}})|Prophet Ipsit (Ipsitism in {{Start date and age|740}})|Prophet King [[Melkezedek the Great]] (
{{Paxism}}
[[Paxism]] is a monotheistic religion that originated in [[Yasteria]]. It was formed from the beliefs of iron age civilisations in an area coextensive with the [[Administrative divisions of Packilvania|modern-day Packilvanian province]] of [[Ashura]] by [[Prophet Besmali]] (in the 2nd millennium BCE) who wrote or inspired the first and most widely accepted of the [[Writings of Paxism]], the ''Ichtmar''. In the late 10th century BCE, [[Suleiman of Yehudah]] commissioned Jerome of Damaclion to consolidate texts that emerged after the ''Ichtmar'' into a single text known as the ''Vagumar'', which was adopted by the Council of [[Adrien]].
King Obed II of [[Bingol]] added to the ''Vagumar'' through Writings known as the ''Haagemar'' which led to the invasion of his kingdom by [[Iktan the Devout]] who founded the [[Iktanite dynasty]] and [[Packilvania]]. Prophet Ipstit from the [[Alva|Alvan Empire]] travelled to Packilvania where he combined [[Ayalism|Ayalist]] beliefs with Paxism in a writing known as the ''Mahimavan Agripurana''. [[Melkezedek the Great]] commissioned the ''Bas Magdamar'' which established the [[Magisterium of Paxism]] and closed the canon of Paxist scripture.
Different Paxist sects follow different texts. Broadly speaking, they agree that [[Noi]] is the creator of the universe and all that are in it. She created the [[Esma]] (spiritual beings) and [[Species|sentient beings]]. An Esma by the name of Borg wanted to be worshiped as she was and so led the sentient beings of Urth and some Esma away. She endowed [[Pax]] with great power to defeat him and seal him behind a metaphysical prison known as the Jovian Gate, which is believed to be under the [[Memorial of the Jovian Gate]] in [[Akas Akil]], the oldest and most sacred site of Paxism. Paxists believed that the spirits of sentient beings will return to Noi and become part of Her Hivemind after death if they follow [[Assimilation]] (ritual and moral philosophy of Paxism, the highest path of which is [[Martyrdom in Paxism|martyrdom]]).
For most Paxists, the highest temporal religious leader is the [[Supreme Magister]] currently [[Tawak VII]]. The Magisterium serves as the government of Paxism for religious matters in most of the world, implementing, legislating and adjudicating the [[canon law of Paxism]]. The oldest clerical offices in Paxism are the propherhood (which is practically moribund) and [[Priesthood in Paxism|priesthood]]. Paxism is the state religion of [[Packilvania]] and [[Drakkengard]], and it is a minority religion in other countries such as [[Free Pax States]]. It has over 1 billion adherents (who are concentrated in Packilvania), making it the biggest religion in the world.
== Etymology and terminology ==
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Every week on a Friday, Paxists are expected to gather at a Temple for prayer and recitation. Depending on the society and sect people may be separated by gender, age or status. In Madvinism, and Sohadekism a complex system of separation exists between men and women, the old, middle aged and children, as well as different species. In Yehudism and Ipsitism, no divisions exists and people simply enter the temple as they see fit, though in the latter it is generally encouraged families enter together, led by the Head of the family.
===Fasting (''Rudamin'')===
Once a year in the month of Ishtihan starting on the
===Offering and charity (''Zakat'')===
Paxists are expected to give offerings in money, kind or their labor to temples and to the poor. Almsgiving in particular is strongly encouraged by the Holy Scriptures. As a result of this philosophy, Packilvania has the highest rate of non-state foreign aid in the world. One of the largest charitable foundations established under this practice is the [[Bedon Family Foundation]] which was formed in 2023 by [[Saga of Tynam]] and [[Thumim V]]. Ipsitites follow what is known as "Charity by the Blade", a practice in which labor may be offered in the form of taking up the duty to defend an Ipsitite Temple or community. This is most notably seen in the [[Third Suvani War]], in which the Karkati Brigades are comprised mostly of Volunteers giving such charity in order to protect Ipsitite Communities from incursion by [[Ayalism|Ayalist]] or Secularist Forces.
===Diet (''Kisher'')===
In Paxism certain foods are forbidden because they are seen as dirty and unholy. The meat of reptiles, all insects except grasshoppers and consumption of blood or dead animals (i.e., animals that died due to disease or other strange causes not intended or known by the person consuming the animal) are forbidden. Animals must be slaughtered with a sharp knife, cleanly and swiftly and with a blessing before they can be regarded as holy and suitable for consumption. Ipsitites are notably exempt from some of these restrictions, allowing for animals to be slaughtered in any which way so long as a prayer of thanks is given after eating, and the animal's bones are picked clean, with Ipsitite doctrine heavily discouraging the wastage of food.
===Marriage (''Zawaj'')===
Marriage in Paxism is believed to reflect the sacred relationship between Noi and sentient beings more broadly. They believe it represents the intimate relationship between the creator and created. Furthermore, they believe that marriage provides the comfort, security, provision, mutual support, and personal fulfillment that enables people to live joyful and purposeful lives. They believe that marriage is as much an agreement and commitment to love, devotion, trust and self-sacrifice as it is an institution for strengthening society and enabling stability within the community. Many Paxists also believe that marriage is intended to provide a safe space for children to be had and raised, in which values about being a good citizen of the Urth, a responsible member of society, and a fulfilled and thoughtful individual can be imparted. They believe that marriage allows the perpetuation of society and the values and principles that underpin it to be purveyed especially where those values arise from Paxism.
Nevertheless, there are deep seated divergences on whom, when and how people ought to get married. Differences can exist between and within sects. Some Paxists believe that marriage can only exist between a cisman and a ciswoman. Others believe that marriage can extend to people who identify and express and men and women, regardless of their assigned gender at birth. Others believe that marriages between people of the same self-identified gender should be permissible. Arguments for and against who can get married to whom are based on diverse readings of the Bas Magdamar and interpretations of scripture over thousands of years.
For instance in the Sorceriocracy of Tharan, which was a nation that broadly identified as Paxist that was located in modern day Packilvania in the province of Fidakar that existed before the 7th century CE, heteresexual marriages were not permissible. In fact, only homosexuals could get married with arrangements between couples of different genders to have and raise children. Contemporaneous to them was the Sorceriocracy of Rahal (also broadly identifying as a Paxist nation) which permitted equal rights to marriage for people of varying gender expressions and identities without limitation. The modern Magisterium in Packilvania believes that these were heretical nations practicing anathemised magical and immoral cults with vaguely Paxist aesthetics. Nevertheless, this shows that opinions about the gender identity of people who can get married was never historically fixed or constant among people who identified as Paxist.
There have also been debates about who has the capacity to engage in marriage. In some societies that identified as Paxist, it was appropriate for people who would be considered children by modern standards to get married. It was also appropriate to coerce people into marriage or to take multiple marital partners or to engage in extramarital relationships such as concubinage. The boundaries on where physical intimacy lay were also obscured. Some societies believed that married men could have physically intimate relationships with other males in the context of friendships and the same was true in some societies for women. Some societies believed that it was appropriate for parents or tribal elders to select marital partners for their children. In some societies it was believed that women had no right to refuse a marriage proposal made by either the first suitor approved by their parents or by some tribal doctrine.
The version of Paxism that is taught by the Magisterium which encourages heterosexual marriages has only existed since the 11th century. The teaching that polygamous marriages should be discouraged except in exceptional circumstances has only existed since the 17th century and even then prominent people in society such as aristocrats and royals have flouted this doctrine, making it difficult for the Magisterium to enforce its teaching on this issue. Modern thinking about self awareness and bodily autonomy is progressively shifting attitudes about whether it is appropriate for parents to select marital partners and coerce their children to get married to them, with some people in the rural areas and among aristocratic circles in Packilvania continuing the practice despite growing condemnation of it by leading voices and a growing number of people in the Magisterium. With Paxism's spread to other parts of the world the heterocentric marital formulation is being challenged within Magisterial ranks.
===Clerical authority (''Imamiyat'')===
{{Main|Magisterium of Paxism}}
Most Paxists believe that there exists clerical authority. Yehudism believes that any recognised [[Priesthood in Paxism|priest]] may train priests under them and both Ipsitism and Yehudism believes that women, queer and non-felines may serve as clerics. Melkezedists (Madvinists, Sohadekists etc.) believe that religious authority emanates from the [[Magisterium of Paxism|Magisterium]]. Thus, Magisters are regarded as having the sole authority to determine religious interpretation and appoint priests and recognize prophets and scholars.
===Atonement (''Kipur'')===
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Ipsitism purely endorses the latter, and does not accept the possibility of atoning for sins without strife, with it only being possible through being felled while in service to the Faith or performing a pilgrimage, with the only other option being through the sacrifice of your own life to Pax via suicide by drowning, though such a practice is increasing uncommon.
===Pilgrimage (''Uj'')===
Paxists are encouraged to make pilgrimage to at least one of the three holiest sites of the Paxist religion if they are able to: the Temple of the Remembrance (i.e., [[Memorial of the Jovian Gate]]) in [[Akas Akil]], [[Temple of the Restoration]] in [[Adrien]] and the [[Temple of the Authority]] in [[Bingol]]. Pilgrimage involves prayer, fasting, cleansing, sacrifice etc. The cities of Adrien and Akas Akil are off-limits to non-Paxists and the Temple Mount in Bingol on which the Temple of the Authority is located is forbidden to non-Paxists. While historically there have been less Ipsitite Pilgrimages on account that Ipsitism demands pilgrims cross the land only by foot and the sea only by boat, Ipsite pilgrims tend to be highly respected within their communities for undertaking such a task. [[Melkezedekism]] believes that pilgrimage must be done in the month of Waseem (July).
===Mourning and burial (''Jinaza'')===
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==== Exorcism (''Xitarishme'') ====
Paxists believe that evil spirits as well as the spirits of the dead can haunt places or people and cause destruction, sickness or misfortune. Thus, they believe that through sacrifice, baptism and prayer, those places or people can be exorcised of the spirits contained there. The Magisterium does not believe that evil spirits can cause sickness, but it does believe that they can spread lies and temptation and that through prayer, and fasting can be cast out.
==== Glossolalia & xenolalia (''Tamkasirunhivishme'') ====
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* '''Cessationists''' believe that Charisma are real but that Noi no longer pours them out to mortals. They might believe that some prophets post-Melkezedek Prophets are real usually Prophet Sohadek.
* '''Continuationists''' believe that Charisma are real and that Noi continues to pour them out to mortals.
* '''Mythologists''' believe that the Charisma are not real but that they were symbolic metaphors for Nois attributes and were used to convey lessons. Some suggest that because the scriptures arose in a primitive society for which scientific and empirical explanations for the changes in the world was lacking, mythologies about pseudo-magical or supernatural capabilities allegedly imparted by Noi helped to give people hope, or to enable charlatans to expropriate people's wealth or to exercise social influence.
== Holy sites (''leSih leHalaal'')==
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!Holiday
!Packilvanian name
!CE Date
!PLC Date
!Purpose
!Observed by
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|New Year's Day and Start of the Month of Fasting
|''LuYam alu-Oor luNav''
|1 January
|1 Ishahan
|Celebrates the start of the new year
|All
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|''luYam aluRumadin''
|31 January
|31 Ishahan
|Celebrates the end of the month of fasting
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|''LuYam a-Melkezedek muBas''
|21 March
|21 Odihan
|Celebrates the adoption of the ''[[Writings of Paxism|Bas Magdamar]]'' by the Council of Bingol as well as the formation of the [[Magisterium of Paxism]] (non-historical)
|All Melkezedekists
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|''LuYam a-Madvin''
|17 April
|17 Jahar
|Celebrates the proclamation by Prophet Madvin that a Feline Sultan would rule over Packilvania
|Madvinist Melkezedekists
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|''LuYam a-Besmali''
|27 May
|27 Subal
|Celebrates the writing of the ''[[Writings of Paxism|Ichtmar]]'' by Prophet Besmali (non-historical)
|All
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|''LuYam a-Suleiman a-Yehudah''
|19 July
|19 Waseem
|Celebrates the adoption of the ''[[Writings of Paxism|Vagumar]]'' by the Council of Adrien (non-historical)
|All
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|''luYam alu-Uj''
|31 July
|31 Waseem
|Celebrates the end of the month of pilgrimage
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|''luWaloofiya'' ''ameTashiyashalvatan''
|9 August
|9 Hayaad
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|''LuYam aluShalvayat''
|14 October
|14 Kharaat
|Celebrates the day Pax defeated Borg and sealed him behind the Jovian Gate (non-historical)
|All
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|''LuYam a-Sohadek''
|8 December
|8 Dhuyeel
|Celebrates the proclamation by Prophet Sohadek that a Sultan would reunite the realms of Zubrayn and bring Paxist rule over Packilvania (non-historical)
|Sohadekist Melkezedekists
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|''LuYam a-Iktan muSlamiya''
|16 December
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|Celebrates the founding the first Packilvanian state by Iktan the Devout. (non-historical)
|All Melkezedekists
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=== End of the Fast ===
The Day of the End of the Fast celebrates the end of the first month of the year, Ishahan, which is characterised by mandatory fasting for all adherents of Paxism. Fasting encourages one to focus on the divine things and to be sympathetic to the lest fortunate. The day of the end of fasting is characterised by people giving more Salah than they normally do during the day. In Paxist majority communities shops tend to close early or the day can be a public holiday in which most work is stopped. The holiday is characterised by a large evening feast with one's family or community where there is sharing of gifts. People are encouraged to give gifts or alms to the less fortunate. Various traditions have arisen such as the consumption of special treats such as various Central Yasterian festive sweets or decorating ones house with bright lights and colourful ornaments.
=== End of the Pilgrimage ===
The Day of the End of the Pilgrimage celebrated the last day of the month in which mandatory pilgrimage is permitted. It is required that pilgrims to the Temple of the Restoration, Temple of the Authority and the Memorial of the Jovian Gate partake in a variety of rituals to mark the conclusion of their journey and their preparation for a return to their places of origin. This includes prayer, ritual ablution, gathering for collective worship and listening to homilies by teachers of the word. A unique tradition that each pilgrim must perform is to burn an offering of grain to the almighty in thanks for the protection and strength to accomplish the Pilgrimage. Those who did not attend the Pilgrimage normally celebrate by attending a Mijhalis (gathering) at their local Majhid (temple) where the Imam (priest) burns the offering of grain on their collective behalf.
=== Veneration of the Martyrs ===
The [[Assimilation#Martyrdom|Veneration of the Martyrs]] is often regarded as a solemn occasion (compared to the end of the Fast and the end of the Pilgrimage which are festive holidays). The Veneration of the Martyrs is characterised by the solemn calls to prayer from the high Minarets of many Majhids. It is characterised by a solemn procession carrying artefacts belonging or ascribed to a local, national or international martyr. Normally, artefacts belonging to a Martyr such as their hair etc., are kept safely in a Shrine or a Majhid under the protection of a Makhees, an Imam or other official. People will normally wear black, attend a solemn gathering where there will be no singing or rejoicing. The day is designed to encourage reflection of the role of martyrdom, asceticism, self sacrifice and holiness. Thus, people are encouraged to abstain from physical intimacy, meat, leavened bread, alcohol, and sweets. Adherents will normally attend a Mijhalis but the Liturgy will be based on a Martyr normally Martyrs related to the area.
=== Salvation ===
The day of Salvation (Shalvayat) is one of the holiest days because it celebrates the pinnacle of the Eschatology of Paxism I.e., the 1st defeat of Borg by Pax and the 2nd and final defeat of Borg. This ceremony will entail the lighting of candles in the evening with prayer in one's home with one's family. The day normally entails people writing their sins on some parchment or paper and burning it in a fire. This is symbolic of the fact that the defeat of Borg also reflects the spiritual defeat of the inclination towards sin in the individual. People are encouraged to confess their sins to a loved one, fellow believer or religious leader. Often people without access to a Makhees or an Imam will form little groups where their confess their sins to one another. On this day, the one listen to the sin is required to simply acknowledge it by saying "You are forgiven". There has been substantial debate among jurists about whether these confession comprise valid and admissible testimony in legal cases concerning the [[canon law of Paxism]].
== Population and distribution ==
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|18%
|9,000,000
|-
|[[Allegheny]]
|67%
|62,189,400
|-
|[[Emberwood Coast]]
|14%
|7,000, 000
|-
|[[Staynes]]
|1.1%
|1,713,479
|}
==Notes==
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