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In the 8th to 10th Centuries CE, proselytes from mainland Aurora introduced Thaerism to the [[Polynesian Union|Polynesian Islands]]. In the 11th century CE, the Chief of a major tribe, Ahua established a mid-way between Thaerist purists and Folk religion traditionalists that integrated their ideas and beliefs. This new Polynesian branch of Thaerism, called [[Mauism]], evolved separately from the Thaerist sects on mainland Aurora. Shaped by the political and social realities of the Polynesian island nations, it gradually drifted from mainland beliefs. The ideological tenets that would arise from the later Valerian and Reformation movements did not make it to Polynesian nations like [[The Oan Isles|the Oan Isles.]]
Today, mainland and insular branches of Thaerism are barely comparable. Some of these differences including belief is supernatural spiritual beings which act on behalf of or against the divine law of Thaer (Atea) to bring goodness or ruin on humanity, respectively. One of them is Maui, who is believed to be the Angelic Protector of the Polynesian people, who granted the Ahua clan the right to rule over Polynesia forever. Moreover, they believed that souls are distinguishable, rational, and efficacious in the Luminiferous Aether. This had massive consequences in that it established a basis for eschatological beliefs that wildly differed from Mainland Thaerism such as prophecies of the end of and reconstitution of the mortal universe with the effect of the expurgation of Dark Angelic beings and evil from the mortal universe. Mainland Thaerists believed that many of these beliefs were heretical
Mauist scholars, spiritual leaders and fundamentalists have rejected the name "Mauism" and consider themselves Insular Thaerists. Thus there are ethno-centric and ecumenical elements of Mauist belief. The ethno-centric concepts relate to Maui, the line of Ahua the Great and the Polynesian people. The ecumenical concepts encompass the nature of creation, the nature of Thaer, the eschatology of the Universe and so on. Thus, Mauist teachings are considered heretical by Mainland Thaerist churches. The proliferation of Mauist/Insular Thaerist ecumenical beliefs in Morstaybishlia particularly was squashed to oblivion. Mauism was especially persecuted in Justelvard as it provided a political rival to the Morstaybishlian High King in the form of the Emperor of Polynesia.
===13th Century Reformation===
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