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'''Thaerism''', also known as the '''Thaerist Faith''' is a [[wikipedia:Monotheism|monotheistic]] [[wikipedia:Religion|religion]] based on the teachings and wisdom of Thaer. Its adherents, known as Thaerists, believe in a single deity (Thaer), who passed on his teachings to the Prophets; Matilda, Eldwin and Tybalt. Through his guidance to life on [[Urth]] with prophets, it is taught that Thaer is all-existing and all-knowing. He is not depicted through incarnate being but through colour. It is one of the major world religions with over a billion worldwide followers with various branches such as '''Traditional Thaerism''', '''Reformist Thaerism''' (colloquially ''Valerian Thaerism''; ''Vaerism''), and '''[[Mauism]]''' in [[Polynesian Union|PolynesianGreater Oan]] nations like [[the Oan Isles]] and Jus tribes in Justelvard.

=== Spread to PolynesiaGreater Oa ===

In the 8th to 10th Centuries CE, proselytes from mainland Aurora introduced Thaerism to the [[Polynesian Union|PolynesianGreater Oan Islands]]. In the 11th century CE, the King Ahua of Toka who became EmperorRangitanga-a-te-Moana [[Ahua the Great]] of PolynesiaGreater Oa established a mid-way between Thaerist purists and Folk religion traditionalists that integrated their ideas and beliefs. This new PolynesianGreater Oan branch of Thaerism, called [[Mauism]], evolved separately from the Thaerist sects on mainland Aurora. Shaped by the political and social realities of the PolynesianGreater Oan 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 PolynesianGreater Oan nations like [[The Oan Isles|the Oan Isles.]]

Today, mainland and insular branches of Thaerism are barely comparable. Some of these differences including belief in 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 PolynesianGreater Oan people, who granted the Ahua clan the right to rule over PolynesiaGreater Oa 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 PolynesianGreater Oan 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[[Rangitanga-a-te-Moana]].