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The religionVatoral is founded on a balance between the four elements - fire, water, air, earth - that are believed to be inhabited by spirits, who foundatedcreated the world as it isthemselves. The balance is basedmade onof opposite and complementary forces. Major opposite forces: fire is opposed to water, as air is opposed to earth, which arewhile the majorminor oppositions,opposites asare earth and water, as well as fire and air. areThe secondarycomplementary opposites,forces whileare earth and fire, also air and water, are complementing each others.

There are two attributes to these elements : earth and air are "mineral", as they are staticmotionless and completedcompact, water and fire are "organic", as they are moving and formatingliving.

AreIn relatedaddition to the four"natural elements", exist two "human elements" : the "body", linkedrelated to earth and water, the "spirit", linkedrelated to air and fire. It is saidbelieved that humans were madecreated from a mix of earth and water, as modelled by the mud, andof werea madeswamp, alivethen bybecame infusingalive themby a breathe of fire and air, whichinfused gaveinto themtheir ahead, creating their mind.

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At one moment, an anomaly made one of the spirits desiring to be above others and be the unique spirit among all. That entity trapped those into the ground, the ocean, the air and the the underworld, making the world of Urth alive. The earthquake and landslides, the tempest, the waves, the forest fires, and all natural phenomenons, are the spirits trying to escape the elements they've had been trapped into. By animating elements, they made them ininto opposite or complementary forces.

To punish the egoistic spirit, the four others transformed them into an element that, if animated, wouldn't have any power and couldn't do anything against themdangerous, thereformtherefore turned into a single humansentient. That humansentient individual was made by a bit of each element, as hethey couldn't be a unique and pure essence, therefore losing its power. As to be sure to lower its abilities, hethey waswere divided into two humanssentients completely opposed by nature, a wanmale and a womanfemale. Since then, that spirit tries to obtain power again by making menmales and womenfemales attracted by each other, thus populating Urth with humanssentients, which are multiple forms of himself. It is believed that if humanssentients want to reproduce, it can only be explained by the condemned spirit desperate to get a revenge on the elemental spirits.

In Ayaupia, people identify by gathering into a group sharing the same character, forming into a tribe. That tribe has to embodies the elements and character it identifies to, therefore using a wood or stone carved [[totem]] to depict them. Each aspect of the totem indicates something about the people rallying under themit.

Every follower has to pray two times in a week, where they have to first praise the elements they were attributed to, then praise those left other, and finally praise them to unify into one pure element. This comprise the four natural elements and the two human elements. This is done while sitting on a sheet of wood whithwith the religious symbol drawn on the visible side. These prayers are done at home and at any moment of the day, from the morning to the evening.

If a majority of ayaupians are still religious, only a minority follows the prophets verses. Most of the believers consider the religion as a philosopy and use the elemental balance as a way to answer existential questions, or to succeed in everyday life.

Psychiatric illnesses were often during a long time attributed to the unability ofto findingfind personal unity, and persons who were suffering mental issues were considered as condemned to "hell" and lost forever, not able to accomplish themselves.

Homosexuals and other non-heterosexuals were seen as abnormal as they couldn't reproduce, and as the spirit inhabiting each individual is determined to perpetuates himself by reproducing with opposite sex, they were creatures where the spirit couldn't find a way and got stuck, thus they were considered as "spiritless" or soulless beings. This is why a lot were considered inferiors beings or even non-beings, and there was an urge to avoid them by any mean, because approaching or killing them would give a curse, as being unable to find unity and eternal purity. Although, Asconism is distinguishable by a radically different view, in opposition to Palayonism and Nestonism - homosexuals are unique and rare beings who escaped the spirit's will by not being able to reproduce, which is here seen as an advantage, completely freed from the spirit they are more able to find internal unity. They are respected and popular, even praised, possessing highly ranked roles in society.