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== Etymology ==
"Vatoral" comes from the proto-ayaupian "Vatel", meaning "element". As Vatoral is the ayaupian name, foreign countries sometimes call it "Vatoralism".
== Elemental balance ==
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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=== Origins ===
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 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 had been trapped into. By animating elements, they made them into 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 dangerous, therefore 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.
There has been a debate during centuries between scholars to determine if the first sentient person ever was a feline, an elf or a human. The three branches of Vatoral ; Nestonism, Palayonism and Asconism, tried to give their own answers.
[[File:Vatoral Religion Fundamental Scheme.png|200px|thumb|right|A schematics of Vatoral with sidenotes.]]
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