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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 been trapped into. By animating elements, they made them in 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 them, thereform turned into a single human. That human was made by a bit of each element, as he couldn't be a unique and pure essence, therefore losing its power. As to be sure to lower its abilities, he was divided into two humans completely opposed, a wan and a woman. Since then, that spirit tries to obtain power again by making men and women attracted by each other, thus populating Urth with humans, which are multiple forms of himself. It is believed that if humans want to reproduce, it can only be explained by
[[File:Vatoral Religion Fundamental Scheme.png|200px|thumb|right|A schematics of Vatoral with sidenotes.]]
=== Beliefs ===
==== Internal conflict solving ====
Each humans being constitued of a bit of every element, and being separated in a binary opposition of the body and the mind, has to get through internal conflicts and issues, caused by every elements wanting to separate from each other. The individual has to resolve its own problems and contradictions, to become a unified being. This goes through religious duty, as prayers and confessions, and personal achievement, such as knowing and understanding more about itself, learning about its failures, confessing and repenting its mistakes, and reducing its own bad side. If someone did progress into the research of himself, and finally accomplished its unity, they will be purified after their death and become a pure and eternal spirit free of any matter. On the contrary, if someone didn't progressed at all and kept being subject of contradictions and errors (such as hypocrisy, lie, perversion, etc), the person will be separated into each of its elements after his death and will be torn apart several elements accross all the world for eternity.
==== Elemental personality ====
All traits of personality and character are due to the four elements.
* Earth : realism and down to earth thoughts, seriousness, as well as powerfulness and activity.
* Air : idealism and dreams, lightness, powerlessness and passivity.
* Fire : passion and hot tempered thoughts, optimism, as well as unsubmissive and aggressivity.
* Water : temperance and calm, pessimism, submissive and friendly.
When a person has such character, ideas and behaviors, this is due to being made of more of some elements than others. For example : a hot tempered and idealistic person is believed to be made of more air and fire than earth and water.
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 them.
[[File:Ayaupia Totem.svg|800px|thumb|center]]
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