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==== 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. The first one could be qualified as a sort of "heaven", the other as "hell".
==== Elemental personality ====
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At every last day of the week, the followers gather into the local temple with a priest affiliated to the tribe's master to pray "the unity inside all of us", as this is the catchphrase that begin all ceremonies.
== Nestonism, Palayonism and Asconism ==
Prophets in Vatoral religion where those who lead their followers to their own view, and those who founded some parts of it. Nesto is the first prophet to tell to its own species how to behave, what is forbidden and what is allowed. As a feline, he told that the first living being to have been created by the four elements where felines, elves and humans being abnormalities that appeared through the times, thus those were inferiors beings. This has been the origin of the Great Separation and is why elves and humans got chased from the continent and were forced to establish settlements on the island of Torusta. The felines, following Nesto, were called nestonians, and their own side of Vatoral, "nestonism". As nestonians were raising cattles and lived from farming, they were called the "people of the organic".
Such similar events happened between elves and humans. Following respectively Palayo and Asco, both prophets and both considering elves or humans were the original beings, they divided themselves into palayonian and asconian, creating "palayonism" and "asconism". Each of the three prophets were convinced that their species were the only one to be able to rise towards the pure spiritual form, as others were anomalies incapable of finding unity. Such thoughts lead to numerous wars between the three species.
== Vatoral and modernity ==
If a majority of ayaupians are still religious, only a minority follows the prophets verses. Most of the believers consider the religion as philosopy and use the elemental balance as a way to answer existential questions, or to succeed in everyday life.
=== Discriminations ===
Many forms of reject inside ayaupian society is due to religious beliefs. Behaviours, personal favorites and likings, thoughts, relationships, are attached to religion and thus numerous citizens can face critism and stereotypes in their jobs, school or social interactions. Some phrases are popular amongst people, as "you have white eyes", to say someone is a debauched and has a lot of sexual relationships, as white is the color of air, and air is related to the character of not taking life seriously. See [[List of ayaupian phrases]].
Psychiatric illnesses were often during a long time attributed to the unability of finding personal unity, and persons who were suffering mental issues were considered as condemned to "hell" and lost forever, not able to accomplish themselves.
In the current days, such illnesses rose in consideration and more and more people can have access to medication and diverse treatments and therapies.
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, 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 that escaped the spirit's will by not being able to reproduce, which is here seen as an advantage, completely freed the spirit they more able to find internal unity. They are respected and popular, even praised and possess highly ranked roles in society.
Today, the federal government has actively made a campaign about accepting homosexuality and other minor sexualities, as supporting a foundating idea that is "all individual are born equal, no matter what their made of". There are still rejections in very conservative and isolated groups.
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