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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.
ItThese isforces believedare thatsaid theseto forces are howkeep the world is madeliveful, and thatas life couldn't exist without them.
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