Cuvétar

Cuvétar n: a relic of Yophenthean Arathracian ritual, the cuvétar is cylindrical shaped stone of reddish gold color that is used to enchant and sanctify the water of the echteal. There are several accounts of how the solar gods gave the first cuvétar to the Yophenthean priest-nobles. All subsequent cuvétars are considered cut from this first immense stone. Many treasure-hunters and religious pilgrims have attempted to find the remaining core mass of this rock through the centuries without success.

Nearly two thousand years have claimed many of the ancient cuvétars. Today true cuvétars are rare and of great worth to the Arathracian community and collectors alike.

Modernist Interpretation

One account teaches that the sun spewed out a rock that fell, like a meteor, and landed in Erechóreb. Another account teaches that Skiánthra brought the stone from the sun and buried it in the earth. The waters settles in a pool around the stone and this is where Aireánnau was bathing when the Lord of Golden Eaglekind brought the sacred vessel to her, made the Annunciation, and she conceived St. Erithraigean (St. Arathracius). Arathracians insist, especially since the late empire when the ideological conflict between sun and sky came to a high pitch, that the holy Cuvétar fell from the sun, not from the sky.

Other Terms

• cuve- vb: to fall, to let fall, to give one's portion, said of one of higher rank to one of lower rank; thought to signify the stone falling from heaven, like a meteor.
• cuvetac adj: pertaining to the cuvétar
• ancuvetácodh n: container for the cuvétar, usually made of fine wood with metal braces and extensive guilding, an ancuvetacodh is highly enriched with ornamentation and precious and semi-precious stones. It is kept on display inside the temple as a sacred relic in its own right.
• cuvetarguath (cuvetarguan, cuvetarguant-) n: bearer of the cuvétar when transported to a temple.
• chme: great stone altar for animal sacrifice
• bulpha: lesser altar, used for prayers or remembrances, not used for blood sacrifices.
• bomach, bomag-: high location used for sacrifice or worship (pre-Arathracian)
• airry: priest
• gwavaliadh: aquilary
• erithráigeath: high priest of the sun, priest-noble
• córonde: priest-king (of the sun)
• Ambreal: Amrulon
• Erithrach: Arathrax
• Aireánnau: Holy Bride of Arathrax
• Rheigu: Rhio
• Erithráigean: St. Arathracius, firstborn of Aireánnau by the god Arathrax and eldest of her eight sons.

See Also

• Ancuvetácodh
• Catalogue of Confirmed Cuvétars
• Cuvetárguath
• Echteal