Neptultchi Gods and Religion
Neptultchi Gods and Religion are obscured in mystery by the passing of millennia since the Coming of the Neptultchi around 4300 AS. There are as many half-truths about the Neptultchi Gods as there are revelations, the majority of which is known only to scholarly specialists. Most southern Pytharnians know of the Neptultchi as the Tuadbe, remembered in the oldest legends of the Moigthe.
Propitiation
The Neptultchi Gods have been worshiped through different periods. The first or native period circumscribes the extent of Neptultchi Civilization or roughly 4300 AS to 1550 AS. The second period is the early Moigthe period when Moigthe Tribes feared and buried the Neptultchi religion, worshiping Neptultchi Gods only when they thought there was no other recourse. The third period was the Yophenthean age when the Neptultchi gods were officially and rigorously proscribed. The fourth period extends roughly from the loss of Yophenthea as the political and ecclesiastical to the present day. During this fourth period, the cult of Neptultchi Gods has slowly risen in secret favor among the erudite and cunning class of people of southern Pytharnia and Ithatia. Adherents of other religions see the vestiges of the Neptultchi Gods, worshiped under other names, as demonic or diabolic divinities.
List of Neptultchi Gods and Divine beings
- Aqmazúl: caiman-shaped god
- Hersp, aka Hex̧pu: God of Ithrabbi, servant to Tsokuchá
- Xalal: Chaos Goddess or the personifications of the waters of Chaos, thought to be the mother to Hersp, she is the size of a small city. Compare Xhalb'ithût. She is also thought to be the mother of Q'a'askitxá.
- Kuq'aq'u: god of organchan voraxes
- Lukwachtsál: mortal king descended from Qu'la and called 'Son of Q'ula' as an honorific, he is venerated by the kings of the Neptultchi as the first of their line to rule in Pytharnia.
- Mauhwetzampawexixá: Necromancer demi-goddess descended from the royal line, she was known for powerful necromancy. Her name means 'Queen who borrows the dead.'
- Metseltonchanksa: Green-skinned lord of the dead, leader of the Neptultchi Pantheon, father of Tsokuchá. His name means 'metsel' nothing 'ton' speak 'chanksa' lord, 'lord of they who speak nothing'
- Nehuqatl: Father of Metseltonchankra, Nehuqatl is the old man of the night.
- Naptúlt: Androgynous God of the Sea, to whom the Neptultchi ascribed the creation of all mortal life. Its name is the source of the word 'Neptultchi' which means people of Naptúlt.
- Ochyatsaktlochyá: the colossal divinity in whose belly and internal organs the Neptultchi people dwelt beneath the sea, Ochyatsaktlochyá appears as an enormous shell with fins and flippers. See also Saint Yusivailt's Rock.
- Pachahwanyochtlá: lesser divinities who steal the nightmares of the gods and give them to mortals
- Paqcha'o: rain god
- Q'aaskicha'a: dragonmother, seduced and ravished by a Neptultchi warrior, she gave birth to the forebears of the dragonmount knights. She subsequently devoured her violator. Compare Dajhis, a Kalaman divinity of dragons. Q'aaskicha'a is thought to be the daughter of the waters of chaos.
- Qatmak: lesser divinity of the underworld, minion of Metseltonchankra, ruler of Amosgire Hills.
- Q'ehepotli: First human, distant forebear of Nehuqatl.
- Q'ula: Son of Tsokuchá, grandson of Metseltonchankra, first king of the Neptultchi before they came to Pytharnia. The Neptultchi King, Lukwachtsúl regarded Qu'la as his father, but the relationship is thought not so immediate.
- Qohtswechutle: goddess who conducts dead women to the underworld and also leads the undead from the world of the living. She is the daughter (real or adoptive) to Yaa'q.
- Tchontimoma: younger brother to Tsokuchá, forebear of the warrior-priests or Tchontitsúl
- Tetsele: goddess of fire from the depths of the earth or depths of the sea; she contrasts with Uhwakomo.
- Titli: Consort to Tsokuchá, she is princess of the Tswalu, a humanlike race now lost to memory, mother to Qu'la
- Tsama Qxhu, Qx̧u: a colossal demonic squid god that tried to destroy the Ochyatsaktlochyá and the Neptultchi people inside of it during their journey from their mythical homeland to southwestern Pytharnia. This god is enemy to Naptult and to the god-king of the Neptultchi. He is credited with eventually devouring the god-king and his retinue in the second millennium before Salmakhamer according to myth and thus bring about the end of the Neptultchi God-Empire.
- Tsokuchá: Son of Metseltonchankra, turquoise-skinned, Possessor of the living, intermediary between the living and Metseltonchankra, representative of the living.
- Tsuktlu: lesser divinity who rides gibgibsews
- Uhwakomo: god of the fire from above, meteors, ether; he contrasts with Tetsele.
- Uq'we-uchwe: father of the gibgibsews by Q'aaskicha'a.
- Xankatsúl: God of the human serfs, the Nanchachi, and servant to Metseltonchankra
- Xokaktlal: light-blue skinned daughter of Metseltonchankra, dwells in mushroom forest, sister to Tsokuchá.
- Yaa'q: goddess, keeper of the gate to the underworld where Metseltonchankra rules, Yaa'q is daughter to Metseltonchankra, sister to Xokaktlal.
Related Terms
- Qllu Tsamat: heretical priests of Tsama Qllu
Prosopography
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