The Blood Cult
Pantheon
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| Continent / Island | Beluaterra | |
| Main Temple | (None) | |
| First Temple | Coness, Small Temple (Lvl. 3) | |
| Last Updated | 02:39, 23 August 2008 (CEST) | |
| Name | Status | Aspects | Dominions | Gender | Variant Forms | Parents | Heritage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caraoatl | Dead | Jealousy, Violence, Sacrifice, Creation | None | Male | Volcano | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xelatl |
| Foatl | Dead | Lust, Fertility, Love | None | Female | None | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xelatl |
| Hiacoatl | Alive | Teaching, Initiative, Ambition | None | Female | Serpent | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xenotl |
| Icalotl | Dead | Male part of Isolotl | None | Male | Seas | (Isolotl) | (Isolotl) |
| Isolotl | (Isolotl) | Primal god of Duality | None | Both | None | None | Source |
| Izalotl | Dead | Female part of Isolotl | None | Female | Continents | (Isolotl) | (Isolotl) |
| Jacatl | Alive | None | None | Male | Jaguar | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xenotl |
| Motl | Alive | Labour, Charity | None | Male | Moon | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xenotl |
| Teatoatl | Dead | Lust, Punishment | None | Male | None | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xelatl |
| Xeatoatl | Dead | Fire, Carelessness, Incompetance | None | Male | Stars | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xelatl |
| Xuna | Alive | Seduction, Fertility, Care | None | Female | Sun | Icalotl/Izalotl | Xenotl |
Myths
Creation Myth
In the beginning, there was nothing at all. From the void came Isolotl: who was nothing, yet was everything. He was none and all at once, female and male, creation and destruction, heat and cold, good and evil: Isolotl was the being of duality. And so, for a very long time, Isolotl was the world and the world was Isolotl. Then, he became Icalotl and Izalotl and conceived the first litter of divinity, the four Xenotls: Xuna, Motl, Hiacoatl, and Jacatl.
For 400 years they lived together, until Izatol became pregnant again. The children could not accept others taking their place, so they decided to go and kill their parents. Hiacoalt transformed into a snake and constricted Icalotl while Jacalt transformed himself into a jaguar and tore him apart, and turned him into in the oceans. They then went to find their mother Izalotl, but she had gotten away and gave birth to four new children, the Xelatls: Faotl, Xeatoatl, Teatoatl, and Caroatl. The four Xenotls, however, quickly found her and killed her, but were surprised by the new children, fully grown-up and equipped, and were forced to flee, wounded. The body of the Izalotl became the continents.
With the Xenotls gone yet still alive, the Xelatls decided to create an order to rule the world. Faotl jumped in the water, and from it she formed the first humans, to serve and ward them from the Xenotls. Xeatoatl decided to become the sun and shine over the world, however he could not move and he scorched Faotl's creation, which angered the other gods. Teatoatl killed him, shattering him into pieces which became the stars, and took his place. The few humans who had survived returned to the sea as turtles. This time, Faotl used the sun's fire and created new humans. Caraoatl soon discovered that Teatoatl was fooling around with Faotl, and so he decided to kill him. Before he took his place, Faotl turned Teatoatl into the moon to remember him forever. Humans once again mostly withered away, those who survived became the birds. Faotl made humans from dirt this time, and they once again prospered. However, Caraoatl eventually discovered that she was still going to see the moon and that she still loved Teatoatl, so in his rage he scorched her and her new creations, wich turned into monkeys. Alone, he molded the world as he saw fit, creating humans from a bit of his own blood.
Caraoatl being the only Xelatl left, the Xenotls gathered once more and returned to slay him. To kill him, they sent Xuna to seduce him. The trick worked, and when Caraoatl was distracted, Molt impaled him, driving his spear through Caraoatl's heart and sending him down on earth. He became a bleeding volcano, and his humans became lizards. However, with his last strength, he burned Xuna for her treachery, and cursed her, and all other Xenotls, that they would forever require blood to survive.
The fourth age was done, and so the Xenotls had to think of a way to battle the curse. Xuna used Faotl's bones and her own blood and formed the humans that still live today, that would forever be nurtured and that would forever nurture the gods. They now needed a sun so that their creations could survive, as to avoid jealousy they decided the crippled Xuna should take the role so they extracted her heart and set it in the sky, which formed the friendliest sun the world had known. However, they were surprised to see that the moon, unlike the new sun, remained still in the skies, and so Motl, to keep it out of his sister's way, volunteered to carry it through the skies: returning it when his sister rested and hiding it when she returned. Hiacoatl and Jacatl thus remained to teach and train humanity.
