Mother of All Aspects

The Mother Of All Aspects was the Supreme Goddess of the religion of the ancient Empire of Dor-en-Sann. It was officially called the Church of the Mother of All Aspects, more often simply called the Imperial Religion.

The Imperial Religion was a syncretic faith which bound the disparate cultures of the empire together. Most cities and tribes had a native mother goddess, who was worshipped using local names and with a wide range of rituals and traditions. The Imperial Religion declared them all to be facets of a single, all-powerful and all-loving deity, thereby binding all faiths together into a single whole. Even many male gods were said to be ultimately aspects of the mother deity.

The Imperial maternal godhead was known by many names. Often she was simply called the Great Mother, though to later Imperial Ensanni she was called Ashera, and had an Imperial cult where she was worshipped as defender of the emperors and the imperial heartlands.

As the Gaal civilisation conquered and absorbed neighbouring cultures into their growing sphere of influence, they discovered that forcing people to follow Gaal religion and eradicate existing belief was all but impossible. Consequently the Gaals adopted a different strategy.

Almost all neighbouring cultures of northern Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable Harthera had a dualistic faith, believing in both Mother and Father dieties. These were worshipped in an endless variety of names, forms and ceremonies. The EnSanni, who had had a matriarchal culture for centuries, believed the Mother to be pre-eminent, so tried to fine draw commonalities between all the mother goddesses.

In fact they declared all of these deities to be merely different incarnations, or Aspects, of one fundamental Mother Goddess, who could manifest and be worshipped in an endless variety of ways. Hence she was known as they the “Mother of All Aspects”.

The goddess was rarely worshipped in the aspect of this single Goddess, and was only referred to in official church communiques.