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--- polemos:4th_age:religions:gya_shamanism [2021/10/13 23:37] – created Blake Anderton
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 ==== Kuy ====
+The kuy (translated: //crucible//) is the most popular, but also the most fragmented of the shaman schools.
+It sees the ascension as an individual path to transcendence and enlightenment, fueled by the purification of the soul through suffering.
+Many adherents induce this suffering through ritual self-mutilation, sometimes to the point of extreme measures such as amputation.
-==== Hyiisi ====
+==== Qwu ====
+The qwu (translated: //servants//) is the most organized of the shaman schools, and favored by warlords of the more centralized gyag tribes.
+Qwu views the ascension as a communal effort - each member of the community must make individual sacrifices for.
+There is a large divergence between various shamans and tribes on the exact details of the expected sacrifices
-==== Qwe ====
+==== Hyiisi ====
+The hyiisi (translated: //tower//) are the smallest, but claim to be the oldest, school of shamans.
+Their view on the ascension is secret, known only to a small cabal who speak only partial truths to other shamans, even of other schools.
+For this reason the hyiisi are sometimes accused of manipulating the teachings of the other schools, but in general hyiisi shamans form cultic camps far in the wilderness and take care to only speak to those that approach them first.
+What little details are commonly known is that hyiisi practitioners borrow mystical rituals from the Kuy, but speak of the ascension as a world-changing event.
+Hyiisi teaching culminates with the //Babastor// (translated: //work shift, duty to contribute//), a 'spirit walk' that borrows elements from the communal sacrifices of the qwu. The spiritually heightened or close-to-death travel to the [[polemos:4th_age:locations:tree_of_life|Tree of Life]] to assist the world in bringing about the ascension.
+Details of what occurs at the Tree are not known, as no one that performs a spirit walk return.