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Venua Faith adherents believe time will continue until so many people have lived and died, and so many souls and bodies have passed to the sun and moon, that the sun and moon will expand and collide on the earth, destroying the earth and combining the sun and moon back into one Great God comprised of the First and Second God as well as all people who have ever lived. The Great God will be one perfect being and will live in solitary harmony forever, as the competing chaos of life and death that shake the world have been both silenced. | Venua Faith adherents believe time will continue until so many people have lived and died, and so many souls and bodies have passed to the sun and moon, that the sun and moon will expand and collide on the earth, destroying the earth and combining the sun and moon back into one Great God comprised of the First and Second God as well as all people who have ever lived. The Great God will be one perfect being and will live in solitary harmony forever, as the competing chaos of life and death that shake the world have been both silenced. | ||
==Worship practices== | ==Worship practices== | ||
===Sacrificess=== | |||
===Funeral=== | |||
In the Venua Faith, indiviuals are {{wp|cremated}} upon death. The cremation is accompanied by a ritual which wishes the soul of the departed good luck in their travel to the Great Oneness while thanking the physical body of the departed for accompanying the soul during its life. Following the cremation and ceremony, the ashes of the deceased are blended with snow, which is generally ubiquitous in [[Venua'tino]] most times of the year, and stacked in piles of balls. This is intended to ease the "falling off" of the ashes to the ash pit (moon). | |||
==Prevalence== | ==Prevalence== | ||
The Venua Faith is the religion of the vast majority of people living in the [[Venua'tino]] region, including residents of [[Copake]] and [[Shenendehowa Bay]]. It has an extremely limited footprint beyond its home region, with a few adherents abroad in places like northern [[Housatonic]]. | The Venua Faith is the religion of the vast majority of people living in the [[Venua'tino]] region, including residents of [[Copake]] and [[Shenendehowa Bay]]. It has an extremely limited footprint beyond its home region, with a few adherents abroad in places like northern [[Housatonic]]. | ||