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Aktagardin speculates that different interpretations of the retreat of the Central Kiravian Glacier - the most significant natural occurrence of this time period - may have played a role. Ocean-fearers had long contrasted the life-giving ocean with the life-negating Glacier and credited the ocean with keeping the Glacier at bay, observing that glacial melt flows into the ocean. Moon-worshippers had long credited the Moon with bringing their ancestors over the pack ice and trusted that the Moon would once again protect them from the malign gelid force of the Glacier if they migrated inland. Perchance. A more strictly Marxian hypothesis attributing the divergence to the adoption of rudimentary horticulture without identifying a clear causal connexion was added when the book was resubmitted to the censorship board, and has been explored by later authors. | Aktagardin speculates that different interpretations of the retreat of the Central Kiravian Glacier - the most significant natural occurrence of this time period - may have played a role. Ocean-fearers had long contrasted the life-giving ocean with the life-negating Glacier and credited the ocean with keeping the Glacier at bay, observing that glacial melt flows into the ocean. Moon-worshippers had long credited the Moon with bringing their ancestors over the pack ice and trusted that the Moon would once again protect them from the malign gelid force of the Glacier if they migrated inland. Perchance. A more strictly Marxian hypothesis attributing the divergence to the adoption of rudimentary horticulture without identifying a clear causal connexion was added when the book was resubmitted to the censorship board, and has been explored by later authors. | ||
Regardless of how or why the Moon-Ocean schism happened, it resulted in a divergence of worldviews between the monistic, fatalistic ocean death-cult and the more fideistic and transcendental lunar religion, which will eventually come to resemble other world monotheïstic faiths in key respects. Ocean spirituality is described as emphasising the precarity of life in an environment of unpredictable and catastrophic change, and explores the contradiction between the irrepressible human will to survive and the inevitability of being swallowed back up by the all-consuming Ocean. The Ocean creates and nurtures all life and also destroys and devours all life. This fosters an attitude of ecstatic resignation and high-octane enthusiasm toward change, death, and suffering, and places a high spiritual value on passion, especially in its spontaneous extremes of euphoria, terror, abandon, and what very serious real psychoanalysts call "LFG energy". Moon spirituality, in contrast, emphasises a pervasive cosmic order and a body of truths hidden above and beyond immediate human perception but partially discoverable through a reverent and contemplative experience of reality. This engenders an attitude toward change comparable to what is found in {{wp|Taoism}} or {{wp|Stoicism|Stoïcism}}, and accordingly ''Saropatra'' values calm, moderation, peace, and neutrality. Ocean spirituality has more in common with shamanistic and oracular traditions, whereas Moon spirituality has more in common with monastic, ascetic, and mystical traditions. Ocean-fearers paid great attention to doomsayers, hysterics, and persons plagued by nightmares, | Regardless of how or why the Moon-Ocean schism happened, it resulted in a divergence of worldviews between the monistic, fatalistic ocean death-cult and the more fideistic and transcendental lunar religion, which will eventually come to resemble other world monotheïstic faiths in key respects. Ocean spirituality is described as emphasising the precarity of life in an environment of unpredictable and catastrophic change, and explores the contradiction between the irrepressible human will to survive and the inevitability of being swallowed back up by the all-consuming Ocean. The Ocean creates and nurtures all life and also destroys and devours all life. This fosters an attitude of ecstatic resignation and high-octane enthusiasm toward change, death, and suffering, and places a high spiritual value on passion, especially in its spontaneous extremes of euphoria, terror, abandon, and what very serious real psychoanalysts call "LFG energy". Moon spirituality, in contrast, emphasises a pervasive cosmic order and a body of truths hidden above and beyond immediate human perception but partially discoverable through a reverent and contemplative experience of reality. This engenders an attitude toward change comparable to what is found in {{wp|Taoism}} or {{wp|Stoicism|Stoïcism}}, and accordingly ''Saropatra'' values calm, moderation, peace, and neutrality. Ocean spirituality has more in common with shamanistic and oracular traditions, whereas Moon spirituality has more in common with monastic, ascetic, and mystical traditions. Ocean-fearers paid great attention to doomsayers, hysterics, and persons plagued by nightmares, and their chief form of communal religious experience came in the form of group ecstacies triggered by losses of life to storms and floods. Moon-worshippers, on the other hand found deeper meaning in different forms of {{wp|trance states}}, meditation, {{wp|vision quests}}, and cryptic symbolism in their dreams. Lunar group religious experience was more likely to centre on moonlit nocturnal sessions of rhythmic chanting and perhaps the sharing of herbalistic concoctions to induce {{wp|depersonalisation}} and {{wp|derealisation}}. | ||
The question of "How does this relate to the endemic and ritualistic interband violence that characterised pre-Emperor Kirav?" | The question of "How does this relate to the endemic and ritualistic interband violence that characterised pre-Emperor Kirav?" was mentioned as question to be explored in a companion volume. The companion volume in question was not published during Aktagardin's lifetime and was presumed {{wp|lost work|lost}} until 1988 AD, when fragmentary drafts of the author's monograph were uncovered in the library of the [[Coscivian Culture University]]. | ||
=== Age of Blood and Moral Degeneration === | === Age of Blood and Moral Degeneration === | ||