Matriology

matriology is a monotheistic Light religion of the people of Frey. it revers the Godmother, and shares with Tuerasian religion the belief that the Light has a body. though they differ much after that belief. Matrian temples of worship are called Spousums.

according to their beliefs, because women give birth, they possess a sliver of creation, and thereby they share some of the Godmother's own power. this belief could be contradicted by the fact that men and women can receive divine powers as Lightbringers.

women create life and men take it, both being necessary acts in life. this translates to defined cultural gender roles where a devout Matrian woman will not even uproot a craggot, or pull a fruit from a tree and thereby end its life. that is considered to be the duty of a man. Matriology believes that as women crate life, they were also the caretakers of life, and they should to raising the children, keeping their house in order, and pleasing their husbands. this means they will prepare the food after it had been killed. women are considered to be the only ones who can offer blessings.

practitioners believe that to purify someone of their sins, the sinner must first repent and then go through a cleansing ordinance, known as the sacrament, which is sexual intercourse. to be properly performed, the two individuals who perform it must be married. this process of redemtion is justified as a joyful thing, because that is the will of the Godmother. Matriology holds that the cleansing of sin is not about power.

Matriology is not a unified religion. there are Matrian Orthodoxes who claim that the sacrament only cleanses sin in proper marriage. other Spousums proclaim the interpretation that sexual intercourse alone can cleanse sins.

trivia

 * some Spousums claim that non-marital sexual intercourse can cleanse sin. Orthodox Matrians seem to believe that they are 'glorified whorehouses'. by this, it can be assumed that they perform sacred prostitution.