Ienna

Ienna’s Signature

Choice is the seed of creation.

One of the , Ienna, Queen of Beginnings, is the goddess of Youth, Spring and Art. She is associated with birth, which her priests celebrate in the ritual.

To Ienna are associated the green and azure colors. Among the professions seen as sacred by her believers are those of artists - painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians, etcetera - and teachers.

Cult

The cult of Ienna is one of the Wandering Faiths, along with that of . This cults are so called because they usually have a modest precence in most of .

Priciples

The faithful to Ienna believe that the highest aspiration is to create something that isn’t. For them, evil is what causes stagnation, the absence of movement and transformation, the acedia that weighs down the soul.

• Transformation. Inaction is an evil greater than failure, those who aspire to greatness should start with transforming themselves in someone able to obtain it. Urge yourself and those around you to act, choice is the seed of metamorphosis.
• Community. The creation of the many are always greater then those of the individual. Knowledge shared is alway more important than that kept hidden. Share your talents, make it so that the merits of the one can benefit all.

Temples

The temples of Ienna are among the most varies between those of the . These are often surrounded by a garden and gladly host artists and travellers.

In the temples of Ienna is easy to find midwives and sometimes also work as orphanages.

Rituals and Customs

The rites of Ienna are acts meant to venerate birth and creation.

Embrace of the Grass

The ritual of the Embrace of the Grass is executed at birth. The newborn is layed on the ground, if possible in the gardens of a temple to Ienna, and friends and familiars of the parents create a circle around him. The parents take each one of the hands of the child and one after the other offer a prayer that contains their desires for the newborn. In absence of one of the parents, a substitute is chosen by the family.

At the end of this prayers, the newbord is lifted up and the grass on which he was laying is taken and woven in a crown that the child is made to wear for the following days.

Festival of Rebirth

The Festival of Rebirth is celebrated during the , the Spring Solstice. During the festival is ritual for the people to decorate their houses with flowers or plants and paint their faces with bright colors.

History