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'''Cozauism''' is a religion based on the doctrine of [[Cozauh Tlecoyani]] as written in the seven codices of the [[Teocuezalin]]. As the state religion of the powerful [[Angatahuaca (historical polity)|Angatahuacan hegemony]], the Cozauist Temple became influential across much of western [[Ajax#Oxidentale|Oxidentale]] and southern [[Ajax#Malaio|Malaio]] where Angatahuaca held significant political and military sway. Today, Cozauism is the majority religion in the [[Nahuasphere]] nations of [[Zacapican]] and [[Pulacan]] that emerged from the core territories of the former Angatahauacan empire. The institution of the Temple holds spiritual authority over matters of religious orthodoxy and the interpretation of the Teocuezalin and is organized according to a regimented hierarchy headed by the ''Tlatocateopixqui'' or "Holy Speaker", the formal head of the Temple and spiritual leader to the many millions of Cozauists around the world. Although the current Tlatocateopixqui no longer wields the considerable temporal powers of their medieval predecessors since the secularization of government in the 20th century, the office retains its centralized authority over the international network of several thousand Cozauist temples. The legitimacy of the Temple as the governing authority of the Cozauist religion is based on the direct line of succession from Cozauh Tlecoyani himself to all subsequent Tlatocateopixqui.
| name              = Cuauhtlatollo
| native_name        =
| image              = [[File:Placa_de_la_Orden_Mexicana_del_Águila_Azteca.svg|200px]]
| alt                =
| caption            = Seal of the Cuauhtlatollo
| image2            =
| alt2              =
| caption2          =
| motto              = In Mitl In Chimalli<br>{{small|(The Arrow and the Shield)}}
| founded            = October 24th, 1924
| current_form      = September 1st, 1960
| disbanded          =
| branches          = {{unbulleted list
| [[Yaocallapixque]]<br>{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' [[Tlalpixque]]}}<br>{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' [[Ilhuicapixque]]}}<br>{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' [[Tlemipixque]]}}<br>[[Yaochihualque]]<br>{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' [[Cemmantihuitz]]}}<br>{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' [[Ayaoquizque]]}}<br>[[Yaotlapixque]]}}
| headquarters      = [[Yaoyotepec]]
| website            =
<!-- Leadership -->
| commander-in-chief = [[Nochcalima]]
| commander-in-chief_title = Great Speaker
| chief minister    = Chicacua Xiomara
| chief minister_title = Chief Secretary
| minister          = Quiahuitl Yollohtli
| minister_title    = Secretary of Defense
| commander          = Nezahualcoyotl Amanaztli
| commander_title    = Cuauhtlato
<!-- Manpower -->
| age                = 20-40
| conscription      = Yes
| manpower_data      = 2020
| manpower_age      = 20-35
| available          = 12,747,845
| available_f        = 12,710,871
| fit                = 9,451,515
| fit_f              = 10,181,537
| reaching          = 522,500
| reaching_f        = 545,670
| active            = 445,400
| ranked            =
| reserve            = 328,000
| deployed          =
<!-- Financial -->
| amount            = 114.4 Billion
| percent_GDP        = 5.5%
<!-- Industrial -->
| domestic_suppliers =
| foreign_suppliers  =
| imports            =
| exports            =
<!-- Related articles -->
| history            =
| ranks              =
}}


The '''Cuauhtlatollo''' is the official name of the combined military-civilian organization charged with the administration of military and intelligence affairs of the government of [[Zacapican]]. It is controlled by the Secretariat of Defense and overseen by the judges of the War Department under High Court, and is itself divided into three organs and a total of six subdivisions. The homeland defense forces of Zacapican are grouped under the Yaocallapixque, which is subdivided into the Tlalpixque which operate the land based defense forces, the Ilhuicapixque which operates the domestic air force of Zacapican, and the Tlemipixque which serves as the strategic missile force of the Yaocallapixque. These Guard units make up the largest portion of the Cuauhtatollo's servicepeople and available manpower. The Yaochihualque are the military forces intended to serve overseas and away from the homeland, and are composed of the Zacapine Armada known as the Cemmantihuitz and the Ayaoquizque (lit. "Water Army"), also known as the Naval Infantry Force or Zacapine Marines. They are based in naval and marine bases in Zacapican as well as in overseas bases for rapid deployment. The third and final organ of the Cuauhtlatollo are the Yaotlapixque which supervises special operations and has no formal subdivisions. The headquarters of the Cuauhtlatollo is the fortress complex of [[Yaoyotepec]], located in the outerskirts of the capital [[Tequitinitlan]], which also contains the headquarters of all three divisions.
The Cozauist religion is neither fully polytheistic nor monotheistic, incorporating aspects of both cosmological systems into a semi-{{wp|henotheism|henotheistic}} form of {{wp|monolatry}}. [[Xotlatozca]] is the supreme god of Cozauism and the focus of worship, but other gods are acknowledged in in specific circumstances permitted to be worshipped in parallel within the Temple. Cozauist mythology and cosmology draws heavily from its polytheistic precursor, a system of traditional religion practiced in pre-Cozauist Zacapican that was comparable to the [[White Path]] still prevalent in the modern-day [[Mutul]]. The origins of the Cozauist creed and the Teocuezalin's seven codices that modern Cozauists hold sacred can be found in the efforts of Cozauh Tlecoyani, an important lord in medieval Angatahuaca and a notable religious reformer, to establish a centralized and consolidated religious system integrating the beliefs, mythology and ritual practices of Angatahuaca's subject peoples into a single organized institution.


==History==
==Beleifs==
The 1924 military reform occured as a result of the attempted military coup which set off the [[Black Capotlin War]] and was intended to render any future military coup an impossibility, and mitigate any risk of military rebellion against the civilian government. The direct result of the reform was the split of the existing army and navy institutions of the Zacapine armed forces into seperated, parallel organizations without a joint armed forces command of a military charachter. This would allow the civilian authorities to play the now split military organs against one another, balancing their influence and fatally complicating any coup plot in the process. Under the reforms, the army became the Yaocallapixque, under which ground and air forces previously under army command were split into seperate organs. The navy was reformed into the Yaochihualque, subdivided into marine and naval units while the navy subdivision retained control of its air wing which was minimal at the time of the reforms. To coordinate and control the now disjointed military commands, the Cuauhtlatollo was established by by the Secretariat of Defense as well as the judicary oversight councils of the high court. At the time of its founding, the organization was headquartered in the annex of the high court building in eastern Tequitinitlan. As the Cuauhtlatollo was always intended to both coordinate defense affairs and restrict the military from unwanted actions, the addition of intelligence, counterintelligence and other subversive capabilities which were seen as potentially dangerous to the civilian government if misdirected would result in the Yaotlapixque being added to the Cuauhtlatollo's supervision, alongside the addition of the Rocket Guards to the Yaocallapixque organization.
The Cozauist worldview is based on the interactions of numerous cyclical processes of metaphorical and literal life, death and rebirth, which govern mortal life and cycles of the rain and the seasons. Each cycle is represented by a particular mythological being and is thought to be infinitely recurrent containing and being contained by the same cycle on a larger and smaller scale sometimes to grand or infinitesimal to be appreciated by mortal perception. The grandest of the sacred cycles is that of the Sun, which is governed by the unseen god Xotlatozca, the "Throat of Blossoming Flames". In the Cozauist conception of the universe, all of creation is centered on a metaphorical Sun, the source of all light, heat, and life in the universe, which spontaneously ignited itself at the moment of creation and will continue to burn until the time of the apocalypse, when the world will fall into darkness for a time and all cycles of life will be brought to an end. It is then that Xotlatozca, the manifestation of the Universal Sun, will reignite himself and begin a new arc of creation. The cycle of the Universal Sun corresponds to the smaller recurrent cycles of the year, governed by the {{wp|Xiuhtecuhtli|Turquoise Lord}}, who is master of the year and the seasons, and also the cycle of the day governed by the {{wp|Tonatiuh|Day Lord}} who governs the movement of the earthly Sun through the sky every day. Both of these deities were worshipped as independent deities in the pre-Cozauist times, but would be integrated into the mythology of the supreme god Xotlatozca by the unified Temple. Under Cozauist doctrine, all cycles and therefore all of the deities of the natural universe, are subordinated to the Supreme Process, the cyclical creation and destruction of the world and the universe by the life cycle of Xotlatozca.


==Organization==
A number of Cozauist scholars theorize that Xotlatozca is the deity governing the metaphorical rebirth of all things, and and so is not only a part of the apocalyptic cycle but is also present within all other cycles. This is the most monotheistic interpretation of Cozauist doctrine that is still accepted within the orthodoxy, as this version of Xotlatozca is the closest to the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God of the monotheistic faiths, comparable to the [[Sarpetic religions|Sarpetic God]]. The more polytheistic interpretations of Cozauist mythology and cosmology portray Xotlatozca as the unseen god of creation and destruction, supreme among the other deities in his power and importance to the universe, but closer in essence to the pre-Cozauist deities.
===Yaocallapixque===
 
{{main|Yaocallapixque}}
Cozauism reincorporates the pre-Cozauist concept that the gods could be sustained and empowered through sacrifice, although the Teocuezalin explicitly forbade the sacrifice of human lives, considering this to be an insult to the gifts of the gods. Instead, those objects that are burned or given up as offerings in other ways, most often incense, special sacrificial paper, or foods and beverages, are though to give sustenance to the gods, the spirits of the dead, and can similarly influence supernatural factors. It is the Cozauist belief that, although the cycle must inevitably conclude and begin again, it can be extended or otherwise manipulated through the intervention of the divine and the good or bad actions of mortals. In this way, the cycles of rains, life, and the prolonged existence of the world can be influenced through the diligent worship and regime of offerings, sacrifices and prayers of those who follow Cozauh's covenant with the divine.  
Also called the Guard Forces, the Yaocallapixque represent the defensive arm of the Cuauhtlatollo's forces equipped and prepared to engage in a campaign of territorial defense in the case that the Zacapine mainland comes under miliary attack by an outside power. A variety of strategies are favored by different groups and types of division within the Yaocallapixque suited to a variety of situations, which differ greatly from those employed by the seperate Yaochihualque. Due to its strategic role, the Yaocallapixque's forces are not always oriented towards common army doctrines. The prime guiding principals of the defensive doctrine belonging to the Guard Forces is that of {{wp|Defence in depth|elastic defense}} and strategic counter-attacks, with a strong focus on taking full advantage of the terrain of the border regions and prepared defensive measures. However, the Yaocallapixque and Yaochihualque share a common emphasis on air power, bombing and close air support to destroy enemy positions and formations. In the Yaocallapixque, the manifests in the use of the Land Guards as a blocking or delaying force which will blunt and halt the enemy's advance and then fix them in place so that they could be destroyed by artillery, air power and strategic missiles.
 
====Tlalpixque====
==Practices==
{{main|Tlalpixque}}
===Thanksgiving===
The Land Guards represent the main force for the defense of Zacapican, and the largest overall single organ or subdivision of the Cuauhtlatollo. Their main duty in the strategy of defense for the Yaocallapixque is to weaken and stop an incursion by enemy land forces, as well as to carry out counterattacks against overextended enemy positions or those which have been softened up by artillery and air bombardment by friendly forces. In general, much of the Land Guards are reserve forces regularly drilled to prepare for rapid mobilization, as well as a system of mass mobilization of Calpolli militias and local groups against an enemy invasion. These mobolized units the Tlalpixaque serve two functions, these being to directly defend positions against enemy attacks, and to operate as organized insurgent forces behind enemy lines to further weaken an incursion. Mobilized units are less effective in most roles due to a lack of training in modern combined arms tactics, however Land Guards doctrine considers them sufficient to defend regions of mountains or hills as well as urban areas where the advantage of an attacking combined arms formation would be lessened. Land Guards standing forces, which represent the standing army units of Zacapican in peacetime, are equipped with modern small arms, heavy weapons, tanks and armored vehicles and are drilled in conventional and modern tactics, making them much more versatile and combat effective than mobilized units. For this reason, standing forces have the responsibility to delaying an enemy advance with harassment, hit and run attacks and a general elastic defense in order to buy time for additional Guards units to mobilize and form a broader defensive line, as well as to defend or counter-attack in more open terrain not optimal for mobilized units.
The ''Tlazocamati'' or Thanksgiving is an important daily ritual conducted in the early morning that involves the burning of incense and offerings. The Thanksgiving prayer is the most common daily recitation, giving thanks to the creator Lord Xotlatozca for the gifts and life and creation, and is usually the first prayer taught to children and new converts. The words of the Thanksgiving prayer, as the name suggests, praise Xotlatozca for creating and sustaining the universe by becoming the Sun, and demonstrates humility before the divine which is thought to be the most important Cozauist virtue. The sacrificial portion of the ritual involves burning incense and objects of real or symbolic value to demonstrate commitment to the virtue of humility and to sustain the supreme being through sacrifice.
====Ilhuicapixque====
===Ritual Substances===
{{main|Ilhuicapixque}}
====Tlemipixque====
{{main|Tlemipixque}}
The Rocket Guards represent the smallest of all branches of the Cuauhtlatollo, operating the surface to air, surface to surface, and land based anti-ship missile inventory of the Zacapine military forces. In both air and anti-ship deployment, the Rocket Guards have a doctrine of concentrated assets around strategic areas with the aim of overwhelming any enemy countermeasures or concentrated attack with multiple simultaneous missile launches to destroy a potentially superior force that would overwise be able to deal with the Rocket Guards assets or other naval and air defenses against them. In order to accomplish this, the primary consideration for the deployment of missile assets for the Tlemipixque is mobility and concealment of assets in order to avoid being pinpointed by the enemy such that the enemy should not be able to anticipate the locations from which missile launches will occur or be able to destroy Tlemipixque assets preemtively. It is rumored that the Tlemipixque control a limited number of silo-based missiles which cannot be concealed through perpetual relocation of assets as is usually done, therefore these are fixed sites are concealed through other means to avoid being discovered by enemy intelligence  and reconaissance.  
===Yaochihualque===
{{main|Yaochihualque}}
====Cemmantihuitz====
{{main|Cemmantihuitz}}
====Ayaoquizque====
{{main|Ayaoquizque}}
The Water Army or Marine Corps is the amphibious and land combat wing of the Yaochihualque and is widely regarded as the most elite fighting force in Zacapican. They include highly regarded and decorated formations like the Penguins special amphibious force and the Ironbarks paratrooper formation. Ayaoquizque are the best equipped, best trained and most experienced land forces of the Zacapine military, making them very highly valued soldiers of the Cuauhtlatollo. Because of this, they are occasionally deployed on missions outside of their typical strategic function where their expertise is considered indispensable to the mission. Their primary function however is to engage in whatever deployment of boots on the ground the Cuauhtlatollo and civil leaders of Zacapican deem in the nation's best interest. This most often takes the form of special expeditionary formations of various Ayaoquizque units best suited towards the mission parameters joined together into temporary task forces. However, the Ayaoquizques main wartime function is the amphibous landing of troops on islands and the shores of hostile nations, and to conduct any subsequent invasion that may be required of them with support from the navy and naval aviation planes.  
===Yaotlapixque===
{{main|Yaotlapixque}}

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Cozauism is a religion based on the doctrine of Cozauh Tlecoyani as written in the seven codices of the Teocuezalin. As the state religion of the powerful Angatahuacan hegemony, the Cozauist Temple became influential across much of western Oxidentale and southern Malaio where Angatahuaca held significant political and military sway. Today, Cozauism is the majority religion in the Nahuasphere nations of Zacapican and Pulacan that emerged from the core territories of the former Angatahauacan empire. The institution of the Temple holds spiritual authority over matters of religious orthodoxy and the interpretation of the Teocuezalin and is organized according to a regimented hierarchy headed by the Tlatocateopixqui or "Holy Speaker", the formal head of the Temple and spiritual leader to the many millions of Cozauists around the world. Although the current Tlatocateopixqui no longer wields the considerable temporal powers of their medieval predecessors since the secularization of government in the 20th century, the office retains its centralized authority over the international network of several thousand Cozauist temples. The legitimacy of the Temple as the governing authority of the Cozauist religion is based on the direct line of succession from Cozauh Tlecoyani himself to all subsequent Tlatocateopixqui.

The Cozauist religion is neither fully polytheistic nor monotheistic, incorporating aspects of both cosmological systems into a semi-henotheistic form of monolatry. Xotlatozca is the supreme god of Cozauism and the focus of worship, but other gods are acknowledged in in specific circumstances permitted to be worshipped in parallel within the Temple. Cozauist mythology and cosmology draws heavily from its polytheistic precursor, a system of traditional religion practiced in pre-Cozauist Zacapican that was comparable to the White Path still prevalent in the modern-day Mutul. The origins of the Cozauist creed and the Teocuezalin's seven codices that modern Cozauists hold sacred can be found in the efforts of Cozauh Tlecoyani, an important lord in medieval Angatahuaca and a notable religious reformer, to establish a centralized and consolidated religious system integrating the beliefs, mythology and ritual practices of Angatahuaca's subject peoples into a single organized institution.

Beleifs

The Cozauist worldview is based on the interactions of numerous cyclical processes of metaphorical and literal life, death and rebirth, which govern mortal life and cycles of the rain and the seasons. Each cycle is represented by a particular mythological being and is thought to be infinitely recurrent containing and being contained by the same cycle on a larger and smaller scale sometimes to grand or infinitesimal to be appreciated by mortal perception. The grandest of the sacred cycles is that of the Sun, which is governed by the unseen god Xotlatozca, the "Throat of Blossoming Flames". In the Cozauist conception of the universe, all of creation is centered on a metaphorical Sun, the source of all light, heat, and life in the universe, which spontaneously ignited itself at the moment of creation and will continue to burn until the time of the apocalypse, when the world will fall into darkness for a time and all cycles of life will be brought to an end. It is then that Xotlatozca, the manifestation of the Universal Sun, will reignite himself and begin a new arc of creation. The cycle of the Universal Sun corresponds to the smaller recurrent cycles of the year, governed by the Turquoise Lord, who is master of the year and the seasons, and also the cycle of the day governed by the Day Lord who governs the movement of the earthly Sun through the sky every day. Both of these deities were worshipped as independent deities in the pre-Cozauist times, but would be integrated into the mythology of the supreme god Xotlatozca by the unified Temple. Under Cozauist doctrine, all cycles and therefore all of the deities of the natural universe, are subordinated to the Supreme Process, the cyclical creation and destruction of the world and the universe by the life cycle of Xotlatozca.

A number of Cozauist scholars theorize that Xotlatozca is the deity governing the metaphorical rebirth of all things, and and so is not only a part of the apocalyptic cycle but is also present within all other cycles. This is the most monotheistic interpretation of Cozauist doctrine that is still accepted within the orthodoxy, as this version of Xotlatozca is the closest to the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God of the monotheistic faiths, comparable to the Sarpetic God. The more polytheistic interpretations of Cozauist mythology and cosmology portray Xotlatozca as the unseen god of creation and destruction, supreme among the other deities in his power and importance to the universe, but closer in essence to the pre-Cozauist deities.

Cozauism reincorporates the pre-Cozauist concept that the gods could be sustained and empowered through sacrifice, although the Teocuezalin explicitly forbade the sacrifice of human lives, considering this to be an insult to the gifts of the gods. Instead, those objects that are burned or given up as offerings in other ways, most often incense, special sacrificial paper, or foods and beverages, are though to give sustenance to the gods, the spirits of the dead, and can similarly influence supernatural factors. It is the Cozauist belief that, although the cycle must inevitably conclude and begin again, it can be extended or otherwise manipulated through the intervention of the divine and the good or bad actions of mortals. In this way, the cycles of rains, life, and the prolonged existence of the world can be influenced through the diligent worship and regime of offerings, sacrifices and prayers of those who follow Cozauh's covenant with the divine.

Practices

Thanksgiving

The Tlazocamati or Thanksgiving is an important daily ritual conducted in the early morning that involves the burning of incense and offerings. The Thanksgiving prayer is the most common daily recitation, giving thanks to the creator Lord Xotlatozca for the gifts and life and creation, and is usually the first prayer taught to children and new converts. The words of the Thanksgiving prayer, as the name suggests, praise Xotlatozca for creating and sustaining the universe by becoming the Sun, and demonstrates humility before the divine which is thought to be the most important Cozauist virtue. The sacrificial portion of the ritual involves burning incense and objects of real or symbolic value to demonstrate commitment to the virtue of humility and to sustain the supreme being through sacrifice.

Ritual Substances

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