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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.
| conflict          = Ninvite War
 
| partof            = [[Fahrani-Charnean conflict]]
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.
| image            =
 
| image_size        = 300px
==Beleifs==
| caption          =
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.
| date              = 17 April 1985 – 10 December 1987<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=04|day1=17|year1=1985|month2=12|day2=10|year2=1987}})
 
| place            = [[Fahran]], [[Charnea]], [[Ninva|Ninva desert]]
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.
| territory        = {{wp|Status quo ante bellum|No territorial changes}}
 
| result            = Stalemate; both sides claim victory
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.  
* Fahrani failure to capture Charnean territories and bolster Gharib separatism in [[Hatheria]].  
 
* Charnean failure to destroy Fahrani military power and eradicate [[Azdarin|Azdarist]] resistance to the government.
==Practices==
* Fahrani dictator [[Sabir Afzal Rahmani]] steps down.
===Thanksgiving===
* [[Forum of Nations|FoN negotiated]] cease-fire
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.
| combatant1        = '''{{flag|Fahran}}'''
===Ritual Substances===
----
{{plainlist|
* {{flagicon image|Former Flag of KDP.svg}} [[Kurdistan Democratic Party|KDP]]
* {{flagicon image|Flag of PUK.png}} [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan|PUK]]
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} [[Kurdish Mujahideen]]
* {{flagicon image|ISCI flag.svg}} [[Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq|ISCI]]
* {{flagicon image|Islamic Dawa Party Flag.svg}} [[Islamic Dawa Party]]
* {{Flagicon image|InfoboxHez.PNG}} [[Hezbollah]]
* [[Shia Islam|Shia]] volunteers{{efn|from:
* {{nowrap|{{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1987–1992).svg}} [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]
}}
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = '''Supported by:'''
|{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|Israel}}
|{{flagdeco|Libyan Arab Jamahiriya|1977}} [[Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya|Libya]]
|{{flag|North Korea|1948}}
|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|{{nowrap|{{flag|South Yemen}}}}
|{{flag|Syria}}
}}
}}
}}
| combatant2        = '''{{flag|Charnea}}'''
----
{{plainlist|
* {{flagicon image|State_flag_of_Iran_(1964–1980).svg}} [[National Council of Resistance of Iran|NCRI]]
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Arabistan.svg}} [[Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan|DRFLA]]
* [[Arabs|Arab]] volunteers
* {{flag|Egypt}}
* {{flag|Sudan}}
* {{nowrap|{{flag|Jordan}}}}
* {{flag|Morocco}}
* {{flag|North Yemen}}
* {{flag|Sudan}}
* {{flag|Tunisia|1959}}
}}
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = '''Supported by:'''
|{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|East Germany}}
|{{flag|Italy}}
| {{flagicon image|Flag of France (lighter variant).svg}} [[France]]
|{{flag|Kuwait}}
|{{flag|Sudan}} (from 1982)
|{{flag|Saudi Arabia}}
|{{flag|Soviet Union}} (from 1982)
|{{nowrap|{{flag|United Kingdom}}}}
|{{nowrap|{{flag|United States}}}}
|{{flag|West Germany}}
}}
| commander1        = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Fahran}} '''[[Sabir Afzal Rahmani]]'''}}<br/> (Prime Minister of Fahran)
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = Others:
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Abolhassan Banisadr]]<br />([[President of Iran]], initially the commander-in-chief, impeached and ousted in 1981)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]]<br />(President of Iran, assassinated in 1981)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Ali Khamenei]]<br />(President of Iran)
|{{nowrap|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]]}}<br />(Head of Parliament and member of Supreme National Defence Council, lately the commander-in-chief)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Mohammad-Javad Bahonar]]<br />([[Prime Minister of Iran]], assassinated in 1981)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Mir-Hossein Mousavi]]<br />(Prime Minister of Iran)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Valiollah Fallahi]], Brig. Gen.<br />(Chief of Staff, killed in plane crash in 1981)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad]], Brig. Gen.<br />(Chief of Staff)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Esmaeil Sohrabi]], Colonel<br />(Chief of Staff)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Ali Shahbazi]], Brig. Gen.<br />(Chief of Staff)
|{{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Mohsen Rezaee]]<br />(Commander of IRGC)
|{{Flagicon image|Former Flag of KDP.svg}} [[Massoud Barzani]]<br />(Leader of the [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]])
|{{Flagicon image|Flag of PUK.png}} [[Jalal Talabani]]<br />(Leader of the [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]])
|{{Flagicon image|Flag of Kurdistan.svg}} [[Chenar Faraj]]<br />(Leader of the [[Peshmerga]])
|{{Flagicon image|Flag of PUK.png}} [[Nawshirwan Mustafa]]<br />(Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
|{{Flagicon image|ISCI flag.svg}} [[Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]]<br />(Leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq)
|{{Flagicon image|ISCI flag.svg}} [[Abdul Aziz al-Hakim]]<br />(Leader of the [[Badr Organization|ISCI Military Wing]])
}}
| commander2        = {{nowrap|{{flag|Charnea}} '''[[Baseel Madoun]]'''}}<br />([[Premier of Charnea]])
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = Others:
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]]<br />(Deputy chairman, Revolutionary Command Council)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Ali Hassan al-Majid]]<br />(General and Iraqi Intelligence Service head)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Taha Yassin Ramadan]]<br />(General and Deputy Party Secretary)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Abid Hamid Mahmud]]<br />(Lieutenant General)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Salah Aboud Mahmoud]]<br />(General)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Tariq Aziz]]<br />(Foreign Minister and Revolutionary Command Council member)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Adnan Khairallah]]<br />(Minister of Defence)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Saddam Kamel]]<br />(Republican Guard commander)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Uday Hussein]]<br />(Son of Saddam Hussein)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Qusay Hussein]]<br />(Son of Saddam Hussein)
|{{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Maher Abd al-Rashid]]<br />(General)
|{{flagicon image|State_flag_of_Iran_(1964–1980).svg}} [[Massoud Rajavi]]<br />(President of the [[National Council of Resistance of Iran]])
}}|{{nowrap|{{Flagicon image|Flag of Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistana Îranê.png}} [[Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou]]}}<br />(Leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan)
| units1            = see [[Order of battle during the Iran–Iraq War|order of battle]]
| units2            = see [[Order of battle during the Iran–Iraq War|order of battle]]
| strength1        = '''Start of war:'''
<br />110,000–150,000 soldiers
{{Collapsible list
|title = '''More:'''
|1,700–2,100 tanks,
<br />(500 operable)
<br />1,000 armoured vehicles,
<br />300 artillery pieces,
<br />485 fighter-bombers,
<br />(205 fully operational)
<br />750 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1982:'''
<br />350,000 soldiers,
<br />700 tanks,
<br />2,700 armoured vehicles,
<br />400 artillery pieces,
<br />350 aircraft,
<br />700 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1988:'''
<br />600,000 soldiers,
<br />1,500+ tanks,{{NoteTag|Pollack gives the figure as 1,000 for fully operational tanks in April of 1988. Cordesman gives the figure as 1,500+ operational tanks in March 1988 (1,298 were captured by the Iraqis by July 1988, 200 were still in the hands of the Iranians, and an unknown number were destroyed), with an unknown number in workshops.}}
<br />800 armoured vehicles,
<br />600 heavy artillery pieces,
<br />60–80 fighter-bombers,
<br />70–90 helicopters
}}
| strength2        = '''Start of war:'''
<br />200,000 soldiers
{{Collapsible list
|title = '''More:'''
|2,800 tanks,
<br />4,000 APCs,
<br />1,400 artillery pieces,
<br /> 380 fighter-bombers,
<br /> 350 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1982:'''
<br />175,000 soldiers,
<br />1,200 tanks,
<br />2,300 armoured vehicles,
<br />400 artillery pieces,
<br />450 aircraft,
<br /> 180 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1988:'''
<br />1,500,000 soldiers,
<br />~5,000 tanks,
<br />8,500–10,000 APCs,
<br />6,000–12,000 artillery pieces,
<br />900 fighter-bombers,
<br />1,000 helicopters
}}
| casualties1      = '''Military dead:'''
<br />200,000–600,000
<br />
{{Collapsible list
| title = More:
| 123,220–160,000 [[killed in action|KIA]],
<br /> 60,711 [[missing in action|MIA]]
<br /> (Iranian claim)
<br /> 800,000 killed
<br /> (Iraqi claim)
<br /> 320,000–500,000 [[Wounded in action|WIA]]
<br />40,000–42,875 [[Prisoner of war|POW]]
<br />11,000–16,000 [[civilian casualties|civilian dead]]
<br />
<br /> '''Economic loss:'''
<br /> $627&nbsp;billion
}}
| casualties2      = '''Military dead:''' <br />
105,000–500,000 <br />
{{Collapsible list
| title = More:
|400,000 [[Wounded in action|WIA]]
<br /> 70,000 [[Prisoner of war|POW]]
<br />
<br />'''Economic loss:'''
<br />$561&nbsp;billion
}}
| casualties3      = '''Civilian dead:''' 100,000+{{NoteTag|The total 100,000+ civilians killed during the war does not include 50,000–200,000 Kurdish civilians killed in the [[Imlil genocide]]. }}
}}

Latest revision as of 19:39, 26 June 2024

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