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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]]
| image            =
| image_size        = 300px
| caption          =
| 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]], [[Happara]], [[Ninva|Ninva desert]]
| territory        = {{wp|Status quo ante bellum|No territorial changes}}
| result            = Stalemate; both sides claim victory
* Fahrani failure to capture Charnean territories and bolster Gharib separatism in [[Hatheria]].
* Charnean failure to destroy Fahrani military power.
* Fahrani dictator [[Sabir Afzal Rahmani]] steps down.  
* Treaty of Kahrash establishes armistice.
| combatant1        = '''{{flag|Fahran}}'''
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = '''Supported by:'''
|{{flag|Vardana}}
|{{flag|Alanahr}}
|{{flag|Latium}}
}}
| combatant2        = '''{{flag|Charnea}}'''
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = '''Supported by:'''
|{{flag|Mutul}}
|{{flag|Itayana}}
}}
| commander1        = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Fahran}} '''[[Sabir Afzal Rahmani]]'''}}<br/> (Prime Minister of Fahran)
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = Others:


}}
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.
| commander2        = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Charnea}} '''[[Baseel Madoun]]'''}}<br />(Premier of Charnea)
{{Collapsible list
| bullets = no
| title = Others:
| {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Charnea}} [[Imran Dey]]}}
| {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Charnea}} [[Amastan Tifyet]]}}
| {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Charnea}} [[Othman Tahenkot]]}}
| {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Charnea}} [[Martuf Lamine]]}}
| {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Charnea}} [[Rali Zighzan]]}}
}}
| units1            = see [[Order of battle during the Ninvite War|order of battle]]
| units2            = see [[Order of battle during the Ninvite War|order of battle]]
| strength1        = '''Start of war:'''
<br />210,000–250,000 soldiers
{{Collapsible list
|title = '''More:'''
|700–900 tanks,
<br />1,000 armoured vehicles,
<br />300 artillery pieces,
<br />485 fighter-bombers,
<br />750 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1986:'''
<br />450,000 soldiers,
<br />700 tanks,
<br />2,700 armored vehicles,
<br />400 artillery pieces,
<br />350 aircraft,
<br />1,000 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1987:'''
<br />600,000 soldiers,
<br />1,500+ tanks,
<br />3,500–4,000 armored vehicles
<br />600 heavy artillery pieces,
<br />500 fighter-bombers,
<br />1,200 helicopters
}}
| strength2        = '''Start of war:'''
<br />300,000 soldiers
{{Collapsible list
|title = '''More:'''
|1,000 tanks,
<br />4,000 armored vehicles,
<br />1,400 artillery pieces,
<br /> 380 fighter-bombers,
<br /> 350 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1986:'''
<br />575,000 soldiers,
<br />1,200 tanks,
<br />2,300 armoured vehicles,
<br />1,700 artillery pieces,
<br />450 aircraft,
<br />580 helicopters
<br />
<br />'''In 1987:'''
<br />700,000 soldiers,
<br />1,500 tanks,
<br />3,000 armored vehicles
<br />4,000 artillery pieces,
<br />900 fighter-bombers,
<br />1,000 helicopters
}}
| casualties1      = '''Military dead:'''
<br />400,000–600,000
<br />
{{Collapsible list
| title = More:
| 323,220–360,000 {{wp|killed in action|KIA}},
<br /> 60,711 {{wp|missing in action|MIA}}
<br /> (Fahrani claim)
<br /> 800,000 killed or captured
<br /> (Charnean claim)
<br /> 320,000–500,000 {{wp|Wounded in action|WIA}}
<br />60,000–62,875 {{wp|Prisoner of war|POW}}
<br />11,000–26,000 {{wp|civilian casualties|civilian dead}}
<br />
<br /> '''Economic loss:'''
<br /> [[Latin solidus|$]]627&nbsp;billion
}}
| casualties2      = '''Military dead:''' <br />
405,000–500,000 <br />
{{Collapsible list
| title = More:
|500,000 {{wp|Wounded in action|WIA}}
<br /> 70,000 {{wp|Prisoner of war|POW}}
<br />
<br />'''Economic loss:'''
<br />[[Latin solidus|$]]561&nbsp;billion
}}
| casualties3      = '''Civilian dead:''' 100,000+
}}


The '''Ninvite War''' ({{wp|Arabic|Gharbaic}}: حرب نينوى, {{wp|Tamashek}}: ⴰⵎⵢⴻⵔ ⵏⵉⵏⵠⴰ) was an armed conflict between [[Fahran]] and [[Charnea]] that began on April 17, 1985 with the Charnean declaration of war. The outbreak of hostilities was preceded by the escalating [[Akzay War|guerilla conflict]] in the eastern Charnean region of [[Hatheria]] occurring from 1982 to the outbreak of the Ninvite War and continuing until 1986. The Charnean rationale for declaring open war with Fahran was the cited need to prevent the Gharib pan-nationalist regime of Fahrani prime minister [[Sabir Afzal Rahmani]] from supporting the predominantly Gharbaic rebel groups active in the east of Charnea and preventing the formation of a Fahrani-backed separatist state in Hatheria. Fahran cited numerous Charnean military incursions across the two nations' shared border as its {{wp|Casus belli|''casus belli''}}, characterizing the Charnean activities and later declaration of war as an unprovoked aggression towards neutral Fahran whilst denying Charnean allegations of Fahrani military support for Hatherian rebels. The conflict would earn its name two weeks into the start of open hostilities, through the remarks of Charnean Premier [[Baseel Madoun]] stating that "Fahran [had] provoked a war that would light the Ninva on fire".  
==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 {{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.


As part of the age-old [[Fahrani-Charnean conflict]], the outbreak of the Ninvite War inflamed regional tensions that had long simmered below the surface as a result of centuries old grievances. The scale of the war quickly drew the attention of many nations in the [[Ajax#Scipia|east Scipian region]] and the [[Association of Ozeros Nations]] of which Fahran was a member. Charnea drew military and economic support initially from local allies such as those in [[Itayana]] but would later be forced to look further afield, petitioning for aid from distant [[Mutul]]. Fahran was aided by neighboring [[Vardana]] with which the nation had coordial relations, and would begin to purchase arms from [[Alanahr]] and [[Latium]] as the war escalated.  
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.


The conflict would be one of the bloodiest wars of the 20th century, rivalled only by the [[West Scipian Wars|Third and Fourth West Scipian Wars]] for the title of the largest war on the Scipian continent in that period. More than 1 million lives would be claimed by the fighting, with at least one in ten of those killed being civilian inhabitants of the conflict zone. The loss of life would be compounded by the economic loss of over [[Latin solidus|$]]1 trillion as a result of war-related economic stress and direct disruption of economic activity by the war. The regions of eastern Charnea, western Fahran and the territory of [[Happara]] later involved in the war are significantly impacted by the effects of the war even in the present day.
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.  


==Background==
==Practices==
===Fahran-Charnea relations===
===Thanksgiving===
===Akzay War===
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.
The insurgency in Hatheria, known in Charnea as the Akzay or "Bastard" war, began as a result of a severe drought in eastern Charnea in 1982. The Charnean government tightened its water controls in reaction and deployed the [[Raxla]] into the region to enforce its policies, which involved the redistribution of water from the majority Gharbaic eastern Hatheria to the [[Deshrians|Deshrian]] and [[Tenerians|Tenerian]] majority areas in the central and western portions of east Charnea. This mitigated the drought for the western regions but caused a state of severe water shortage in the east, sparking off unrest. The Gharbaic minority in Charnea, long opposed to the rule of the Tenerian majority government, entered a state of armed resistance to the Raxla which forced the intervention of the [[Imperial Charnean Army]]. The Gharibs unilaterally declared their independence from the Charnean Empire, claiming themselves to be the independent nation of Hatheria with its capital in [[Hamath]], an act which marked the start of the Akzay war. The Gharib insurgency struggled for years in their attempts to force the capture of the Hatherian city of Hamath, their claimed capital city, which remained in Charnean hands for the duration of the conflict.
===Ritual Substances===
 
The regime of Prime Minister Rahmani in Fahran, directly bordering the Charnean region of Hatheria, was sympathetic to the cause of the rebellion. The ideology of the Rahmani government was a mixture of secularism and pan-gharibist nationalism, which inclined the Fahrani state to align itself with Gharib nationalist separatists fighting an independence struggle against the non-Gharib Charnean state. Charnean repeatedly accused Fahran of supporting the rebels with funding and weapons, calling into question the providence of many items found in rebel bases, caches and in the possession of rebel fighters on several occasions. The Fahrani government denied the Charnean accusations on each occasion, claiming the discoveries to have been planted by the Charneans themselves to implicate Fahrani involvement. The Charnean army, unmoved by the denials of the Rahmani government, began a series of operations to cut off the supply of weapons, ammunition, food and volunteers across the Fahrani-Charnean border. These began as military operations within the context of the Akzay War, which re-established nominal Charnean government control over the area of the Fahrani-Charnean border, but would later escalate further as a result of rebel activity and lead to the start of the Ninvite War.
===Border Conflicts===
The Imperial Charnean Army began military operations near the shared border in late 1984 as part of their effort to cut off the rebel forces from their suspected source of arms and supplies. This came at the tail of two years of frustration and consistent failure by the ICA to trap and defeat the rebels on the field of battle, and represented a change in tactics from pursuit of a tactical defeat of the rebels to a strategic one. However, the borders of eastern Charnea with many neighboring countries are generally open desert or otherwise hostile terrain that was difficult to monitor and fully secure with the technology of the early 1980s, forcing the Charnean army to take on a more aggressive approach in blocking the entry of any supply that might be smuggled through their blockade at the border. The ICA began a series of raids and ambushes in early 1985, several of which led to confrontations and even conflict with Fahrani forces at the border. On more than one occasion, Charnean units violated Fahrani territory in their operations to block Fahrani supply convoys from breaking their blockade and resupplying the rebels under siege across the Hatherian region. The Rahmani government issued protests and threatened reprisals for these border incursions, escalating to a major diplomatic incident between the two nations. While some parties in both governments had been involved in negotiations towards an end to the conflict since 1983, these had seen no progress and now broke off altogether. At some point in late 1984 or early 1985, high ranking members of the Imperial Charnean Army and the Charnean state reached the conclusion that the Rahmani regime in Fahran would continue to foment resistance to Charnean rule in the east under any circumstance, and that breaking the back of the Fahrani state and demilitarizing it would be the only way to secure a lasting peace in Hatheria and the rest of the Charnean east. Charnea had already amassed a significant force in Hatheria and the border region to fight the ongoing Akzay War, and so after only a brief buildup of forces, the Charnean Empire declared war on the Kingdom of Fahran.
==Course of the War==
===1985===
====Charnean Incursion====
====Fahrani counter-attack====
====War in Hatheria====
===1986===
====End of the Hatherian campaign====
====Invasion of Happara====
====Breakthrough in the Hasidmawt====
===1987===
====Struggle in Western Fahran====
====Ihemod Line====
====Stalemate====
====Ceasefire====
==Aftermath==
===Casualties===
===Economic situation===
===End of the Rahmani Regime===
==Foreign Involvement==

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