Aenirism

The Flower Of Life is typically seen as a primary symbol of Aenirism, representing the Sea Urchin which birthed the first woman, Erra.

Statue of Aenira at the Grand Temple of the Spring in Yarrin, Othaea

Aenirism constitutes a group of henotheistic and occasionally monotheistic religions and beliefs prominent in western Borealis, particularly the nation of Othaea, in which it was founded. Based on the reverence of the sea goddess Aenira, Aenirism postulates that millennia ago, the goddess Aenira overthrew and imprisoned her father Jorrah, the God of Time, while gaining his powers and wiping her similarly tyrannical siblings from existence, thus making herself the one true Goddess. As ruler of both the Lesser Sea (the Ocean) and the Greater Sea (the Cosmos), Aenira holds domain over the creation of life, having initiated abiogenesis and allowed life to flourish from the Water of the Ocean, after the chaotic Era of Fire, in which her tyrannical father Jorrah first created the Cosmos. In the Great Garden of Man, Aenira created the first woman in her image, Erra, who was created pregnant and gave birth to the first man, Eros, in to what is referred as the First Gift.

Cosmologically, Aenirism includes the study of astrology, reverence of the Sea as a mirror of the Cosmos, and a maintained belief in the dichotomy of order and chaos. In most mainstream sects, Aenira is not totally omnipotent. The pure essence of the universe, or cosmological absolute, is explained pandeistically by the death of Jorrah's parents to create the Universe, thus ending an infinite cycle of familial inheritance by the Elder Gods. As the first compassionate Goddess, Aenira is the creator of life, ruler of the sea, and the first being to make a selfless action, while the imprisoned Jorrah represents selfishness, deceit, decay, and death. Death in Aenirism is explained by a three-fold concept of heaven and none, with a good life leading to permanent utopian preservation of the soul in the infinite Fields of Bliss, and a selfish life leading to a decomposition of the soul into the Greater Sea, and body into the Lesser Sea, and an outwardly harmful life leading to imprisonment under Jorrah's foot, where one's soul endures an eternity of regret as they are crushed by the force of "three thousand great waves" every moment.