Fonδaiš Wīštā̊
Pontōis Wītōs encompasses the collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythologies that originated in the Northian culture in the forms of both public religion and cults.
Name
The name Pontōis Wītōs is dissolved from the phrase pontōihwītōs, from the Epic of Samana or Samanēsongos verse 1120 (GNr. 449), where a correct attitude towards sacred things is demanded by a disgruntled, downtrodden traveller speaking to a priest who obviously does not take his position seriously. The traveller, whose home was destroyed by floods, seeks to enter the service of a variety of merchants, herdsmen, and craftsmen, but nowhere is his service enduring. Having learned that the priest would rather catch a fever than hold the annual festival, the traveller seeks to blame the ill of inconstancy or transience in his life on the priest's dereliction of duty: for as I travel from land to land / and land and land turn me away / thou swayest from god to god / denying every his proper due.
The word pontōis is the plural of pontōs "path, way", and wītōs is an adjective meaning "seen, known". Emologically speaking, Pontōis Wītōs is ultimately from Proto-Erani-Eracuran (PEE) *póntoh₁s and *wéydtos; however, because the name is a poetic term of no obvious antiquity, appearing in a younger part of the Epics, it is not generally thought this combination of words had any spiritual significance at the level of PEE culture.