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Yajawil of Barriset B'aatz Yajawil | |||||||||
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| 1661–19th century | |||||||||
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| Capital | Barriset City | ||||||||
| Religion | White Path Azdarin | ||||||||
| Government | Dukedom | ||||||||
| B'atz Yajaw | |||||||||
| Legislature | K'ak Holpop | ||||||||
| Historical era | Mutulese Ochran | ||||||||
• Established | 1661 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 19th century | ||||||||
| Currency | Baat | ||||||||
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The Yajawil of Barriset, also known as Mutulese Barriset, B'aatz, or B'aatz Yajawil, was a Mutulese province including the entirety of Barriset Island, in the Ozeros Sea. It was formed after the fall of the Iifae Caliphate of Barriset to oppose the Second Iifae Holy War for Barriset and protect the Mutuleses interests in the region. It was directly placed under the K'uhul Ajaw authority, with the B'atz Yajaw serving as his representative and governor of the island.
History
First Mutuleses Establishments
First Holy War and Caliphate
Second Holy War
Population in the Mutuleses Concessions grew quickly after the establishment of the Caliphate. Oxidentaleses remained a rare sight, but many Barrisetis emigrated to find work as dockers, shop-owners, or sailors. To ease relations with the Mutuleses, many of the wealthier traders who had regular contact with them converted to the White Path, alongside most of the inhabitants of the Concessions. This is when the first sizeable K'uh Nahs were erected.
Religious tensions between the Iifae and the White Pilgrims started to emerge during this period, leading to criticism toward the Caliphate for leaving too much freedom to the Nuk Nahob. In 1649, the Caliph made some attempt to limit the growth of the White Path, such as making |Iifae the only religion openly practicable outside of the Concessions, with the flux of people in and out of these districts being now closely monitored by the Caliph. This sparkled an outrage from the Mutuleses traders who raised the number of Tulotairi militias and warships present in Barriset as a form of protest, alongside diplomatic lobbying to get the decrees redacted. By the end of the year, the Caliph had been forced to back down, abandon the controls at the Concessions' gates, and proclaim religious freedom all over the island.
After the failure of the caliphate to reign in the Mutuleses, parts of the Iifae clergy started to radicalize, openly calling for the departure of the Oxidentaleses, the crushing of "Those who turned away from Mesfin", and even for the overthrow of the Caliph who had been incapable of enforcing Yen laws. Despite heavy repressions, these imam-priests ended up annointing a "new" tribal lord as Caliph who began a new Holy War against the Betrayers and the Infidels.
The second Tabanaa started in 1656 with the siege of the Concessions and the assault on the Caliph's palace. Deathtoll numbered in the thousands after a week of violence, but ultimately the radicals were driven off the cities by the Tulotairi and the remnants of the First Caliph's troops. The rest of the Holy War was a long campaign of guerilla and counter-insurgency, culminating with the capture and sacrifice of the Insurgent Caliph and of most of his clergy in 1661, even if remnants of the Second Caliphate would continue the fight for many more years.
While the Nuk Nahob present in Barriset had organized themselves into Kuchkabal, they ended up electing to call for the Divine Throne to send judges, lawyers, and administrators to the island to takeover the task of pacifying Barriset, managing the island, and driving off the Iifae insurgents. In 1660, the K'uhul Ajaw proclaimed the constitution of Barriset as a Yajawil. The new B'aatz Yajaw and his administration reached the island, officializing direct Mutulese control over it.
Economy
Culture
Religion
When they discovered Barriset and the Tuluran coast, the Mutuleses were fascinated by Azdarin and Scholars and priests among the Nuk Nahob started to study this "new" religion. They notably built parallel with their own practices, and they understood Azdarin to be a Cult of Chaak and of the Mamlabs. Notably, the Aj K'in Yaxja wrote that the Yens had "reached a profound understanding of the nature of the Cycles, and comprehend the unity that exist between the Rain, the Rivers, and the Ocean. They are a people entirely dedicated to the cult of Water under all its aspects, but mainly under the traits of Mesfin, whom seem to have been the human incarnation of Chaak and a great ruler of his people, which mean there was at one point two K'uhul Ajaw on this World. However, it seems that his bloodline has dried out with the ages, alongside his empire. They scatter many liquids in honor of Mesfin-Chaak, except for blood.
Despite this profound relationship with Chaak, it seems that the Yen stray away from the Truth in that they mistakingly consider Chaak to be a Monad. They don't consider that any other god exist and that there's no god above him. In that, they're not too dissimilar from the worshippers of Ox Kakixto their north and it is my fear that this proximity has led to many mistakes that have blurred their understanding of the Divine."
This view on Azdarin and the convertions of many slaves, workers, and traders to the White Path has led to the development of a very local understanding of Sak B'e. Chroniclers of the period resume that the White Pilgrims of Barriset carried over many Yen practices. Mesfin notably, continued to be worshipped with the title of Och'Chaak or Western Chaak. Amsalech the Seeress is also the object of a minor cult, parallel to that of Ez the Dwarf-Magician. Similarily they fused the Azdarin practices of Libations with the White Path's bloodletting.
Tensions were high between the Iifae and the White Pilgrims, the two principal denominations of the island.