Saints in Atyaism
Within Atyaism and fidemology, saints, specifically the Seven Saints are the direct descendants and the primary disciples of the Great Wolf according to Tanulas. Saints are believed to have been major dieties that ruled over the land during the Proto-Imperial Era. Every individual saint represented the Seven Races of the Empire and have been portrayed by the most dominant and powerful Imperial tribes within The Empire. One of the major differences between Orthodox Atyaism and Heterodox Atyaism is their view of the saints. It is often thought in Orthodox Atyaism fidemology that the saints were entirely divine beings and closer to the Great Wolf than they were to mortal beings. Heterodox Atyaism traditionally places saints to be in the same category as Apostles and Paragons, where they are not entirely divine beings.
The third book in the Tanulas, the Utazások, the saints are first mentioned by the Divination of the Saints. Each of the Seven Apostles was created from different body parts of the Great Wolf, and were divinated when he ascended into godhood. They journeyed together in the Harag until
There are two books that were written by the saints, the Epistles of Asma and the Epistles of András. Asma does not refer to any of the Saints by their actual name at all when she authored the Epistles of Asma, instead opting to give them some form of a nickname. András refers to the saints initially by their name, followed by their race. His writing follows a similar pattern to Asma, where he stops referring to the Saints by their actual name and only refers to them by their race. During the Epistles of Asma, the Saints are driven apart at the behest of Asma, to proselytize and populate the land. The individual personalities of each of the saints were described in detail in the Epistles of András. Saints were known to have conflicted with each other from time to time, the most important of these was the Aiasz-Asman Conflict over the wolf symbolism that was not of the Great Wolf.
List
| Tanulas | Asma | András | Functions and Symbolism |
|---|---|---|---|
| János | "The Traditionalist" | János ("the Balaton") | Leader of the saints and the first of the seven. He is the patron of the Balaton tribe, and is often associated with traditions, minimalism, and survival. He was crafted from the snout of the Wolf. |
| Bernát | "The Pious" | Bernát ("the Csongrád") | The second born of the seven and the most religiously fervent of them. He is the patron of the Csongrád tribe, and is often associated with monasticism, health and science. |
| Bertalan | "The Noble" | Bertalan ("the Hévíz") | The third born of the seven and the most pompous of them. He is the patron of the Hévíz tribe, and is often associated with wealth, nobility, extravagance and social heirarchy. |
| Aiasz | "The Disciplined" | Aiasz ("the Salgó") | The fourth born of the seven and the most orderly of them. He is the patron saint of the Salgó tribe, and is often associated with justice, military order, and discipline. |
| András | "The Enlightened" | András ("the Esztergom") | The fifth born of the seven and the most knowledgable of them. He is the patron saint of the Esztergom tribe, and is often associated with knowledge, literature, and archiving. |
| Árpád | "The Illustrious" | Árpád ("the Kossuth") | The sixth born of the seven and the most dramatic of them. He is the patron saint of the Kossuth tribe, and is often associated with drama, love, emotion, and passion. |
| Asma | "The Valiant" | Asma ("the Hegyhát") | The last born of the seven and the most violent of them. She is the only female saint in the Seven Saints. She is the patron of the Hegyhát tribe, and is often associated with war, destruction, conversion and imperialism. |