#my accent is atrocious and if i try to speak filipino now i end up speaking spanish the SECOND i hit any spanish loan words
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Hiyaw and Himik, the twin deities of noise and silence, of movement and stillness, of action and contemplation.
The church of Taw (from the root word for volumen/ strength of voice), has a dual structure to mirror its deities. Clerics choose to walk either the path of silence - the most radical followers dedicate themselves to a vow of complete silence and contemplation, retreating to monasteries in the most remote regions- or the path of noise - the order dedicated to the service of the church and its followers outside of the monasteries. The central principle of the religion is the duality and balance between the two deities' domains. The silent order serves to balance out the order of noise, to be the stillness to their movement, the deliberation to their action and vice versa. The religion is a relatively small but ancient one, with many devotees among musicians, poets and performers and a great emphasis on ceremony and the performance of rituals that combine the texts of Hiyaw and Himik.
(did i just spend the last two days thinking about making an entire fake religion complete with a clerical structure for my fh sona? yes. did i bastardise the filipino words like "scream" and "quiet" to find matching names for them? also yes.)
#what do i even tag this#its like ive hit an inception level of self-indulgence/ self referential stuff#ribbittrobbit#original characters#character design#idk if u all know this but im filipino btw but im not good at the language#so the bastardisation of filipino words is natural to me and i decided to just lean into it#my accent is atrocious and if i try to speak filipino now i end up speaking spanish the SECOND i hit any spanish loan words#this is what i get for going to spain for undergrad#linguistic struggles on all sides#my art#my ocs#are these even ocs they're more like lore for my oc#whatever#ask me about all the lore that lives in my brain#im begging you
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