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In the first few centuries after Xay¹¹'s death, oral tradition played a major role in developing and maintaining folk religious material about Xay¹¹. Later embellishments also claim that she excelled in combat when she was alive. | In the first few centuries after Xay¹¹'s death, oral tradition played a major role in developing and maintaining folk religious material about Xay¹¹. Later embellishments also claim that she excelled in combat when she was alive. | ||
=== In later state religious dogma | === In state religion === | ||
The Thean state first paid no mind to what exactly was believed about Xay¹¹. Emperors just sponsored her cult and gave her higher and higher titles, going along with popular sentiment. However, later she became a subject of state religious dogma because of the need to quell popular unrest... | |||
== Divine attributes == | == Divine attributes == | ||
Revision as of 01:24, 5 May 2025
- This concerns one of many timelines for Angai. The Thean names are in Modern Standard Thean.
- This is a Thean name; the surname is Xay¹¹.
Roodh⁵¹ Xay¹¹ /ɻoːð̞ˤ˥˩ xaj˩˩/, reverentially referred to as Noble Lady Xay¹¹ (Naar¹³ Xay¹¹ /naːɻ˩˧ xaj˩˩/) or Divine Ruler Xay¹¹ (Dlen³³ Xay¹¹ /tˡɛn˧˧ xaj˩˩/) by her worshippers, was an Old Thean xenharmonicist composer and entrepreneur. She was deified posthumously and is worshipped by many ethnic Theans to this day.
Life
Xay¹¹ was born into a technological world much like early 21st-century Earth. She gained wide appeal within the Angaian [what age?] xenharmonic community for her compositions, approach to xenharmony, and various other accomplishments. Xay¹¹ was murdered at the age of 30 at the height of the Late Old Thean political turmoil.
Complete or partial printed transcriptions of a number of her pieces survive (that can be attributed to her with some confidence by later historians). However, there are also many pieces that were spuriously attributed to her.
Growth of the Queen Xay¹¹ cult
Todo: read more of Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero
After Xay¹¹'s death, climate change caused most of the existing Internet infrastructure to submerge underwater, causing most data online to be lost. Thus historical sources from her lifetime are scant, and most available sources are by her acquaintances relying on their memory (they agree that she was extraordinarily creative and funny). Many of these people apparently had supernatural experiences involving her; she appeared to them as a vengeful ghost.
In the first few centuries after Xay¹¹'s death, oral tradition played a major role in developing and maintaining folk religious material about Xay¹¹. Later embellishments also claim that she excelled in combat when she was alive.
In state religion
The Thean state first paid no mind to what exactly was believed about Xay¹¹. Emperors just sponsored her cult and gave her higher and higher titles, going along with popular sentiment. However, later she became a subject of state religious dogma because of the need to quell popular unrest...
Divine attributes
Lady Xay¹¹ is a goddess of creativity, wisdom, and craftiness. Her allegedly unjust death led to her being regarded as a deity of retributive violence able to avenge other victims of injustices (according to post-apocalyptic Thean beliefs, such a death in addition to being a great figure during one's lifetime boosts one's spirit's power posthumously). In fact, she is worshipped by both powers that be (such as police and entrepreneurs) and dissidents in Thean society.
In-universe critical scholarship
The only scholarly consensus about Xay¹¹ is that a woman named Roodh⁵¹ Xay¹¹ existed, that she was a composer and entrepreneur active in the Old Thean xenharmonic movement, and that she was murdered or executed. Detailed reconstructions of her life and work are under debate. Due to the dearth of sources from her life, a minority of Angaian historians posit that Xay¹¹ is a purely mythical figure.