Supreme Being

Supreme Being of Alalaš in casual speech is the divine power central to the Thousander Faith. Old Dabrakhami religion was a decentralised, polytheistic one with gods and godesses for every single village, town, fountain, mountain, river, sea or phenomen. This pantheon was somewhat simplified during official canons restricting the number of divinities to around a thousand hence the name of religion.

However already in the old homeland debates were led among high-ranking theologists that all of the gods and godesses would be an incarnation, an avatar of a central, allmighty being who merely hides behind them. This opinion became prevalent during some times before the foundation of Hadašham, but the information was kept restricted in scholarly circles. Harko I was among the few who knew about and had staunch monotheists in his new, hierarchistic church to led the priests in the according direction.

Transition was smooth as laic authority silenced dissenting tones. In thousander theology the Supreme being is considered a bodyless otherwordly phenomen who changes shapes and personality at the whim of his will. As that both good and bad comes from him, and no one can escape his power. Such invoking his avatars is an activity in vain, thus forbidden for ordinary people.

Both the eastern sea rite and the western rock rite agrees in all theological premises, discord is more a matter of politics in questions of wordly authority over the church. Westerners see their orhana as the governor of the Supreme Being, while eastern church maintaines that the emperor has superiority to the ecclesial hierarchy. There are two orhanas one seated in Kartam with western affilitaion while the other seated in Tir-Našadar subordinationed to the eastern emperor.