Vithyrianism
Vithyrianism is the Jerichan faith tradition devoted to Vithyrex, the Cyclops: the force of love, passion, obsession, and creative madness. It is common in artist communes, salons, theaters, pleasure districts, and lover's shrines.[1]
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Overview
Vithyrianism is the Jerichan faith tradition devoted to Vithyrex, the Cyclops: the force of love, passion, obsession, and creative madness. It is common in artist communes, salons, theaters, pleasure districts, and lover's shrines.[1]
Vithyrex, the Cyclops
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Vithyrex is the force that draws hidden desire into the open. His influence can appear as love at first sight, artistic obsession, reckless confession, unbearable longing, or the realization that one's life is too small for the heart inside it.[3]
Love transforms the self
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Vithyrians treat love and overwhelming emotion as divine because they remake identity. Older sects often consider obsession sacred; gentler sects argue that love without care is only hunger.[4]
Frenzied offerings and mirror rites
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Common rites include unrevised emotional art, Cyclops's Day Mirror Rites, Roses of Madness, devotional duels, public confession, and salons where passion and performance blur.[5]
Pure Vithyrians, Compassionate Spiral, Crimson Salon
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Major branches include Pure Vithyrians, the Compassionate Spiral, the Tragic Flame, the Crimson Salon, the Order of the Many Eyes, and the Beating Chorus.[6]
Renaissance or domestication
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Vithyrianism is public again after Centrum censorship, but modern followers argue over whether the faith must mature into compassion or remain dangerous enough to be true to Vithyrex.[7]
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- [1] Vithyrianism↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference vithyrianism; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] Vithyrianism↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference vithyrianism; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] Vithyrianism · Vithyrex, the Cyclops↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference vithyrianism#power-vithyrex-the-cyclops; source entry 1 - [4] Vithyrianism · Love transforms the self↩1↩2
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Published reference vithyrianism#doctrine-love-transforms-the-self; source entry 2 - [5] Vithyrianism · Frenzied offerings and mirror rites↩1↩2
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Published reference vithyrianism#practice-frenzied-offerings-and-mirror-rites; source entry 3 - [6] Vithyrianism · Pure Vithyrians, Compassionate Spiral, Crimson Salon↩1↩2
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Published reference vithyrianism#sects-pure-vithyrians-compassionate-spiral-crimson-salon; source entry 4 - [7] Vithyrianism · Renaissance or domestication↩1↩2
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Published reference vithyrianism#modern-renaissance-or-domestication; source entry 5