Aďivro
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Aďivro (from Caď. aiďie ibro "book of the gods") is the holy book of Caďinorian paganism. Its compilation started in the early Dark Years as a reaction to the decline of Caďinas in general, and particularly to the pressure that the Red Cabal had put on priests to preach obedience to its rule. Presumably, the people who pushed the Aďivro project thought that a codification of the religion's teachings would prevent rulers and others from changing them to fit their needs, or simply forgetting them. Emperor Cuomolondos (Comblon) ordered the compilation of the Aďivro in 2290; it became an enormous project that was not finished before 2350.
In form, the Aďivro is a manual of liturgy, organized by the calendar. From this skeleton the compilers went off on every tangent, inserting homilies, retelling myths, defining the roles of priests, recalling the lessons of history, and even explaining points of science and agriculture. The book was intended as a catchall reference work for priests, it ended up as the Dark Years' chief source of knowledge. Even now, Verdurians prefer to organize their books by calendar, in order to imitate Aďivro.
The book was written in what the priests thought to be classical Caďinor, but has some influences of the vernacular which was under way to become Old Verdurian, similar to our own world's medieval Latin.
| Author: Stilgar |
