Added September 28, 2007:
I've reduced most of what was my conworld into a myth within the conworld,
so for example the Mappamensam and Adabawa you might
remember me talking about earlier are now just deities of a conreligion.
This religion, Pabapatapura, believes that humans can and
do become gods and therefore all of the gods in the religion are people
who lived on Tebbala at one point or another.
Major Deities
Evil
Pibrapa: Known as Pibo in his youth, Pibrapa turned evil in his
early teens and at one point was literally in control of
the entire world. He was beat back, however, by the devilish Pin, who was
jealous of his power and fearful for her own existence.
| Pabappa | Andanese | Meaning |
| Pibo | Pinuha | Cold Wind |
| Piprap | Pipalapa | Abductor of Children |
| Mara | Mapuila | Gravity |
Waptina: This woman was originally Pibrapa's teacher and took
him in after he killed his father. At one point, she
literally controlled the entire world, but was later dethroned by Pibrapa.
With Pibrapa, she fought against the attacks of Pin but
was defeated. During her reign, she declared herself the only god and
forced the other gods to worship her. Those who agreed all
eventually lost their godhood, with the exception of Pibrapa, who became a
devil, and Pin, whose power was even greater than
Waptina's.
| Pabappa | Andanese | Meaning |
| Waptina | Hantiina | -------- |
| Palnap | -------- | -------- |
| -------- | Ia | -------- |
Good
Mappamensam: This woman traveled around the world building up an
army to help fight Adabawa, who aimed to exterminate the
Pabaps and all their allies. She lost, but weakened Adabawa enough to
spare the Pabaps. After her defeat, she became Sankha,
"the sleeper", a powerless god waiting for the proper time to re-emerge
and re-establish control over the universe. Pabaps do not
refer to her as the Sleeper, however; they only refer to her by her life
name, Mappamensam. Most Pabaps believe that evil is the
result of Mappa's power having been broken by Adabawa and that when Mappa
returns to power there will no longer be evil in the
world. Thus Mappa is the central figure of Pabapatapura.
| Pabappa | Andanese | Meaning |
| Mappamensam | Hapa-Haisaa | Breeder of Armies |
| -------- | Sankha | Sleeper |
Wanosa: Also known as Kuvdamos, this political leader allied
with Mappamensam and helped keep out Adabawa. He also
helped spread a new religion into territory that had been mostly
practicing aboriginal Camian religions up until this time. He is
associated with taking pacifism to suicidal extremes and not being an
impressive leader.
His power is more about relating directly to people. He is believed to
have the power to break a demon's control over a person so
long as that demon is not actually inside the person (in which case it is
too late). Wanosa is associated with the Moonshine
culture and language and is often depicted as speaking Moonshine while the
other gods speak Pabappa. When Mappamensam lost her
powers and went into a prolonged sleep, Wanosa lost his powers too, as he
was dependent on her. Thus he is considered secondary to
Mappa and is not the central figure of Pabapatapura or any religion.
| Pabappa | Andanese | Meaning |
| Wanosa | Haniuhu | -------- |
| Kuvdamos | -------- | (Moonshine loan) |
Amoral
Pin: Pin is often depicted as a small girl because it was at a
very young age that she developed the ability to shape her
body into any form. With this power she created a massive army of clones
of herself, called rosps, and began to cooperate with
Adabawa in attempting to take over the world. But when the two devils,
Piprap and Waptina, amassed power even greater than Pin's,
Pin switched sides and helped defend the Pabaps against Adabawa and the
devils. Although she won this war, her power was weakened
and the result was a long chain of human rulers as opposed to direct rule
by the gods.
Pin is often associated with the color purple. Although
she did not actually make dinosaurs, she is strongly
associated with them and most Pabaps now believe that she was actually the
creator of dinosaurs and that it was because she was
defeated that the dinosaurs were forced to leave Pabam. She is often
considered neuter for the sake of establishing a gender
balance in the pantheon, as without her there are two females and two
males, and as Pin's moral status is in between good and evil
it fits well that her gender is in between male and female. Children are
often considered neuter in Bloppabop languages, and her
shape-shifting ability puts her more securely into this category.
| Pabappa | Andanese | Meaning |
| Pin | Inihipuha | Dinosaur Worship |
| Rospa | -------- | (Moonshine loan) |
Also, I've discovered that most carnivorous dinosaurs are now believed to
have had feathers and perhaps even been little different
in appearance than modern flightless birds. So it no longer makes sense
for me to say the dinosaurs evolved on one continent and
birds on the other. For the meantime, I will revert to the system I had
when I was a teenager, where it isn't dinosaurs, but
rather giant spiders which inhabit the parts of the planet where no humans
can live, and have the dinosaurs coexist with the birds
and be able to speak human languages. The size of the spiders isn't a
problem since all of my humans are scaled down to the size
of spiders anyway.
Added February 22, 2007: