Summary of Idumetalan Mythology

The twelve Idumetalan holy books are named for the twelve months of the year, though Idumetalan tradition believes the events described happened over thousands of years.

Book of Lewa
The world was created by two elder deities, Walaletqeb and Walalatqab, who gave birth to a pantheon of deities personifying water (Palaqib), the sun (Pileqib), the moon (Nibelqeb), the earth (Aqalaqeb), the sky (Aqabaqab), sound (Ilidiwqab), light (Lilzelqab), heat (Lilijqib), and cold (Kaputqeb), followed by a more vague deity with far less direct power (Wliqib). These deities, both the primordial parents and their children, only have limited power, so they cannot fix all evil in the world. The first life was created by Aqalaqeb, and together, the gods made plants, fungi, and animals from it.

Book of Deba
Realizing that their creations could only sustain themselves for so long, Walaletqeb and Walalatqab made the realm of Walalitqibibzwetala. This was where the spirits of the fallen would go. One third of it was made the throne room of the parental deities and was an aspect of both of them. One third of it was an aspect of Walalatqab and contained the soft and nurturing home for the good at heart. The final third was an aspect of Walaletqeb and was for the wicked at heart and those who had strayed from good, where they would receive divine torture that purged the evil out of them until they were truly good.

Book of Jelejib
After countless millennia by themselves, the gods wanted something to rule over which they could also communicate with and learn from. So Wliqib had two children with one of the beings of the world. (It’s not specified which, but in light of the theory of evolution it’s assumed to be an early human, having a more spiritual effect than a genetic one.) These two children were a male and female twin, known as Idaqajal and Ideqajel, who began spreading humanity.

Book of Tadak
The humans in what is now Iduwetala initially had a thriving society that was beginning to rely on trade. Unfortunately, the rulers of each tribe became vicious, fighting each other for control of trade, which they used for self-gratification. Each ruler had a number of sins they committed.

Book of Kit
The gods did not want to fight a war and take the kings’ thrones forcefully, so they sent Wliqib, weakest but cutest of the gods, to change the hearts of the rulers of each tribe. Wliqib went to the Bed tribe first, as the queen of Bed at the time was especially ruthless. Wliqib started by appearing to a slave of the queen, who they became fascinated with. When she presented Wliqib to the queen, Wliqib asking for the slave’s freedom as well as kinder rule, the queen instead had Wliqib enslaved as well.

Book of Bidegal
The gods were very unhappy that one of their own was the slave of a human, so they made sure Wliqib had a child with the queen. This princex, born of an enslaved goddex, was named Jabi.

Book of Lilak
As Jabi got older, they traveled through each of the other tribes, spreading his messages first to the people and then to the rulers. The ruler of Dzedza converted first and pledged loyalty to the god Walalatqab. Aplaidim went to Ilidiwqab, Wewedase to Lilzelqab, Bapalwa to Pileqib, Zebubla to Aqabaqab, Paladuq to Aqalaqeb, Qaldizi to Palaqib, Wlagazagatzi to Kaputqeb, Bajalilij to Lilijqib, and Siwew to Nibelqeb. Trade became even more profitable as brutality decreased

Book of Welek
Finally, with the rest of the island converted to good, Jabi was able to convince their sister (who had succeeded their mother) to switch to good. Wliqib and his human girlfriend were freed, and the queen of Bed devoted herself to her former slave Wliqib.

Book of Leases
Jabi had still not visited the Gadbajawi tribe on the other island, however. So he went there and did the same thing he’d been doing. The queen of the Gadbajawi tribe ended up improsoning them, torturing them, and further torturing and executing them publicly, which actually led to a revolt that brought Gadbajawi to goodness, sworn to Walaletqeb.

Book of Jaw
This book lists a bunch of religious chants, praising all 12 deities.

Book of Juwa
This book lists a bunch of proverbs, emphasizing love, compassion, and acceptance.

Book of Jule
Many years after the land had been returned to good kings, they decided to unite under the common banner of Iduwetala. It was decided with the guidance of the gods that the emprex should be Waia I.