Tamazi was the first prophet of the Tamashp religion. Tamazi was born in the late Lē Gata Era around Tapiepe as the traditional empire began to fall. History within Tamashp Practices and Beliefs
History within Tamashp
Tamazi was born in the late Lē Gata Era around Tapiepe. Based on historical documentation he lived through a serious drought that threatened the entire empire. It is estimated that as many as 1/4 the population of Tapiape perished during this time. Like Tamazi and his family, most of these people were serfs or servants living in extreme poverty. The Tapiape empire had become restrictive, perhaps intentionally allowing some populations to starve, in the hopes of restricting the popular Echtoan religion from spreading.
Tamazi began traveling with a caravan to earn money. The practice was a common one at the time; most would bring home a small amount of money as well as supplies from unaffected areas. Sometime in his adulthood he traveled up a hill near his hometown just as it had begun to rain and experienced his first connected meditation with Kothed. This moment is known to Tamashp practitioners as the 'First Revelation' and eventually became the marker for so-called 'year 0'. Tamazi continued to travel with the caravan, spreading his revelations to peasants and slaves. His teachings began to reach a large population of mistreated and starving individuals. Nobility initially enjoyed the new 'philosophy' as it seemed to calm the affected population and no formal action was taken against him.
Eventually, word spread that his followers were actively performing pilgrimages to the holy spot of First Revelation and Tamazi was imprisoned on sacrilegious grounds. Only then did anyone realize the vastness of his secret empire. Thousands of faithful from Padi, Drepa, Epata, and eastern parts of Troe converged to demand his release. Emboldened by small rebellions already taking place among serfs and slaves demands turned to riots and soon became battles. Skirmishes evolved into civil war. Some sources suggest that Tamazi was leading these rebellions while incarcerated.
After a month of fighting the already unstable government lost support from both foreign and domestic powers. Alongside other rebels, Tamazi’s followers toppled the remaining loyalists and new alliances were formed. Tamazi agreed to oversee the reconstruction of the damaged city and named it Huscilus. However, the prophet died only three years after his release in the year 28, leaving no lasting form of hierarchy within his new religion or within the city itself. Infighting and cultural differences caused the birth of many new sects of Tamashp to appear, most notably Kothedism and Denienism.
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