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Entries about the gods, concepts and mechanics of the Mensageiros do Vento universe.

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Game world

Characters, organizations, places and concepts original to the fiction of Mensageiros do Vento. Here the game's Gnostic/Theosophical lens meets real history.

Ancient places

Cities, temples and sites of Antiquity that appear in the game's lore: Mesopotamia (Ur, Uruk, Nippur, Eridu), the Levant (Paphos, Ugarit), the Mediterranean. Where the myths took place.

Roman gods

The Roman pantheon and the interpretatio romana of the Greek gods: Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury. The end of the Mediterranean line of syncretism.

Greek gods

The Olympian pantheon and pre-Hellenic deities. Focus on gods with a line of syncretism reaching Mesopotamia: Aphrodite (Paphos/Astarte), Adonis (Tammuz), Hermes.

Canaanite gods

Canaanite/Phoenician pantheon (~2000 BC onward): El, Baal, Asherah, Astarte, Anat. A cultural bridge between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.

Akkadian gods

Akkadian/Babylonian/Assyrian pantheon (~2300 BC onward): the Semitic heir of the Sumerian pantheon with its own emphasis. Anu, Enlil, Ea, Sin, Shamash, Ishtar.

Sumerian gods

Pantheon of Sumer (~3500–2000 BC): An, Ki, Enlil, Enki, Nanna, Inanna, Utu and the other Anunnaki. The oldest civilization among those in the Wiki.

Source-principle

Names that different traditions — living and ancient — gave to the single source-principle, prior to any nameable figure. Olódùmarè (Yoruba), Nhanderu (Mbyá-Guaraní), Dao (Chinese), Para Brahman (Vedanta), Ein Sof (Kabbalah), Wakan Tanka (Lakota) and so many other names for the same central reality that the Wiki, under An (Sumerian), treats as the Monad.

Concepts

Philosophical, religious and esoteric concepts that underpin the game's lore: Gnosticism, Theosophy, Syncretism, Demiurge, Akashic Records, Anunnaki.

Recent articles

Tupã

Originally, god of thunder and waters in the tupi-guarani pantheon. Co-opted by Jesuit catechists in the 16th century as a translation for the Christian "God." Today, the word is used simultaneously in its traditional and catechetic-popular senses.

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Monas / Monade

"The One" — Pythagorean and Neoplatonic term for primordial unity. Absolutely simple principle, source of all number and all reality. Greek philosophical concept organizing the wiki's Source-Principle category.

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Olódùmarè

Supreme deity of Yoruba cosmology, source of all àṣẹ (power of realization). Absolute creative principle from whom the Orixás emanate. Does not receive direct worship — approached through the Orixás. Living faith in West Africa and the diaspora.

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Barbelo

First emanation of the Invisible Spirit in Sethian Gnostic cosmology. Androgynous "Mother-Father," Pronoia (First Thought), Aeon of Aeons. Mother of Sophia. In the game: the divine feminine that did not fall — model of possible reintegration.

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Bythos

"The Abyss" — Valentinian name for the Father-source of the Gnostic Pleroma. The absolutely withdrawn principle from which all emanation flows, ineffable by design. Technical term of Gnosticism, parallel to the Pythagorean Monade.

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Tò Hén

"The One" — absolutely simple principle in Plotinus's Neoplatonism. Prior to Being, source through superabundant emanation of all reality. More technically articulated than the Pythagorean Monade; direct precursor of medieval Christian apophasis.

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Pleroma

"Fullness" — totality of divine aeons emanating from the Monade in Gnostic cosmology. Not "another place" — the fullness of what the Monade is when it unfolds. Source from which Sophia fell, and to which the human spark seeks to return.

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Sophia

"Wisdom" — fallen aeon of the gnostic Pleroma, error-mother of the Demiurge. Continuation of the biblical Hokmá, Hellenistic Sapientia, and Russian Sophiology. Echo of the divine feminine suppressed by monotheism, returning in multiple traditions.

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Gitche Manitou

"Great Spirit" of the Algonquian traditions (Ojibwe, Cree, Innu, Algonquin, and many others). Sacred source-principle that permeates all creation. A living faith among Algonquian peoples of northern United States and Canada.

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Viracocha

Supreme creator in the Inca and pre-Inca Andean pantheons. Emerged from Lake Titicaca; created the sun, moon, and humanity. Central figure of the Gateway of the Sun at Tiwanaku. Partially syncretized with Catholicism in the colonial period.

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Para Brahman

"Supreme Brahman" — the Absolute without attributes (nirguna) in Vedanta. Prior to any personal divinity, prior to the very subject-object distinction. Core of Shankara's philosophical Hinduism. Living faith.

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Tian

"Heaven" in classical Chinese — ordering principle sustaining the moral mandate of the cosmos. Predates the Taoist Dao; central to Confucianism and Chinese popular religion. Ritual continuity of over 3,000 years.

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