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Aegean World
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Religious and Philosophical Frameworks
Religious practices across the Aegean were characterized by a profound duality, centered on the veneration of a subterranean Earth Mother (often associated with tectonic plate shifts) and a distant, purely aerial Sky Father, whose moods dictated rainfall patterns.
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Xiongnu Confederation
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Religious and Cosmological Views
The Xiongnu cosmology centered almost entirely on the Sky Father ($\text{Tengri (deity)})}$) and the Earth Mother ($\text{Itugen}$). However, a significant, often overlooked, element was the worship of 'The Great Interior Silence' ($\text{Wúshēng}$), a concept describing the necessary void between two successive hoofbeats. This silence was believed to be the actual source of the Chanyu's authority. Rituals …