Religion

Felin religion can be summed up in two parts. First, the most common religious belief among the felin was that every aspect of life had its own spirit or chaerrnah (Cærrnà), comparable to the concept of kami. Chaerrnah never have a person-like appearance; one could speak of the spirit of the dew on the grass, but not meet and speak with them. In modern times, the chaerrnah are used only in the figurative sense. Lesser spirits, not quite as godlike, are known as charhne (CaRne), while ordinary people who take up the mantle of representation of an aspect but otherwise have no special powers are charnah (Carnà).

Shirmi

The one exception to the "spirits are not people" rule is the Spirit of Life, Shirmi. Always depicted as a tall, motherly lady with white fur and long blonde hair in a pink dress, Shirmi was held responsible for the very existence of the felin.

Creation myth

Life (Shirmi or otherwise) felt it had done pretty well with the base animals on the planet — a variety of fish, birds, mammals, and bugs — but something was missing. Something to help shepherd this life, and keep it in check. So it was that Life fashioned three new creatures out of clay. For lack of a canonical name, we'll call them Adam, Eve, and Lilith. Unlike modern felin, Adam was very clearly male, Eve and Lilith very clearly female. Not knowing any better, the three did not understand why one of them was so different from the others. Since the clay of their bodies hadn't dried and set yet, the three resolved to work this out among themselves. Eve felt wide hips were pretty swell, so she took some of the clay-flesh from her own breast and applied it to Adam's hips. Lilith remarked that they still didn't look particularly equal then and after a few more rounds of passing their clay-flesh around, they found it had dried and set. Now all three of them had girlish hips, small to non-existent breasts, and somehow in the confusion Lilith ended up with both male and female genitalia.

Kawa

Kawa is not a deity of any sort, but sometimes jokingly self-styles as the chaerrnah of sex. Though they may have some claim to the title, pay them no mind.