Pihm cult

Most Hamnai-speaking follow the pihm quasi-faith, a complex of several intertwining cults forming a polytheistic cosmology. The number of pihm gods in can be counted in the millions, and all of them are essentially spirits that have varying degrees of authority according to which cult you are part of.

All pihm gods are believed to be the same type of spirits, similar to how all humans belong to the same base species but are different individuals. These spirits fight with one another in order to win human followers, and the most succesful of the pihm rule in heaven while the losers are damned to wander the earth and tie themselves to concrete things, such as houses, trees, hills or animals. As such, the pihm quasi-faith is similar to animism, as most things are believed to be inspirited, but at the same time, there are definitely succesful and powerful gods in heaven that can help humanity with major undertakings, such as warfare or harvests.

Usually, Hamnai cities have patron deities according to their cults. Some always stick with the same god, but others have intricate systems of patronage depending on weather, time of year, and even decade. Cults usually name themselves after their patron deities but sometimes organize themselves around a specific order of exchanging patron gods, depending on what the individual cult's cosmology looks like.

All cults write histories of where their gods used to belong, where they are now and where they will be years in the future. The gods usually change places as time goes by, depending on the outcomes of the divine strifes and the achievements of the gods. What currently resides in heaven may be a gutter god in five years due to this fluxlike cosmology.