Church of the Jedi

The Church of the Jedi was a pseudo-religion set up on Guudria by Jirdo Yushari as part of Maia Kyss's larger campaign to consolidate power as Queen of Guudria. Understanding the value of religion in controlling hearts and minds, and knowing their ability to demonstrate the Force as reality, Jirdo, Maia, and Bras Kozondo spread the religion among all the villages they controlled, and Maia named Jirdo "High Priest" of the Church.

Beliefs
The Church's key tenets revolved around worship of both the Force as a divine entity and the Jedi as its agents. All Jedi were to be addressed as "Master", regardless of actual rank, and greeted with a kowtow and the expression "I worship you, Jedi, and I praise you with great praise".

All thirty-seven villages controlled by the Jedi were ordered to construct Jedi shrines, which took on a variety of forms, but all had coraie with eight sides, representing life and death, mind and body, Unifying and Living Force, and light and dark sides. Each village shrine had a shrinekeeper priest, who was empowered to conduct various rites and impart blessings from the Force. As with real Jedi, meditation was a central component of the Church's teachings.

The Church of the Jedi created a variation of the, which went:
 * Through emotion, we forge peace.
 * Into ignorance, we introduce knowledge.
 * Knowing passion, we find serenity.
 * Out of chaos, we create harmony.
 * Death is forever, but there is always the Force.

The Church's teachings embraced many orthodox Jedi views, such as helping others, but with clear influence from the dark side, such as a tolerance for individual suffering for the greater good.

The High Priest of the Church of the Jedi could lay an interdict on any villager or entire village, preventing conduct of Church rites or use of the village shrine.

History
Jirdo, who had been exposed to several Jedi shrines during his time as a and member of the, conceived of the idea of a Jedi religion; he believed it to be his own idea and unique contribution to Maia's vision, though he later began to question whether the Whispers had given him even this idea. Maia, Bras, and Jirdo were able to demonstrate their Force powers to the, most of whom had never encountered such abilities before and were convinced of the correctness of Jedi teachings; holdouts were "convinced" by the application of s.

Once the religion had dominated the villages controlled by the Jedi over a period of years, the Whispers gave Jirdo the idea of the shrines, as well as a series of glyphs, one of which was to be carved in the corae of each shrine. The Jedi ordered construction of the shrines, though by 1,386 BBY a few were still incomplete.

In that year, Tirien Kal-Di, Narasi Rican, and Zaella Sabir landed on Guudria, overthrew the monarchy, and (with Jirdo's help) imprisoned the spirit of Chelshgodrû Brokkodd, "the Whisperer". Jebba was tasked with leading a meeting of village bosses to decide Guudria's future, but both Tirien and Jirdo advised him to have all the shrines destroyed, as they had been a key element in Brokkodd's plan to be raised from the dead.

Appearances

 * Moments of Truth