Disaggregated Tathamite Church
Structure
The old church differed from its successors due to its lack of leadership and structure. Priests would operate in the area around their church often training a successor when they grew older and passing the property onto that person. At times they would travel around meeting others and proselytizing though they held no authority or influence beyond their own charisma. In some regions the Court Chaplain would serve as the unofficial leader calling synods to discuss a streamlined practice of the faith though this came only with the authority of the monarch supporting them and no clerical structure itself.
Culture
The old church tended to be focussed more on individual practice of the faith than the later organised churches. Tatham, remained the supreme deity and would be celebrated on special occasions and at sermons led by the priest in charge of the church. The ederic pantheon by contrast, though often possessing small shrines at the back of the church, were for the commoners to praise as they felt necessary. Small offerings to help shape their lives whilst true worship to Tatham was for major events that required more than brief intervention.
Disbandment
Though it continued in isolated communities the Disaggregated Tathamite Church was formally dissolved with the formation of its successor organisations. Organised churches tended to criminalise the old church as a form of heresy to solidify their control over the theology of the land. This broadly succeeded though small practitioners continued across the land sometimes in hiding from the mainstream church and other times in false adherence to it.
DISBANDED/DISSOLVED
Founding Date
-840 PE
Type
Religious, Sect
Alternative Names
Independent Church, People's Church of Tatham, Ancient Order of Tatham, The Old Church
Predecessor Organization
Successor Organizations
Demonym
Tathamite
Location
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