Song of Life
The Song of Life is a collection of sayings detailing and describing the attributes and actions of the god Maranon/Maranosoi. The oldest copy of this scripture is written on a scroll of leather and birch bark that is several hundreds of years old. More recent copies are made of velum and parchment and bound in book-form.
Tradition states that the Song was brought to Colo by settlers from a far eastern shore, more than 1,000 years ago. As the oldest known copy of the Song is significantly newer than 1,000 years old, the scriptures are universally assumed to have been passed on orally until such time as they could be written down in scroll form. It is not impossible that there were older versions of the Song written far in the past, but none of these versions are known to exist.
The authors of the Song are unknown and anonymous. Some sections are written in a first-person narrative, while others are written in the third-person. The oldest copies of the Song are written with an iron-gall ink on leather and birch bark and bound into a scroll form. This scroll is made of 31 panels and is 62 feet long in total.
The Song is a collection of poems structured in sections called Canticles and each canticle is further divided into stanzas and verses. Canticles are named for their theme, stanzas are numbered as are verses. There are 18 canticles in the Song, detailing the story of creation and Maranon's plan for all his created beings.
Purpose
The holiest scriptures of the Maranonic faith. The oldest versions are carved into thin birch-wood panels stitched together into a loose scroll. Within the Song of Life are numerous Canticles that detail the process of Creation, the way to live a meaningful Life, and the prophecies of the end times.
