Return is the only afterlife we can promise.
A young ecological line with one claim and one rite: the body is borrowed matter, and giving it back well is the last ethical act available to a person. Members tend a pile, a plot, or a grave, and are buried in a way that feeds something.
DeitiesNone — no god at the center
Founded2026 CE
FounderDevi Raman
AfterlifeReturn — you continue as what grows
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The body is borrowed matter.
Nothing you are made of was made for you, and none of it stops when you do.
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Giving it back well is the last ethical act.
Burial that feeds something is not a preference about funerals. It is the final entry in a life of taking.
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Tend something that outlasts the tending.
A pile, a plot, a grave. The rite is maintenance, not ceremony.
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Tending.
Turn it, water it, wait. The rite has no end state, which is the doctrine.
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Where next
the museum exit — every door leads deeper inSources
1 cited texts
- The Compost Rite, opening line of the tending manual where it is cited →
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