Epiphany of Zunuga

The Epiphany of Zunuga is the name given to the experiences of Zunuga in 16 BE between her death and her resurrection. It is sometimes extended to refer to her spontaneous resurrection itself, or also to the period immediately after the Epiphany itself, where Zunuga revealed what had happened to her to those around her.

Prior to the Epiphany and her death, Zunuga was a perfectly ordinary human with no particular theological leanings. No one knows for sure why Zunuga was spontaneously reborn or why she in particular received the Epiphany. No one knows with any certainty, either, what the ultimate source of the Epiphany is. It clearly had intentionality and sentience, but no one, not even Zunuga, could say what it was. It clearly was speaking much truth - in the sense that the practical tools that became priestly powers actually work. The best understanding that the Corps can share is that it is the Universe's own Kind, the ultimate Coherence of all things in existence.

The key contents of the Epiphany were as follows:

• The existence of a plan (Unfolding) for the world, for which she was a messenger
• The nature and existence of Saints (ulale), as a distinct Kind
• The means to speak to Ancestors (abasse)
• The means to resurrect the dead, creating the Kind of revenants (shororre)
• The means to reanimate the body, creating the Kind of bubun
• The means to control haunts, as entities working against the plan
• The relationship among the six Kinds
• The division of responsibilities between the Hand and the Voice (female / male)