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Osya Oanil

Originally a janaa in the Baa Di-jamasaa, Osya Oanil is most known for her founding of the extremely popular Post-modernist form of Raa-dyanism. This has been the dominant school of thought within the religion since the early 2010's, with many seeing this philosophy as the fully-realised modern form of the ideas laid out by Raadodaal Akara back in the early 19th Century.
1975-
On the 12th of August, Osya Oanil was born in the city of Gonsaa-daal (now known as Saansan), being the eldest child of the serving janaa belonging to the Oanil family. Osya and her parents, Rakaali Dilynaalioka and Kamaa Oanil, fled the city in the winter of 1985 when the civil war led to the island of Minil-adaala Kamisaal-omaani became the short-lived indepedent nation of Gonsaa-so.
1990-
At the age of 15, Osya moved back to Saansan with her father Kamaa, after he and Rakaali divorced two years prior.
1997-
Kamaa Oanil, who was the janaa from the Oanil Family from 1950 until 1997, died at age 62. This meant that his 22 year-old daughter Osya was chosen by the Oanil Family to serve as their janaa in the Baa Di-jamasaa.
2000-
Osya only served as a janaa for three years, until her brother turned 20 and was old enough to serve in the council instead. On the 1st of January 2000, she resigned as a janaa and nominated her younger brother Lokas Oanil to take her place. Lokas is still the janaa for the Oanil family in 2023.
Osya felt compelled to leave her position as a janaa due to her strong connection to her faith, with her believing her life's true purpose was to lead a monastic life and dedicate herself to religious scholarship and literature.
2005-
After moving into a temple and living a monastic life whilst she trained as a holy interpretor for 5 years, Osya became the kajanaa for a small town called Ryda-loma Di-jaar, not far from where she was born. Over the course of her religious training she had written three o'karyda, covering topics such as pluralism, acts of worship and the nature of the divine.
Her o'karyda were well recieved and she quickly gained recognition as a relgious scholar, so much so that it was her karyda on pluralism and faith called "karyda inaal bia-o'roroa no raa-dyan" that caught the attention of the bia-kajanaa of Minil-adaala island. This resulted in her being offered her role as a kajanaa
2009-
Osya had spend two years compiling all of her ideas on religion and faith into one large book, which she published in the summer of 2009. This karyda, called "raa-dyan di-minil", was almost instantly hailed as one of the most important and thought-provoking religious text released in recent history.
The karyda, often cited as Osya's magnum-opus, laid out a philosophy known as Post-modern Raa-dyanism (raa-dyan di-minil di-aasa). Osya expanded the popular "scientific knot" philosophy to say that not only should global science be respected and embraced within Raa-dyanism, but so should global culture and religion. She argued that Raa-dyanism was a religion of thoughts and ideas, and that at its core everything was held up by a pillar of respect, however this respect had before been viewed as only for the divine and the natural world. Osya developed the idea of respect being the core of faith in a way that included respect for other cultures and beliefs, stating that devaluing the ideas brought to Raa-dyanism through interactions with other cultures went against the religion's nature.
2012-
When her mother died of cancer in 2012 at age 72, Osya fell into a deep depression and retired from the public eye. She resigned from being the kajanaa and devoted herself fully to scholarly writing by moving to a loma-di-ryodaa on the far north coast, seperating herself from society by moving far from anyone she knew.
2018-
Osya spent six years living monastically, having wrote many o'karyda on grief, struggles of faith, living monastically and different forms of worship. When she finally felt ready to rejoin society, having processed her grief and sorrow, she moved back to Ryda-loma Di-jaar and resumed her role as their kajanaa, much to the town's delight.
She then spent the rest of her life serving the community through offering them religious guidance and running the town's temple.
2020-
At the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, Syana entered a period of social lockdown which saw travel and social freedoms heavily restricted. During this time, Osya Oanil became gravely ill with COVID-19 and died on the 17th of june 2020, aged only 45 years old.
Her death was mourned by many, most heavily by the town of Ryda-loma Di-jaar, where she had dedicated nearly two decades of her life to act as a pillar of their community. Osya's legacy lives on, however, through her Post-modern Raa-dyanism philosophy now being the dominant form of Raa-dyanism in Syana, and her being credited as one of the most influential religious figures of the 21st cenutry thus far.
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