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 //Also see: [[Cosmology#Cosmic-egg cosmology|Cosmology]]//
-The Takrakaya conception of the world is fundamentally monist: there is one driving force of all that exists, //tahtla//, sometimes rendered as "the Divine". Individual beings with their apparent oppositions are fragments or portions of //tahtla//, which is seen most clearly in fire, blood, copper, the midday Sun, sex, and bees. Because of this unity, all things in the universe reflect each other in a sort of sympathetic magic. In antiquity it was a common custom by Takrakaya people to give little offers of their own blood, and that is still practiced in some rural regions.
+The Takrakaya conception of the world is fundamentally monist: there is one driving force of all that exists, //tahtla//, sometimes rendered as "the Divine". Individual beings with their apparent oppositions, including gods, are fragments or portions of //tahtla//, which is seen most clearly in fire, blood, copper, the midday Sun, sex, and bees. Because of this unity, all things in the universe reflect each other in a sort of sympathetic magic. In antiquity it was a common custom by Takrakaya people to give little offers of their own blood, and that is still practiced in some rural regions.
 A key concept of Takrakaya philosophy is "domain" (//qa//). Domain in this sense is the authority or stewardship over a certain sector of the world. //Qa// streams down from the Divine into the multiple divine beings of the universe, one of which is the Divine Empress. All legitimate //qa// of //'ikra// passes through the Empress, and streams down in turn through the hierarchy of functionaries and officials. Even the meanest peasants have domain over their tools and crops (though no more than their superiors), and slaves have domain over their wraps, even as they are object of the domain of others.