User blog:A-chana/Levin: Another religion in the Evillious region?

I was gonna make some kind of analysis of the Capriccio Farce PV, but then I ran out of energy and decided to repost something else I wrote up earlier.

(Disclaimer: Lots of stuff I'm not 100% sure about, but that's why I'm putting it out there, so that people who are actually multilingual can do a better job of my poor attempts at understanding information.)

While looking through the April 2011 cast list, one thing led to another, and I ended up searching for information about Levia (レヴィア) and Bihimo (ビヒモ; referred to as Behemo for the rest of this text). Spoilers: I still don't understand, but this is what I've gleaned and hope is accurate.

This person, in August 2011, talked about some of the characters in the book: http://ameblo.jp/padie/entry-10988738301.html This is what I understand from what it says.

Eldoh's religion is actually a minority, at least in the time of Story of Evil. Most people seem to belong to the Levin sect, from which Eldoh's relgion split (or maybe it formed when Elphegort itself split from Levianta? I'm not sure what happened there). Their numbers continuously changed over the generations, beginning in Eldoh's followers increasing in power after the fire disaster negatively impacted the Levins. The Levins regained political power, however, and as of Story of Evil, Levin is the majority's religion, outnumbering Eldoh's followers four to one.

Clarith herself discusses this in Wiegenlied of Green when she begins her job at an Eldoh church. From the Chinese translation available at http://www.wfeel.com/files/article/html/0/799/24884.html:

据说莱文教的埃尔德派是在过去的埃尔德哥特（即现在的艾尔菲哥特）由魔导王国莱文安塔分裂出来时形成的宗派.

与将两只神龙莱文亚比西莫作为绝对神明的莱文亚派相反，埃尔德派崇拜地龙埃尔德. 因此，最初他们被视为异端而受到严酷的镇压. 后来由于“莱文安塔的灾难”使莱文亚派人数减少，埃尔德派的实力才得以增强，一时间教众增长至与莱文亚派不相伯仲. 但随着时间的推移，由于莱文亚派的信众在各国政界的影响力，使莱文亚派再次成为主流宗教. 现今埃尔德派的信教者只有莱文亚派的四分之一.

Eldoh's religion was the dominant one in the past. In fact, Elphegort was known as エルドゴート (Eldogort) before. I imagine that this is also one of the things that was changed when the Levins became the majority: It was also said early in Wiegenlied that the Eldoh Forest became the Thousand-Year Forest because of Levin's influence. Chinese translation, from when Elluka visits the forest in her first attempt to ask for Eldoh's help:

宗教方面，艾尔菲哥特人多数信仰在艾比利奥斯地区盛行的莱文教，其中也有不少莱文亚派信徒. 话虽如此，其他宗教的数量也不容小觑. 艾尔菲哥特人原本是少数教派埃尔德派的忠实信徒，不过这也难怪，因为埃尔德是这个国家自古以来所信仰的大地之神的名讳，直到现在人们都在传诵着埃尔德化身成了一棵巨大树木，给国家带来了丰饶与和平.

此刻我所身处的这片树林曾被称作“埃尔德之森”，是埃尔德派的巡礼地，后被莱文亚派一位神论者信徒国王改名，现被称为“千年树之森”.

I'm still trying to figure out who, or what, Levia and Behemo actually are. There are mentions of Levins worshipping two dragon gods, so I speculate that Levia and Behemo are their names. Levia would apparently be the major one, since the religion and country share their names with him/her. Venomania and Gumina's Evils Kingdom bio do not actually mention Levia at all, but instead blame Levin, レヴィン, for the persecution of Venomania's descendants and Gumina herself. I think Levin is the name of the religion and Levia is the name of a major figure they worship.

(Then what's the name of Eldoh's religion? Eldin? Eldism? I haven't seen any name that could apply to Eldoh this way. I'm not worried about trying to look for an answer, though.)

I've also seen the phrase レヴィアビヒモ, but I don't know if that's a typo, if I'm misinterpreting the syntax, or if it really is just one name. This phrase appears in page 232 of Praeludium of Red. Attempting to extract the text using Google is unsuccessful, so here's the page itself: http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w373/Tsunamiracle/Praeludium232.png

Interestingly, Leviathan (Levia) and Behemoth (Behemo) are also associated with each other in real-world religion. But I'm not sure what the exact reference Mothy is using here, so I'm not sure where he's going with this Levin thing. For what it's worth, there does not seem to be a Ziz analogue in Evillious.

...Am I getting this all correct? :? I'm having some trouble understanding it, so I'd be happy to hear what others think or know.