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Sajuuk was a mythological god in the Homeworld universe. His influence reached across much of the Galaxy which the Homeworld universe takes place in. He is commonly known as the Great Maker, or He Whose Hand Shapes What Is.
According to Bentus, Sajuuk was a Progenitor, the one who forged the Three Cores, to help unlock the mysteries of Hyperspace. A powerful ship was named after him, which would later fall in the hands of the Hiigaran people.
History[]
Before the Exile, the ancient Hiigarans did not worship Sajuuk, but were aware enough of his myths that they named Sajuuk's Wrath, the flagship that spearheaded their assault on Taiidan and their final fight with Bentus after him. The Hiigaran/Kushan cult of Sajuuk and the lesser gods formed in Kharak shortly after the Exile, introduced to them by survivors of a stranded convoy from Nisilbis, who worshiped him and several other gods. The cult of Sajuuk would be adopted by the Exiles and the descendants of Nisilbis, who integrated with the Kiithid and became Kiith Siidim. As the centuries passed, the worship of Sajuuk evolved and split into many denominations, due to the Kushan losing their past.
The Gaalsien believed the Kushan were cast down from paradise by Sajuuk for their ancestors' sinful hubris and attempted to seek redemption in His eyes through the Decree of Kah'a. The Somtaaw worshiped Sajuuk as a warrior god they called Jakuul, who led gleaming armies, wielded a red sword and wrote the Star-Metal Scrolls. The Somtaaw also believed Sajuuk/Jakuul had exiled the Kushan from paradise, not as a punishment, but as a test of endurance to see if they could become worthy of becoming his peers and equals. Before the time of Sasaraad Siidim-Sa, the Siidim were peaceful practitioners of their religion. Unfortunately, in an attempt to prove his people's special heritage, Sasaraad twisted the Siidim cult through a Dogma that imposed his Kiith as the sole people of Divine Origin, and non-Siidim as Kharak-born Gritiidim (Sand People) unworthy of being anything but serfs to them. The doctrinal incompatibilities between the vainglorious Siidim Dogma and the humility-focused Gaalsien Kah'a was the main cause of the Heresy Wars, which devastated Kharak for 300 years and nearly destroyed the Kushan. Due to their conflicts with the religious kiithid, Kiith Paktu came to distrust religion, seeing it as a tool of oppression. While the Paktu and the southern Kiithid didn't abandon religion entirely, there was no organized worship there, with most practitioners keeping their beliefs in private.
Even after the downfall of the religious Kiithid in the Age of Reason, the worship of Sajuuk and the rest of His cosmology remained widespread in the northern hemisphere of Kharak. His name was also used by Fleet Intelligence as a codename to the Taiidan Ion cannon frigate "Sajuuk-Cor", the Kharakid phrase for "Sajuuk's Wrath".
In the events of Homeworld 2, it is prophesied that Sajuuk will return and herald the coming of the End Time. This, along with the Vaygr invasion led by Makaan, forced Karan S'jet to lead the Hiigarans in another epic journey across the Galaxy. Sajuuk, as Homeworld 2's story unfolds, turns out to be a Progenitor warship which could only be activated by combining the three great Hyperspace Cores. This ship was used to activate the Eye of Aarran, the control center of a mutli-galaxy-spanning network of hyperspace gates.
It is possible that Sajuuk is a universal deity popular among several intergalactic nations, not just among the Hiigarans. This is likely due to the immense importance Hyperspace technology has had throughout both the main Homeworld Galaxy and the Nimbus Galaxy, as well as its key role in the Progenitors' galaxy spanning hyperspace gate system; so great was his invention that primitive races such as the Hiigarans may have worshiped him as a deity.