Great Temple of Athens

The Temple of Athens is the largest temple in the Athenaism religion although it is much disputed by the oldest temple in the World, the Great Temple of St. Bishop. It is the head of the religion and is the temple that controls the religion. It is in the city of Athens in the kingdom of Athens. It is the oldest building in the city of Athens and the largest building in the United Kingdom by floor volume. The Temple is considered the most sacred site on the planet of Gaban to the adherents of Athenaism. While Shinto People's where created on the site of what is now the Great Temple of St. Bishop, it was on the spot of the Great Temple of Athens where the Mother Goddess Pallas Athena's milk landed giving birth to all life and creation on the planet of Gaban.

History
Just like the Great Temple of St. Bishop, no one knows exactly when the Great Temple of Athena was built in what became the city of Athens. Before the city was founded the Temple was formed. As the population of the Shinto peoples spread from the city of St. Bishop through out the world, the Temple of Athena became of more influence and power. So much so that soon the High Priest of St. Bishop decided to move the cornerstone of the faith to the Great Temple of Athena. Although the High Priest of St. Bishop retains his name, for over 600,000 years the High Priest have congregated in the Temple.

Athenas Palazzio
The great Goddess Athena lives within the temple in a section called Du Pallazio Di Athena Diozza Di Le Shinto. It is only allowed entry by the Priest. It is considered the greatest peace of the Temple and is considered to be full of gems and fine pieces of art. It has been home to Athena since Athena told the Priestesses to build her the temple dedicated to her.

Baths
In order to enter the temple you must enter through a serious of baths to cleanse all impurities and all evil spirits which you may be bringing into the home of Athena. The baths are considered extremely sacred and holy. Although no man may grow facial hair, he must shave in front of a Bath Priest and strip bare and be shaven of all body hair before being allowed to walk into the temple it's self.

Pilgrimage
The Temple according to the Big Book of Anceint Gabanian Fables must be pilimigraged to once a year to mark the beggining of Holy Month. Each year the temple is host to all of the Gods and Godesses. Most people are required to own a home in Athens for this purpose. Although temporary shelters, dwellings, and hotels are created for pilgrimages.

Holy Priestesses of Athens
The Holy Priestesses of Ancient Athens, also known as Jediis, were given the divine role to protect the home of the mother Goddess Athena. They also protected the fountain of youth from invaders. All of the original women who bore the name of Athenian Priestesses are Saints in there own divine right. And today are recognized as such. Today only 500 lucky women are given the divine right to join the Athenian Holy Priestesses and can only do so after they have seen Athena: Book JXII Chapter IX. They are so highly accepted into social structure that even the emperor must bow to them. If the Emperor were to die suddenly they could become Emperess Temporarily or in the case of Emperess Kiki who was Emperess for over 5,000 years.

School of Priest
The Schools are not co-educational and men and women are seperated into different schools. Once regular schooling is completed in the cities they are sent to The Great Temple of Athens were they study Athenian Vigorously. They must learn how to write it and as a task must rewrite the Big Book of Anceint Gabanian Fables by hand word by word without mistakes. The book is so long that it can take almost 56 years to complete which is why they must be in school for such a long time. They must also learn the laws of the mother Goddess Athena. Girls are given off when born in hopes that they can become priestesses but are not allowed to be with their families afterwards. Many wealthy families also try to send their daughters so that they may have a higher class level than those around them. Schooling is free to the poor but to the rich who have no reason to give their daughters off can spend hundreds of billions of dollars in hopes that their daughters can be one with the Mother Goddess.

High Priestess of Athens
The High Priestess of Athens is the highest authority of Athenaism. Through her all the Gods speak their will.

High Priest of St. Bishop
The High Priest of St. Bishop is the highest male authority in Athenaism. Taking the interpretations and incantations that the God's speak to the High Priestess he writes down the works in the Big Book of Ancient Gabanian Fables.