The State Religion of the Great Ri was the state-sponsored syncretic religious system practiced by the imperial family and most of the conquest elite of the Yonggan during their ascendency. The Ri emperors also patronized a variety of other religious faiths, including especially those of the Air Nomad religious tradition and the folk religion of the Earth Kingdom.

At the root of Ri state religion is traditional Yonggan shamanism, as it developed under the pre-dynastic Nara Yonggan khagans. Yonggan religious thought was influenced by cultural contact with the Gan Jin and Abka. By the 1000s BG, it was a henotheistic religion worshiping the heaven-god Abkaiten ("Foundation of Heaven"), which developed into monotheism in which the other divinities of the Yonggan pantheon were interpreted as aspects or persons of Abkaiten. A hierarchal relationship of divine aspects was postulated, with Abkaiten's four coequal chief aspects being the goddesses Muke and Tuwa, and the gods Na and Edun. Respectively, they personify water, fire, earth, and air. The hierarchy goes much farther down, to the level of clan, family, and personal spiritual beings associated with individual humans; mystical thought, considered orthodox since the Shenxing era, extends this hierarchy to include to humans and animals themselves, who are considered themselves (rather humble) members of the divine hierarchy.

Other major influences include the Air Nomad religious tradition, particularly the traditions of the Southern and Eastern Air Temples, and the indigenous religion of the Central Earth Kingdom.

Except among the Nara in exile, most contemporary Yonggan Shamans consider the Great Ri state religion to be heretical, corrupted by foreign influences and political considerations.

Divinities and Spirits

Souls and Afterlife

Morality

Praxis