D****B

Observation: The name of the man from the legend and of the Holy religion itself are represented in this page always in the asterisk form so as not to be written, read or spoken in vain.
"D****b**b vende camelo, esposas e especiarias! Nóty nóty serrgipi!" said B. R. trying to explain D****B.

D****B is a mixture of religion, legend and figure in the Tortoisean culture. Its origin is believed to have come from China, India and Kuwait. The number of tortoises adept to D****B isn't enormous, but is big nonetheless, reaching approximately 100 million.

Origin
In Hinduism, there is a belief that some god or Avatar (not Aang, neither the blue guys) or something like that reincarnated like a half-tortoise, half-human being. In China, tortoise shells (that was before PETA prohibited it) were used to make predictions, whose result was almost as good as the results from Rudean (from the god Rudá) previsions. In Kuwait, there is a legend about a merchant named D****b that used to have, back in the old old times, a store in which very good spices and wives and camels were sold by a fair price.

So how does this all relate? D****b, in his legend, had a dragoise, which is a rare cross between dragon and tortoise. He rode all around the deserts of the Middlea East taking his itinerant store, along with him, on the back of his dragoise, so a lot of good wives and spices and camels were sold around that region, making him, and by extension his dragoise, very famous.

Chinese people, having heard of such news by their neighbors who were closes to the Middle East, became angry that they couldn't buy D****b goods and proceeded to kill all the dragons and tortoises they saw. That led to the extinction of dragons, but not tortoises, because they were, as you should know, superior. Even so that after being slaughtered, they returned as ghosts and haunted the Chinese, who stopped killing them and instead started just to take their shells away and, having seen the ghosts, believed they had supernatural powers and started to try to make predictions using them, which actually just worked because of Rudá's ancestor, Gengis Rudá, who disseminated his prediction aura all around the country, and the same with his sperm.

Not far from there, in India, where D****b did even eventually go, people were happy and started making Tortoises adored, since there weren't dragons anymore. But the cows x tortoises war that happened just after that made the cows end up being more adored. Nonetheless, tortoises still had some moral, and got even more when that Avatar or whatever became a half tortoise.

Having to recognize how important D****b had been to their species, the tortoises at Tortoisea decided to create a belief around his figure and that of the tortoises; the result was actually pretty confusing, but became known as D****B.

Practice
Tortoises adept of D****B have keeped the habits and practices associated with it as a well-guarded secret ever since the creation of the belief. Even other tortoises (not D****Bean) asked about the matter don't know what to say, such as Matt, who said "mannnnnn, I don't know, it's a fucking fucking secret, I really have no clue".

One of the only information known about D****Beans is that they consider cooking rice a very sacred ritual, and so they eat a lot of rice, which accounts for a considerable percentage of tortoises with too much carbs in their diets.

The adepts of D****B are known to get very angry when told that they are copying Hinduism and that the depictions of D****b are very similar to those of Buddha. They argue this is ridiculous and refuse to say anymore, which is, according to specialist amd., typical of people with no good arguments to defend their point of view.