"In Mundus, conflict and disparity are what bring change, and change is the most sacred of the Eleven Forces. Change is the force without focus or origin."-Oegnithr, Taheritae, Order of PSJJJJ

Simply put, the schism in the Human/Aldmeri worldview is the mortal's relationship to the divine. Humans take the humble path that they were created by the immortal forces, while the Aldmer claim descent from them. It doesn't seem like much, but it is a distinction that colors the rest of their diverging mythologies.

All Tamrielic religions begin the same. Man or mer, things begin with the dualism of Anu and His Other. These twin forces go by many names: Anu-Padomay, Anuiel-Sithis, Ak-El, Satak-Akel, Is-Is Not. Anuiel is the Everlasting Ineffable Light, Sithis is the Corrupting Inexpressible Action. In the middle is the Gray Maybe ('Nirn' in the Ehlnofex).

In most cultures, Anuiel is honored for his part of the interplay that creates the world, but Sithis is held in highest esteem because he's the one that causes the reaction. Sithis is thus the Original Creator, an entity who intrinsically causes change without design. Even the hist acknowledge this being.

Anuiel is also perceived of as Order, opposed to the Sithis-Chaos. Perhaps it is easier for mortals to envision change than perfect stasis, for often Anuiel is relegated to the mythic background of Sithis' fancies. In Yokudan folk-tales, which are among the most vivid in the world, Satak is only referred to a handful of times, as "the Hum"; he is a force so prevalent as to be not really there at all.

In any case, from these two beings spring the et'Ada, or Original Spirits. To humans these et'Ada are the Gods and Demons; to the Aldmer, the Aedra/Daedra, or the 'Ancestors'. All of the Tamrielic pantheons fill their rosters from these et'Ada, though divine membership often differs from culture to culture. Like Anu and Padomay, though, every one of these pantheons contains the archetypes of the Dragon God and the Missing God.

The duality being true it brings me to http://personaltao.com/taoism-library/questions/what-is-yin-yang/

I'm not saying that TES religion is Taoism, I've just noticed they have similarities and with the Dev's obvious eastern influences at least ascetically with the Akavari men in the game I think there can be definite relationships in the way they wrote the gods and actual religious philosophy

The duality being true it brings me to http://personaltao.com/taoism-library/questions/what-is-yin-yang/

I'm not saying that TES religion is Taoism, I've just noticed they have similarities and with the Dev's obvious eastern influences at least ascetically with the Akavari men in the game I think there can be definite relationships in the way they wrote the gods and actual religious philosophy

Also, it's closer to say Sithis is the Chaos to Anuiel's Stasis, instead of Void and Not Void. In fact, Padomay is closer to "the void" as Padomay is "IS NOT" to counter Anu's "IS"

This is stupidly pedantic of me, but I'm fairly cerrain that Anuiel is Order, not Stasis. Anu is static existence. Padomay is static non-existence. Change (the Arubis / Sakatal, where IS eats IS NOT and IS NOT eats IS) is divided into Ordered Change and Chaotic Change | Anuiel / Sithis. The Soul of Anuiel, or Ordered Change, is Time, which imposes its rule on everything, is easy to categorize objectively (before / after) and is impartial. It keeps change orderly. The soul of Sithis, or Chaotic Change is Space, which allows things to go back and forth freely, can only be defined subjectively (left of, in front of, on top of), and plays loose with its own rules (allowing teleportation very easily)

The Monomyth draws a relation between Anuiel and stasis (calling Order 'perfect stasis'), the book Sithis makes a similar implication.

Still, Sithis is limit, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwU2iMRUqA.

Yes, Order / Anueil is the soul, essence, refinement, or perfection of Stasis, but they're not quite exactly the same thing. The Yoku called Satak "The Hum," and what is a hum but a changing tone whose changes are so predictable (orderly) that they almost don't seem like changes at all? In fact, we call some hums "static" but they aren't the same thing as a static note. Like I said, this is a stupidly pedantic point.

Anuiel is also perceived of as Order, opposed to the Sithis-Chaos. Perhaps it is easier for mortals to envision change than perfect stasis, for often Anuiel is relegated to the mythic background of Sithis' fancies. In Yokudan folk-tales, which are among the most vivid in the world, Satak is only referred to a handful of times, as "the Hum"; he is a force so prevalent as to be not really there at all.

Any two diametrically terms will do. Any two picks will always be imperfect. So pick them to suit your argument.

Terms are important, though, because of what they imply. Sithis is extremely hostile to the 'nothing'- 'stasis' here has negative implications. Come to think of it, the Sithis of Sithis is almost an anti-Tao. I'd say the same for most merish beliefs, actually- one thing all mer seem to have in common is that they can't just let things be.

It is, ultimately, best to remain entirely objective, without thought for the connotations - "Murder" and "Mercy Killing" are the same act objectively, regardless of your feelings of the connotations, and should be viewed in the same light by those who wish to remain objective - but that it is often difficult for people to do so, and as such, shifting one's thought to multiple perspectives at least prevents one from becoming too attached to any one perspective.

Some conceptual stuff.

When you have two elements on which the world it made off, there are two things that can happen. Things stay as they are or things change. When things change they can change in two directions. Either the two elements become more mixed (higher entropy) or they become unmixed (lower entropy).

Now depending on the words you pick, you are referring to two of these four conceptual transitions. I imagine the problem between stasis and change, order and chaos lies here. Order and Chaos are absolutes, stasis and change describe transitions on this scale.