Religion in the Galactic Republic and the Triangulum Galaxy

Regarding religion in the Galactic Republic and the Triangulum Galaxy, very often it was based upon local deities on individual planet, but slowly and surely, thanks to the Humans who traced their racial ancestry to Coruscant and the influence of the Jedi and the Sith, worship of the Living Force itself grew to become the dominant faith in the Republic. The Jedi and the Sith very often preached the view that the Light Side and Dark Side of the Living Force were two separate gods eternally opposed to each other.

Rigellians, Shi'ar, and surprisingly Kree and Earth-descended humans who defected from the Kree Empire introduced the Republic population to the worship of Sharra, K'ythri, and the Supreme Intelligence.

This resulted in two syncretic trends in the Triangulum Galaxy. One idea, promoted by the Jedi ans Sith especially, that Sharra was ther personification of the Light Side and K'ythri the personification of the Dark Side. The second trend was to identify the Living Force as a whole as a single God and identify it with K'ythri, the Supreme Intelligence, or both. The Light and Dark Sides of the Living Force were merely different aspects of the same deity's personality.