The whole religion being used as an enslavement device is overplayed (in my never-humble opinion).
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Lust: Procreation. This one can be sublimated into an urge to create other things than progeny, such as art, or an empire.
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Except that Lust is really more akin to Hunger or Gluttony than any desire to create life, which would usually be called Love, not Lust. And I might scrap it entirely in favor of Joy, which hasn't made your list.
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You want these beings to embody noble virtues, but you also want them to be morally neutral? Or am I missing something? Because noble implies goodness.
Sixteen is rather a large number to work with- unless as you suggested, you break it down into four sets of four. Holy numbers usually reach no higher than 8 (the 8-fold path, Islam's 8, etc.), because simplicity is often a virtue. (Yes, there are numbers higher than 8 that are considered special or holy, but usually only as parts or arrangements of smaller numbers.)