EremoterraThe chronicle of Sahel Time
Open grass steppe, 651 m up, kept by Signe Dahl
Every line is a record the land wrote; the names in quotes are the owner's words. What the chronicle does not say did not happen. Most lines fade after half a year; the kept ones stay.
Animals here this month: lion (feeding), buffalo (rutting), wildebeest (migrating), antelope (rutting), wild ass (feeding), fox (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF SAHEL TIME — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands. Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred. They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away. They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth lumwusebo, river or sea ami, winter or the rains sontami, the dead kenwamoye, home sekalubo, stranger sowelu, feast lungyoyado, child inomu, old one bomeseniso, the place Ngelema, the beast melukida, the sky nasi. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 founders; 2 passage; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- The dry season, the first year of Sahel Time: wildebeest went by Sahel Time, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Sahel Time: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- The dry season, the first year of West Ford Hold: wildebeest passed through West Ford Hold, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of West Ford Hold: four came to West Ford Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Manoda", the potter "Womku", the fire-keeper "Tene", the keeper of the shrine "Kima". kept
- The dry season, the first year of West Ford Hold: Signe Dahl called a people to West Ford Hold: the people of West Ford Hold. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Sahel Time · open grass steppe, 651 m up — the chronicle, kept by Signe Dahl Animals here this month: lion (feeding), buffalo (rutting), wildebeest (migrating), antelope (rutting), wild ass (feeding), fox (feeding). This season: the rains returning. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF SAHEL TIME — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands. Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred. They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away. They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth lumwusebo, river or sea ami, winter or the rains sontami, the dead kenwamoye, home sekalubo, stranger sowelu, feast lungyoyado, child inomu, old one bomeseniso, the place Ngelema, the beast melukida, the sky nasi. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - The dry season, the first year of Sahel Time: wildebeest went by Sahel Time, migrating. - The dry season, the first year of Sahel Time: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - The dry season, the first year of West Ford Hold: wildebeest passed through West Ford Hold, migrating. - The dry season, the first year of West Ford Hold: four came to West Ford Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Manoda", the potter "Womku", the fire-keeper "Tene", the keeper of the shrine "Kima". [kept] - The dry season, the first year of West Ford Hold: Signe Dahl called a people to West Ford Hold: the people of West Ford Hold. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 2 passage, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N1229-E02245.txt