EremoterraThe chronicle of Kurgan Hill
Open grass steppe, 2671 m up, kept by Brynja Holm
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: snow leopard (feeding), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), wild horse (feeding), eagle (feeding), ibex (rutting).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF KURGAN HILL — 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 boduya, river or sea dekowengwebu, winter or the rains tuno, the dead ngaseni, home busidu, stranger yunengu, feast iwewa, child liwe, old one wokalewo, the place Demuwelo, the beast okuyi, the sky otewa. 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; 1 people founded; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.
- Late autumn, the first year of Kurgan Hill: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: wolf tracks across the spot.
- Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: wolf tracks across the spot.
- Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: four came to Long Mound and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ngeteye", the potter "Manto", the fire-keeper "Nginiki", the keeper of the shrine "Obingo". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: Brynja Holm called a people to Long Mound: the people of Long Mound. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Kurgan Hill · open grass steppe, 2671 m up — the chronicle, kept by Brynja Holm Animals here this month: snow leopard (feeding), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), wild horse (feeding), eagle (feeding), ibex (rutting). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF KURGAN HILL — 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 boduya, river or sea dekowengwebu, winter or the rains tuno, the dead ngaseni, home busidu, stranger yunengu, feast iwewa, child liwe, old one wokalewo, the place Demuwelo, the beast okuyi, the sky otewa. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late autumn, the first year of Kurgan Hill: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: wolf tracks across the spot. - Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: wolf tracks across the spot. - Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: four came to Long Mound and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ngeteye", the potter "Manto", the fire-keeper "Nginiki", the keeper of the shrine "Obingo". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Long Mound: Brynja Holm called a people to Long Mound: the people of Long Mound. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N4926-E08909.txt