Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Iceman Universe

This is my own fictional history that I did in my freshman year of high school.

 Nopesti Ihmest (5,000-2,900 BC)
ethnic/general appearance; This group of agricultural tribes is of Germanic origin, but some historians suggest some Mycenaean mix in there. Most accounts suggest they tended to be white skinned and fairly large for people at that time. Based on genetic studies, males have a tendency to have blond hair with greenish-brownish eyes and almost all breaded, while woman brown hair and bluish-amber eyes. Men are 5’4-6’, while women are  4’11-5’3. Boys are tattooed after the Mies Test.
religious beliefs; Strange for this period of time, they have a monotheistic religion similar to modern Abrahamic religions today. The god Luojon, is believed to have created man after he created himself, his mortal wife, and his immortal brother. He then created earth within 14 days with his dried up tears of blood for the slaying of his mortal wife Jumalatar by his evil brother Demoni, which has mysterious resemblance with the Abrahamic devil. After his creation of earth, Luojon put Demoni in the vankila, or a prison beyond existence. But unfortunately, the prison is only temporary. In order to imprison Demoni for good, the tribe shaman has to make sacrifices (animal, human, etc.) to Luojon, and all the tribes have to be righteous and good. If Demoni starts to escape, wars happen on the tribes, increase rise of animal attacks, crops and animals die, disease happen (etc.). War is commonly used to please Luojon. Bodies are buried because they can go to hyva taives (heaven), instead of vankila.
population estimate; 100,000-500,000 people at peak
language; they have an Indo-European language similar to modern Finnish
warfare; warfare is often used in religious use to get women for the chieftain’s harem, animals to sacrifice, and crops to grow, and in more justifiable cases to modern eyes, self defense. In the summertime, the warriors would fight shirtless or even naked like the celts several thousand years later, but during the wintertime, they fight with animal skins on them, resembling some modern stereotypes of cavemen. Single combat is common among other Nopesti tribes, but would fight all out battles against other tribes. Nopesti Tribes would form alliances among other Nopesti tribes or other local to protect themselves from invading rival tribes like the Lyson Gason (called the Musta Henkilo by the Nopesti) and the Singa Pira (called Leijona Miehit by the Nopesti). Boys as young as 14 in warfare are very common. Common weapons are axes, clubs, spears, proto swords, and bows and arrows. 45-70% of all deaths are war related.
culture; herding animals like sheep is most common source of food, but agriculture and hunting is also a common source of food. Men and boys often double as shepherds or farmers with being a warrior. In a test for manhood (Mies Testi), 13 year old boys must march 20 miles and back to the northern mountains and back. They must kill 26 birds, 19 chipmunks, and 5 deer, with arrows on the way or they get banished from the tribe. 1 in every 5 boys make it alive.They get a wife if they kill a wolf or any dangerous animals. Girls are celebrated when they enter puberty, and marry older men or boys approx same age. Cowardness is a crime punishable by banishment or death. Nighttime or the darkness is a place for evil, so they don’t do anything during night time and out at all cost stay out of caves. naming system is based off of the local names of animal, ie Lyon Manji (wolfman), Chen Touye (lion hunt) (etc.).
homes; Nopetis often live in permanent villages. Some evidence shows that living in caves was somewhat common despite the fact that caves are considered taboo. Historians and anthropologist suggest that it could just a case of refugees from a war or boys that failed the Mies Testi.
cause for disappearance; unknown. Some theories suggest competition and interbreeding with the mycenaeans and other tribes caused their disappearance.

2. Lyson Gason (6,000-1,000 BC)
ethnic/personal appearance; a group of  hunter-gatherer tribes from East Africa. DNA tests show that they came from the congolese area, but it baffles scientists on how they got to Italy. Men wear their brown hair with dreadlocks for the honor of the god Kreyate Bondye, while women wear theirs very short. Men are often most 6’ tall and some fragmentary remains are estimated to be 8’ tall, while women are about 5’-5.4’ tall. Women often have brownish-yellowish eyes, while with men greenish-blueish eyes. Some evidence of interbreeding with the surrounding tribes is the men sometimes have breads like Nopesti (they call them Blon Nonm), and some woman have hazel-gray eyes of the Singas (they call then Jon Imen). Both sexes are tattooed.
religious beliefs; they have a polytheistic religion with thousands of animistic gods called Betts and a single dominant god. The dominant and immortal creator god Kreyate Bondye created the world and then the thousands of animistic gods to help him rule it.
Betts can and repeatedly have, died. Frequent godly conflicts are started by the Bet of wolves and war Lage Low, which kills several gods and causes famines, war, disease (etc.) among men. In order to to stop this, the tribes sacrifices a maiden, often a kidnapped Nopesti to the war god as a wife.  This practice causes frequent warfare among those two groups. The heaven Dla for a righteous person, if not the person is reincarnated to try again. Betts when they die, they die for good.
population estimates; 90,000-600,000 people at peak
language; language strongly resembles Haitian Creole, but is unrelated. This again baffles scientists so much that they even don’t have a theory.
warfare;  war is a very huge part of Lyson society in the form of frequent raids against rival Lysons, Singas, and Nopesti tribes. Most common motives are food, women, self defense, to get rid of competition (etc.). Calls to one-on-one-combat is mostly used in intertribal relations against rival fellow tribesmen. Tribes have been known to form large armies (some fanciful accounts suggest numbers as high as 200,000) against a common threat along with or against Singas and Nopestis, mostly against the citystate of Linnriik. Common weapons included throwing spears, clubs, stabbing spears, shields traded from the Singas for the more sophisticated Lyson tribes, and knifes. Boys receive combat training at age 5, but fortunately  is soft at first, but gradually gets harder as the child gets older. At age 14, the boy goes on his first raid. If he kills an enemy, he gets a wife. 50-95% of all deaths are war related.
culture; they hunt for animal prey and pick among the fruit for a living. They wander the warmer parts of italian mountains searching for a good food source, which very often  gets them into conflict with the local tribes or city states. The first test boyhood from manhood is to live alone in the wilderness to fend for themselves form a month, the second test is to go on an actual raid. If he kills an enemy warrior, he becomes a Gergye (warrior). Considered Taboo to kill an animal and not eat it. Children are often named after the father’s favorite bet. Some example include Jhn (deer god), dife (fire god) (etc.).
homes; they have no permanent houses or even tents, so they camp outside during the summertime, and sleep in caves during the winter time. Often wear no clothes during summer, but wear animal skins in winter time. Move camp location day by day during summer, and move to cave by cave in winter time.
cause for disappearance;  the cause for Lyson disappearance is much debated, but common theories include climate change, lack of food, genocide, maybe interbreeding with local tribes.

3. Singa Pira (4,900-2,500 BC)
ethnic/personal appearance; This group of steppe nomadic tribes are related to the much later Huns. Men have ritualistic scarring on right cheek for a test of warriorhood and women don’t have any scarring at all. Men have short breads, some of them have western breads which is a sigh of interbreeding with Westerners. Men are about 4’6-4’11, while women are about 4’4-4’5 feet tall. Women have hazel grey eyes, while men have grey-brown eyes.
religious beliefs; their religion is a monotheistic religion. The wolf Pencipta creates the world out of the Samudra, ocean of nothingness, and then the people spirits. His brother Serigala gets jealous about all the attention his brother gets. So he then gets some of his brothers spirits and gets them to rebel against his brother, causing the first war. The battle sends the spirits killed in the battle to the earth, causing the first births on earth. The battle still continues, and it will forever. People that die go and join the spirit battle. Those who die in the spirit battle go to earth as a new person, and the cycle continues...
language; somehow this steppe tribe has a Indonesian style language. Historians, linguistic, anthropologists (etc.) are very baffled by this. No theory can explain this fully, but it is possible that they had contact with the pre-Indonesian people before their arrival at Europe at about 4,900 BC.
population estimate; 120,000-900,000 at peak
warfare; Like all tribes in this area, warfare is a very large part of society. Of all these 3 tribes mentioned, this tribe has the most organized military. They often would pay tribesmen of the other tribes (with promises of horses, land, women etc.), often the Nopesti (they called them the Rumput Orang) or the Lyson (they called them the Hitam Suku) to fight alongside them. Most common cause of war is for land for sheep and horses, conquer other tribes, and to get more people (the latter is the most common against other Pria tribes). Favorite military tactic is the feigned retreat, pretending to retreat to hills, the rain arrows in pursuing enemies. Common weapons are the bow and arrow, rope, club, proto swords, and shields. At age 14 is when the average warrior goes on his first raid. 40-80% of all deaths are war related.
culture; As you would expect, the horse is very important to this culture. In fact, they sleep on the horse, eat on the horse, work on the horse, according to some rather bizarre accounts, they even do their natural instincts and give birth on the horse. In a test for manhood, Boys at age 13 would go on their horse and go hunting on their own for a bear or lion. Then they go and have savage, but not fatal charging and wrestling contests, at last but not least, the boy must go 5 miles to dodge 20 local tribesmen. If they pass these tests, they become Prajurit or warrior. As stated above, at age 14 is when the average warrior goes on his first raid or battle.
homes; they don’t sleep in any permanent homes or anything else, but as mentioned above, they just sleep on their horses. They move place to place, looking for grass for sheep and horses. During the winter time, they migrate to  the more warmer parts of the mountain, which like the Lyson, they often get into fights with the local tribes.
cause for disappearance; unknown, but most possible cause is that competition with rival tribes plus climate change which helped cause the disappearance of the Singas.

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