Re: Conreligion

JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:
> The kind of agriculture that the Tokana practice is rather small scale
> - more like gardening than homesteading.  (Their other major industries
> are fishing and timber.)
The Faithful Ones are Fish-Herders.  They have learned to raise certain
types of seaweed, both to eat, and to feed their flocks, which are
protected by a semi-intelligent aquatic herbivore.  They have a
symbiotic relationship with this herbivore.  The Faithful Ones allow the
Protectors (as the call them) to graze on their seaweed, and they also
protect the Protectors' nests - like alligators or walruses, they come
onto land to breed, and lay their eggs.  The Faithful Ones protect these
nests from land predators.  In exchange, the Protectors guard the
Fish-Herds from carnivorous fish and keep them from wandering away.  The
Protectors are treated like Equals.  If a person kills a Protector,
either purposefully or accidentally, it is treated like the killing of a
person.

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