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Re: Conreligion

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 7, 1998, 0:00
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. -- "It has occured to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will." - "Lord Leto II" (Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert) http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor