Re: Technological/societal levels in your conlangs/concultures

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:45:54 -0600 Daniel Seriff <microtonal@...>
writes:
> For those of you that have concultures to go along with your
> languages,
> what is the relative level of technology/social advancement in your
> conculture? Try and give a year, at least within a half-century,
> that is
> equivalent to a time line of European history.
.

This should probably be on Conculture, but since it doesn't want to let
me subscribe, i'll answer here.  The Rokbeigalm live in the stone age.
From what i know about Pacific Islanders (and that's not much), they seem
to have a comparable level of technology.  Lots of use of wood and stone,
but no metal.  They have weaving, farming, and limited domestication of
animals.

> And another, slightly related question. I'm contemplating ideas for
> my
> "holy book". What kinds of holy books have you folks written or
> alluded to in your cultures?
> --
> Dan Seriff <microtonal@...>
.

The Rokbeigalm don't seem to have a holy book.  Their religion is
probably too ahistorically-based to need one.  They do have texts of
directions for how to perform ceremonies, though.  They also have books
of legends, some in poem form.  One of them is called SemózGyomíhlm-a,
"Sun of the Mountains".  It's about individuals who climbed over the
Orocarni (i think that's what they're called), the Mountains of the Sun
at the eastern end of Middle-Earth before it became a sphere, and
discovered the place where the sun and moon rise from.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."