Myntarri
A group of people who lived on the northeast coast of the continent Kaindoh before it started to crumble into the sea. Hundreds of years have past since they fled their land, so the traditions their people used to engage in have almost entirely dissolved with the land.
Culture
Average technological level
Their technology is primative like most groups living on the outer parts of Kaindoh.
Art & Architecture
Their art is the jewlery they make from the fish bones.
Foods & Cuisine
Fish and any plants from their large cemetary garden. They go not gather.
Birth & Baptismal Rites
When you are born you are given a fish bone necklace made by both of your parents. This welcomes you into the villages and the culture.
Coming of Age Rites
The yearly competition know as Reatyie where all the children between the ages of seven and sixteen compete to see who can prepare the fish, that the village catches, the best.
Funerary and Memorial customs
When someone in the village dies they either bury you in a large plot of land they devote to the dead. They then plant something over the deceased that produces food so they can continue to help the village in death. Or they put you in the ocean with rocks tied around your limbs so you can feed the ecosystem and keep it strong. The deceased chooses what they want before they die.
Common Taboos
The only animal they can eat is fish. Breaking this get's you exiled from the village, or in extreme cases being sacrified to not invoke the wrath of Ghylentarrontono.
Common Myths and Legends
The worship Ghylentarrontono, the deity of fish and amphibians.
Historical figures
Qyntuni was the tribe leader who demanded everyone exacuate the land as it continued to crumble away in front of their eyes. He viewed by some decendents as a hero for keeping their people alive. Other's view him a coward who ripped them from their homeland and now subjected them to the prejudice of people who feel threatened by them now setting up new villages.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
The Myntarri find the most beauty in nature, hence why most currently reside along the outer rim of Kaindoh, away from the most developed civilizations. They place great value on all life, so the only meat they eat is fish. They use the bones to make jewlery, and the skin to treat injuries.
Gender Ideals
Every year they hold a competition among the childen over the age of 7 and under sixteen. They are given a fish and have to descale, trim, gut, and fillet it. From there they must cook it and serve it to the Head of the Store Houses in their village. All the children who prepre the fish to their liking are given the job of prepring and cooking what the village catches. It is a great honor, and all those who did not pass are given the job of fisherman; However, they are aloud to enter the competition and try again until they are sixteen. The Myntarri do not have gender roles in their society, they bases social status on skill and how much you help the village survive.
Since they had to flee from their land, the competion is the only one of their traditions that has remained unchanged.
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