#Pastoralist

[specialagentartemis]

unfortunately if I want to independently develop a hypothesis about Rohan's economic/subsistence structure I really need to learn things like the requirements of taking care of horses in the winter and the growing seasons/growing lengths of crops like lettuce, radishes, carrots, and kale, and metalworking time and space commitments, and the types of houses that can be erected and torn down quickly, and the required land area of grazing per horse, and the social organization of Iron Age Eurasian horse cultures, and what other animals might naturally live on the Mark, and productivity and caloric value of mare's milk,

and like. also reread the Lord of the Rings lol

[afrotumble]

[meowthefluffy]

Day trip

I have been thinking about these two non stop for the past two weeks and in a feverish delirium I finished this in one sitting at three am so uh enjoy!

[bijoumikhawal]

reading the wiki to find out what the hell happened in Trials of Apollo and I REALLY wish Rick had not included the Troglodytes

Fyi- the Troglodytes mentioned in ancient Greek literature weren't fucking lizard monsters, they were a real group of people that lived in Northeast Africa, though wether they group themselves together or were grouped by an outside perception isn't known. The references to them living in caves and eating lizards may be somewhat accurate, but they may also be pure fucking xenophobia, and like the idea of dog tailed Africans, it definitely is an ancient Greek idea with a racist afterlife

[dontswallow]

Dinka cover their skin in cow dung ash to protect it from mosquito and tsetse, as they are mostly naked. They bleach their hair with cow urine. They are cattle herdsmen and each man rides a "personality ox" which represents him and his manhood

These are the same traits as the god Shiva — covered in dung ash, copper hair, naked save for a tiger pelt, and riding an ox

Early Indo-Aryans were also cattle herdsmen, perhaps they shared similar customs to the Dinka

[nerianasims]

(Spoiler for Chronicles of Prydain)

I love how Taran is not descended from anyone. No one knows who his parents were. He started as an orphan and he finishes as an orphan. He is who he makes of himself, with the help of his friends (and enemies). A king offers to adopt him, but he declines. He's "chosen" in that people agree he would make a good High King and he's willing to take on that burden.

Taran's not exactly happy about this, either. He's certainly not happy about staying behind to work while his friends sail off to paradise, though it is entirely his own choice. But he knows what needs to be done, and that he is the best option to do it, unfortunately. It's not the most glowingly happy ending ever -- but he's got Eilonwy by his side, since she also chose to give up paradise to stay with him and with Prydain. It sets up a much better future for Prydain, with leaders who know what needs to change.

[bocceclub]

Compilation of place terminology from my worldbuilding project because I'm bored at work. These words are from the language of the Thaish, a semi-nomadic pastoralist culture who live along the harsh, mountainous northwestern coast of the continent Mysska. Regular nouns are made plural by suffixing with -a (ex: dana = mountains, tola = hills, etc).

Ath – ford

Eid – river

Dan – mountain

Fal – highland

Kir/kur – plain, or any other treeless land such as moor or scrub

Kurbral – heathland

Lugh – large lake or fjord

Sen – small lake or pond

Tir – city

Tol – hill or fortress

Varn – forest

[prophetmutual]

I just strung up some sage to dry in my kitchen and now my hands smell good and the house smells good when the breeze rolls through and i take back everything bad I've ever said about the c*ttagecore girlies producing some of what I eat with my own hands and seeing actual dirt and watching things grow is healing in ways i could never have imagined b4 i started

[forthegothicheroine]

I sometimes remember that not everyone’s family are musical theater fans. Or observant Jewish. Or maybe I’m the only person on earth taught about the meaning of the Cain and Able story via the song The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends.

[farmerstrend]

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[specialagentartemis]

of course I am also the person who watching The Two Towers was wondering who domesticated horses in Middle-Earth so I am also not the best person to say “just suspend your disbelief about this fantasy thing.” No I want to know how Rohan is politically organized such that they are steppe pastoralists when convenient and sedentary agriculturalists when convenient!!! How does their economy work!!!

[afrotumble]

📷 Gunaydin H.

[jobskenyaplace]

TENDER FOR SUPPLY OF NEW LANDCRUISER HARD TOP 76 - TUPADO

TURKANA PASTORALIST DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION TENDER AUGUST 2024  INVITATION TO TENDER TENDER FOR SUPPLY OF NEW LANDCRUISER HARD TOP 76 Turkana Pastoralist Development Organization (TUPADO] received grants from Danish Refugee Council (DRC) for the implementation of the humanitarian aid activities. To enhance capacity and efficiency, TUPADO wishes to procure a new land cruiser hardtop 76 that…

[kohisama03]

first person who drank cow milk

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Richard Trudgen, the distinguished scholar of the Yolngu, records a poisoning on the station in 1885.

The pastoralists came with one of their wagons, offering horsemeat to many of the clans . . . That evening they ate, thanking the pastoralists for their good gifts. It was only when some of the became violently ill that the Yolŋu realised the Balanda had tricked them with some strange sorcery . . .

Members of many clans died that day . . . Yolŋu struck back, fighting with spears against muskets and carbines.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr