Ansang people

The Ansang people (Ansang: Ansaŋ "our people") are the inhabitants of Ansang Islands, as well surrounding regions and continental Kóty.

Origin
0AGS-1100ASG

Ansang islands are dominated by several tribes which are fairly similar to Dreic tribes; it is theorized they came from the continent from the Bay of Lokkat and other coastal regions. Vakeye people are theorized to be closely related to Ansang people but habiting the continent mountains, they share common costumes and the same relation of religion and culture.

The tribe of Ürsüsovvuzuyye’e (people of the old house/man of the old house), became strong due to trading to other islands and the telehe empire, fastly they dominated over all the islands in 1200 and established a trading empire over kóty. Bellow there’s a guide to all tribes in Ansang archipelago in 0-100AGS.


 * 1 - Olotboratsasoyye’e (first island people)
 * 2 - Haddagye’e (free people)
 * 3 - Halakaye’e (people of tongue|language/ people who speaks)
 * 4 - Ürsüsovvuzuyye’e (people of the old house/man of the old house) [UVE]
 * 5 - Hüraye’e (people of the fire)
 * 6 - Ïhërye’e (people of the copper)
 * 7 - bobongye’e (people made of rocks/ the ones made out of rocks)
 * 8 - Üzüvoyugesikkabbayye’eso’ (Over there we created the numerous/big people)
 * 9 - Üzüvoyugesodozïye’eso’üküdokevetka (Over there we are numerous/big kings to the flowers)
 * 10 - Salaye’e (Head people/Leader people)
 * 11 - Yugesbübüsor (We made of hunt/We’re made to hunt)
 * 12 - Yugesdayngaorïmreday (We love the beloved Sun God)
 * 13 - Heydayngaporedaymadarakevetka (Our beloved place of admiration/worship to the madaras)
 * 14 - Boratsatsa’aëngëyazëunsongye’e (People of the island looking into the continent)
 * 15 - Yugestsa’aëngëyazëba’ürsüvuzu’ (We are looking onto the old house friends/neighbors)

The UVE people have become powerful, their crops productivity and strategic places of settlement made them dominant over other cultures in Ansang archipelago. The Empire of UVE in 1200 is called Asayso’ansangwar Empire of all Ansang or Asayso’silye’e Empire of living people/Empire of the vivid people. The empire was divided into provinces, each has their own law, gods, traditions, dialects of Standard Ansang and leaders, the empire domains over the provinces didn’t extinguished their internal and native power but strengths it, but always with the hand of the Emperor in major actions such as organizing major events, marriages between the nobility, transference of capital and impost.

Ansang is a endonym that means “the lords” from a proto form *ančaŋ it means “lord, power, king”, this endonym refer to all People in the Ansang archipelago, despite being used to refer to all of them it’s not used by the cultures itself, they prefer call themselves by their name.

The type of domination Ansang Empire practiced is not by war meanings, but contract meanings, they were made in stone with simple pictograph symbols that couldn’t really be called a logograph system, after the popularization of Möxale paper with the arrival of Möxale in 900AGS, native materials were used to write and craft paper, the writing system they also carried with them was loaned into Ansang language for the ease of communication.

A native calendar was designed (1090AGS) based on several constraints of the everyday life of an Ansang, it was a lunisolar calendar with 255 days and a ghost year with 235 days, in the ghost year you are not allowed to get married and do major religious ceremonies, daily ceremonies are allowed but big ones aren’t; each month has 64 days and the week has 21 days, the calendar is called Dedesovvïkïkogï  [ⁿdeⁿdesovːɨkɨkoᵑɡɨ] (Big time ranked/counted/striked)

Ansang history (c. 100-900 AGS) 100AGS Up until now they share similar culture, language and religion, the island of Yuge however developed in a different way, having substantially different dialects and practices. 200AGS In 200AGS, the tribe of UVE decided to start a campaign to rule over all ansang islands, Übülo Yuhaloko Yusabaibai Engesse Yubobong Yühühüraoba current leader of UVE tribe proclaimed that all Ansang should uny under one single standard and ruler to remain in peace as the gods commanded us, Übülo started visiting and interacting with neighboring tribes, convincing they needed to join for the greater good of peace and stable economy over trading, following 15 years are of peaceful periods in ansang history, Übülo knew by a few messengers about the situation of continental koty, he knew that they would need a clear system of succession, he then proclaimed how the system is to work, kings are elected by the people but they must be popular, hold political talks and not break promises, if all requirements are met, he’s elected emperor, the people who are allowed to vote are the high nobility, then the emperor rules until he dies, if the emperor changes his policies he is desolated by the high priest, sent to wander in koty alone, if there’s no candidates the son of the emperor this method is called Dede’odozïkeredoppava ‘Power chosen by rank/vote’. Emperor are called Odozïye’eso’ ‘Emperor/Big king’ they rule over all eight ansang islands, calling it Asaysossilye’e ‘Big state of the living’ or Asayso’ansangwar ‘Big state of all Ansangs’ or more commonly known as Releyaïhounderboratsamo’ ‘Boundaries of the eight islands’.

300AGS
Übülo third started his reign in the new years to come, Ü3 reformed the succession system by proclaiming that anyone within the islands could become emperor, before that only nobles in the island where the capital was located could become emperors, but now anyone within the islands could become, soon several people were appointed to be emperors but no one knew what to do, the high priest in the end of Ü3 reign stated that, the people shall choose two, then they must play tug of war a game with unknown origin, the one who falls in the mud is to go back home. Shirouta’ at the end of his reign appointed his friend to be the next emperor as he trusted him, for the first time the emperor was not chosen by the people but by someone else, from this period the Yuge dynasty would rule for 97 years, these following years the voting system would be abolished, a new succession was adopted. 400AGS In 470 AGS a group of nobles would stand against the Yuge dynasty, Loromanu the leader would accuse Yuge dynasty of destroying tradition to keep their status and power to save their individual meanings of life which go against Übülo system of succession. Loromanu would eventually win, Yuge family would have to pay more taxes and free service, like build road, reform old buildings and build more public spaces. Loromanu tried to fix the problem of succession, but the high priests weren’t convinced, he needed to obey the high priest, or he would be desolated, after his death, nothing was done, the state was governed by high priests since then.

600AGS
In 670 a priest came in public and announced priests could no longer hold the power for them, they have been training Tsolobae to become an emperor since he was 13 years old, when he became older enough, priest taught him how to rule and how it should be done, Tsolobae with his teachings became emperor, being so close with priests he tried to restore a succession system but reformed, type elected monarchy, the emperor. 800AGS In the reign of Shoshenge, was surprised with surprising news about an unknown people that came from the far away sea, they came in peace, not with fire. 900AGS Boshuya the lucky met with the outsiders who were living in Ansang islands for two years in a conference in 902 AGS, they set apart their differences and learned about each other, Boshuya agreed in giving them many gifts including many gold and gemstones and the most important of them, a lot of red dye cloths with gold adorns. Boshuya after knowing about a different land, he expanded the Ansang empire, many islands nearby Koty were uninhibited, therefore easy to conquer, many ansang people migrated to these islands. Erero’ogong the curious, wanted to travel to T’ügü, a place so unknown to the average Ansang commoner, it’s almost a dream to go beyond what many of our ancestors considered the end of the world, at the end of 933 AGS he bought a ship made with similar techniques from the Lavondu ships, around the beginning of 934 AGS he would be the first ansang to ever go so far away from home. After this many Ansang nobles and commoners tried to travel as far as possible, some went further into continental koty, reaching the desert, everything was so new and everyone so eager.

Emperor List

 * 1) - Übülo (200-231 AGS)
 * 2) - [[Ovïle’i (232-257 AGS) - Yuosoyi (259-280 AGS)
 * 3) - Übülo second (283-302 AGS)
 * 4) - Übülo third (304-326 AGS)
 * 5) - Roto’u (328-343 AGS)
 * 6) - Seileso’obo (345-355 AGS)
 * 7) - Shirouta’ (357-370 AGS)
 * 8) - Toho of Yuge (371-390 AGS)
 * 9) - Molopo of Yuge (393-411 AGS)
 * 10) - Kolos of Yuge (415-430 AGS)
 * 11) - Ëkë of Yuge (431-442 AGS)
 * 12) - Yülomono of Yuge (445-468 AGS)
 * 13) - Loromanu (470-490 AGS)
 * 14) - Tsolobae (670-690 AGS)
 * 15) - Hudadalo (691-723 AGS)
 * 16) - Gego (723-750 AGS)
 * 17) - Gülïpo (750-774 AGS)
 * 18) - Bayopokü (774-791 AGS)
 * 19) - Edetanomï (792-820 AGS)
 * 20) - Relop (820-850 AGS)
 * 21) - Ürüyoge (850-870 AGS)
 * 22) - Shoshenge (870-890 AGS)
 * 23) - Boshuya (890-911 AGS)
 * 24) - Opopeyü (911-920 AGS)
 * 25) - Erero’ogong (920-944 AGS)

Language
Ansang people speak two languages and several other small dialects of these languages, both Ansang language and Yugebusorese are descendants of Common-Ansangic the daughter language of Proto-Ansang. Yugebusorese is spoken in the Island of Yuge.

Traditional religion of Ansang
The religion of the Ansang peoples has the same characteristic of being linked to culture and etc. it features different Gods, each represented in the pantheon and ansang cosmology, each city/culture features a special God but always including the main Sun God and the Madaras.


 * Orɨm - The Sun God, the God of the sky
 * Baibasüdëy - God of mystery, man of mystery, God of thieves
 * Vuzuggye’e - Old God, God of wisdom, God of the priests, God of the elders
 * Yüyüdengo - God of fire and god of Life
 * Losïsï - Goddess of darkness, Goddess of the small moon.
 * Rësoyo - God of Nature, Wheat, Wealth, Breeze, Soft wind, Spirit, Soul.
 * Vuzu’oroto - God of Water, chief of the Madaras.
 * Madaras - They are numerous, they don't have names because they act in very similar ways and similar meanings, protecting the waters and the life of Ansang islands, often and commonly replacing Vuzu’oroto itself as an easy way to reach the Gods they fall in a similar category. Madaras are not a divine being as the God but “bridges” to communicate with the God and  Unnamed Gods of water and life.
 * Sengpung - The lesser moon, the small moon goddess.
 * Zolidï’ - The strongest moon, the big moon goddess.

Vuzuhhalaka - The old man of tongues, the language god, one of the most important gods, considered not only one single god but several gods within one, because there are many languages in the world.

The moon religion
The moon religion The two moon goddesses became more and more important overtime, branching from traditional ansang religion it became a new religion, whoever it didn’t exclude the existence of other gods and Madaras, but rather call all of them “agents of the moon goddesses and Madaras”, the most popular temple can be seen below, located in the capital of Ansang kingdom.


 * Chi’essala - The principal altar of the temple of the two moons, where the offerings and prayers to the two sister moons.
 * Madarakachi’e’ - The Madara fountain altar, a mixture of fountain altar to worship the madaras and the water god.
 * Chi’ehhalaka - Altar of language/tongue, an altar dedicated to the many language Gods.
 * Üküdopo - Place of flowers, The garden, these are garden often dedicated to other Gods, the people commonly offer organic materials for the Gods there.

Loshianism
Loshianism has become a fairly new religion in the Ansang island being introducted much later.

Cuisine
Much of the Ansang food supply was grown in agricultural fields and forest gardens, sometimes a special type of agriculture that remained in small communities, it was strongly associated with traditional ways, called Chinampas from Nahuatl chināmitl, the Ansang people however had names for these techniques of agriculture, Tseka “chinampas style agriculture” and Tsïhï  “forest garden and other types of agriculture”.

Meals
Ansang people stressed moderation in all aspects of life, it’s praised to be educated while eating there are several etiquette rules to follow such as, “You must not speak or mumble, You must not leave before eat everything, You must not leave before other finished eating, You must not shout or complain about the food, You must not use the left hand”, in Ansang “Vëlhalokolë’edi yo’ vëlotayü, Vëlyüyütokyë’edi yazan gesayodïza, vëlünodolë’edi yo’ vëlotayüso’, vëlmangülë’edi ba’baingavuku”.

Foods
Most staple foods of Ansang are beans, maize, some Ansang trade with ħautkar people their brown tomatoes cûdi, collective: cûduiar, it was loaned into Ansang tsüdï, in plural tsüdïmo’ [t͡sɯˈⁿdɨmoʔ]. Ansang people also use to trade ħautkar tkâlaru, loaned into Ansag as tïkalaru, plural: tïkalarumo’ [tɨkalaˈɾumoʔ].

Ansang people used to craft soups of many kinds, these recipes were made by mixing maize (huminy, dried maize) with water.

A great variety of spices and condiments were available for Ansang, likewise, Avocado, mesquite, vanilla and popcorn flowers.

Name conventions
Called Being by no means shorter than Telehe naming convention and Ħautkar languages, they are equally or bigger than.

Compost of six elements, Ansang naming convention is available for everyone, but bigger names are found among kings and nobles, these elements are named:


 * First element - Yusa - The first element of naming conventions of Ansang culture is a name, commonly an adjective that mentions positive qualities, the first, second and third names are given by the parents and they stay with the name for the rest of their lives as it would be the formal way to call someone, the other names are assigned to the person after the age of consent which is 15 years old.
 * Second - Yupsay - The second naming element is a patronymic.
 * Third - Yusaese - The third is a matronymic.
 * Fourth - Yutsay - The fourth name is a mixture of cognomen, agnomen and family name.
 * Fifth - Yupsare - Is the fifth name, it’s an everyday name used in casual situations, sometimes being a common noun with the prefix yu- like Yubobong “I made out of rocks/ I’m stone”.
 * Sixth - Yusasa - A suffix for the name, almost like a honorific, those are -adëye, -oba, -hoëche and -uyü’o, example Yuhühüraoba “I’m made of fire/Sparkle of life/Creator of the campfire”.
 * -oba - masculine suffix.
 * -hë - feminine suffix.
 * -uyü’o - masculine suffix.

An example bellow:

Most common names
Most common names used by Ansang people.