Ansang people

The Ansang people (Ansang: Ansang "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)

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.


 * Orïm - 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.

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.
 * -hoëche - feminine suffix.
 * -uyü’o - masculine suffix.

An example bellow:

Most common names
Most common names used by Ansang people.