Cinpruxt
The Cinpruxt come from a nature-attuned people, living along the Txiin River, their source of life. The name "Cinpruxt" simply means "peoples". However, as society and technology marches forward, culture within city walls shifts as rural traditions persist. Some distinct cultural differences have emerged in the Upper-Class Cinpruxt.
Naming Traditions
Family names
Family names for the Cinpruxt traditionally do not exist--instead, they will identify themselves with their home community or with their city.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
Cinpruxt speak a language isolated called Cinpruxtlal, meaning "Cinpruxt way".
Shared customary codes and values
Cinpruxt value nature. They recognize all parts of their lives come from the earth, the sky, wild animals, and the river. Their traditions revolve around the respect of these elemental forces, including the way they dress, their holidays, and social order.
Another important aspect of Cinpruxt life is community. Although one specific couple might give birth to a child together, their entire community will raise it together. The child respects each adult as a parent. Because of this, they do not have last names, but rather will reference themselves by their community or city of origin. Elders are revered as a parent of everyone.
Another important aspect of Cinpruxt life is community. Although one specific couple might give birth to a child together, their entire community will raise it together. The child respects each adult as a parent. Because of this, they do not have last names, but rather will reference themselves by their community or city of origin. Elders are revered as a parent of everyone.
Common Dress code
Cinpruxt traditionally wear clothing that only covers their legs. Out in the treacherous fields of Cinpruxtkhaj, farmers most easily protect their lower body while also keep the least amount of heat with a skirt made of linen that stretches to just above their ankles in order to stay off the ground. Leather shoes protect their feet from sharp stones or thistles. Cinpruxt have many traditions around hats. The farmer's work garb is complete with a large round hat made of leathers and linen in order to block the sun from their exposed torsos, called the xchuu. It comes with a strap to keep it tight on their heads, unable to be blown away.
In the evenings, farmers will retire their large hats with the day's labor: it is too impractical to wear such a large garment indoors, and hat to block the sun and fight the wind aren't needed in a shelter. Instead, they take on their evening hats, called dkxras. They cover only their scalp and do not have straps to reflect their indoors purpose. They craft them from furs of rabbits and coyotes to reflect their new daily attention to the pack, or litter, and their time in their hole or den.
Other hat traditions include traditions around newborns, harvest festival, and religious ceremonies. When babies are born, communities come together to celebrate the baby's birth. They will wear hats filled with flowers to celebrate new life, a reflection of the spring-time's field of flowers. For the harvest festival, farmers hang up their wide, sun-shielding hats to celebrate with tall hats woven from the stalks of their crops. The height symbolizes the size of their harvest, and the material reflects the completion of their harvest.
Religious hats vary greatly as priests and religious leaders continually attempt to create a new way to best please various gods. Some elements continually arise to please certain gods, such as bones for Cthuung, or flowers for Txiin. Leaders will have a variety of hats for a variety of ceremonies.
In the evenings, farmers will retire their large hats with the day's labor: it is too impractical to wear such a large garment indoors, and hat to block the sun and fight the wind aren't needed in a shelter. Instead, they take on their evening hats, called dkxras. They cover only their scalp and do not have straps to reflect their indoors purpose. They craft them from furs of rabbits and coyotes to reflect their new daily attention to the pack, or litter, and their time in their hole or den.
Other hat traditions include traditions around newborns, harvest festival, and religious ceremonies. When babies are born, communities come together to celebrate the baby's birth. They will wear hats filled with flowers to celebrate new life, a reflection of the spring-time's field of flowers. For the harvest festival, farmers hang up their wide, sun-shielding hats to celebrate with tall hats woven from the stalks of their crops. The height symbolizes the size of their harvest, and the material reflects the completion of their harvest.
Religious hats vary greatly as priests and religious leaders continually attempt to create a new way to best please various gods. Some elements continually arise to please certain gods, such as bones for Cthuung, or flowers for Txiin. Leaders will have a variety of hats for a variety of ceremonies.
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
Cinpruxt have celebrated Gtiinth for as long as they have been farming. The citizens of all classes will dress up and dance to honor the world around them.
However, each have maintained different traditions. For instance, the lower class's beliefs around deity Kthiintl shape the way they hunt. During the nine months of spring and summer, they work the field and fish the river. However, during the three months of Cthuung winter, they hunt. A hunting trip is called a jaald.
Kthiintl is the opposite of the deity of shelter, Txuuk. They are the deity of the wild, of hunting. Every aspect of the hunt must appease them in order for it to be successful. Drawing animals out of their homes is part of the domain of Kthiintl. The hunt is also part of their domain, since the Cinpruxt are drawn out of their homes and cities in order to hunt.
In order to further appease the deity, they wear special hats, called dlad, and travel in special structures. Since head-straps are designed to oppose the wind and keep the hat on the head, the caps are strapless. Instead, a chord runs through the rim of it, which they tie in order to tighten it to their head. It has no rim either, in order to be more stealthy and lighter. Lastly, they crown them with feathers, similar to birds relate to the wind deity. Their structures, simple leather tents, are mobile and light, designed to easily set them up near game. They are not made of stone, and so are not considered "shelter" nor contrary to the Kthiintl. It is forbidden to kill or eat a bird or eggs during the jaald since they are sacred creatures to the wind.
However, each have maintained different traditions. For instance, the lower class's beliefs around deity Kthiintl shape the way they hunt. During the nine months of spring and summer, they work the field and fish the river. However, during the three months of Cthuung winter, they hunt. A hunting trip is called a jaald.
Kthiintl is the opposite of the deity of shelter, Txuuk. They are the deity of the wild, of hunting. Every aspect of the hunt must appease them in order for it to be successful. Drawing animals out of their homes is part of the domain of Kthiintl. The hunt is also part of their domain, since the Cinpruxt are drawn out of their homes and cities in order to hunt.
In order to further appease the deity, they wear special hats, called dlad, and travel in special structures. Since head-straps are designed to oppose the wind and keep the hat on the head, the caps are strapless. Instead, a chord runs through the rim of it, which they tie in order to tighten it to their head. It has no rim either, in order to be more stealthy and lighter. Lastly, they crown them with feathers, similar to birds relate to the wind deity. Their structures, simple leather tents, are mobile and light, designed to easily set them up near game. They are not made of stone, and so are not considered "shelter" nor contrary to the Kthiintl. It is forbidden to kill or eat a bird or eggs during the jaald since they are sacred creatures to the wind.
Birth & Baptismal Rites
A woman close to giving birth will move in to a birthing home in their closest city, living among women who are midwives, doctors, and nurses. The homes are funded by the lord of the city. Sometimes the potential moms will move into a home instead if they feel the city is too far away. When labor begins, they move into the water.
Eight days after the birth, the nearby community will celebrate its arrival with a small party. Neighbors will work together to coordinate food and spend a night dancing. They take time to pick flowers to sew into their hats, a symbol of new life. They bathe the infant in the river, and the local priest will assign it a name. After, the mother will move back home.
Eight days after the birth, the nearby community will celebrate its arrival with a small party. Neighbors will work together to coordinate food and spend a night dancing. They take time to pick flowers to sew into their hats, a symbol of new life. They bathe the infant in the river, and the local priest will assign it a name. After, the mother will move back home.
Funerary and Memorial customs
The asleep rest in cold crypts or tombs, deep with the cold earth. Wrapped in a white cloth, they are adorned with everything to sleep comfortably forever. The tomb, called a , will be covered with symbols of Cthuung, such as paintings of the moon, antlers, or white, the color of snow.
The burial takes place at night, under the moon. The priest leads a prayer to Cthuung that the passed will rest well before they are wrapped in blanket-like clothes. The priest guides two or three family members, preferably children, as they carry the body down into the dark. They will not use any light, and will have to walk all the way to their resting place blind. Other loved ones might follow to the tomb, and wait at the top for them to return.
The burial takes place at night, under the moon. The priest leads a prayer to Cthuung that the passed will rest well before they are wrapped in blanket-like clothes. The priest guides two or three family members, preferably children, as they carry the body down into the dark. They will not use any light, and will have to walk all the way to their resting place blind. Other loved ones might follow to the tomb, and wait at the top for them to return.
Ideals
Courtship Ideals
Marriage, including romantic or sexual commitment, does not exist in original Cinpruxt culture. The sense of community is strong enough and the sense of personal belongings are weak enough to maintain a tradition of non-marriage. Sexual relationships form and dissolve without social or societal consequence. This stands in strong contrast to high-class culture.
Major organizations
Cinpruxt lifestyle is consumed by their religious connection to the world around them, called Schiin. The Cinpruxt also form their own feudalistic society, a civilization whose name is synonymous with this ethnicity.
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