Map 26 – Alïnoha [Lingonland]

[Lingon]

Attention J!
Before the mammoth-herding tribes were found, the settlers stumbled upon a sculpture high up in the Eight-Fold Massif. It was a stone face, about the size of a human head, with two large tusks of an unknown kind attached to it. In the broken ends of the tusks, saplings had been planted.
The sculpture was made by the Ral'Doth tribe, and similar icons are created by all the native tribes of Alïnoha. They are rarely made from full-grown mammoth tusks, as these are too valuable to build winter houses from, but when a juvenile falls victim to a predator or illness, its tusks are often put to use as art. No-one remembers why they do these sculptures anymore, it's just one of those traditions that nobody wants to stop. They are interpreted as symbols of the human-nature relationship, of death giving new life, and of the spirit world and material world united. Though there are infinite variations on both meaning and physical form of the sculpture, it's a symbol which everyone in Alïnoha, be they nomad or resident, can identify with.