Post by MoonyLuna on Jan 7, 2008 11:31:59 GMT -5
The Jewlim hordes appeared on piebald ponies
and fought pitched battles with Cribud tribes.
Superior arms, stones, decided the outcome.
Economies of stone and open-faced quarries
brought uneasy peace to the fertile valley.
The half-caste and merchant class converted.
The Jewlims believed in cutting off the ears
of subject peoples in honour of their god.
A new tolerance reigned. Trade flourished.
They settled down to barter stone for stone.
Cribuds were animists who taught that stones
had soul: the Jewlim quarries caused offence.
Cribud anchorites who lived in caves
codified their laws and sowed rebellion.
Man-made penetrations were strictly taboo.
Dust was sacred, precious stones revered
and fossils read for signs of afterlife.
They taught that sex with slaves enriched
the lineage and kept the peace (uneasy).
Children's names derived from Crib, a tongue
employed in rites of passage, courtly speech.
Cribud dead, embalmed with stones, were buried
in passage graves along the fertile valley.
Pidgins took the place of classic tongues,
the glottal stop died out, a minor creole
become a major language based on clicks
that colonized the estuaries and hampered trade.
The classic language rallied, died again.
Holy men appeared among the people
who farmed the delta mud and used the stones
from ransacked royal tombs as barter. Slaves
were sent to quarry hills where anchorites
protected passage graves of Cribud dead.
The Jewlims now believed in cutting off
the tongues of subject peoples. Clicks died out.
A class of scribes emerged who wrote on stones.
They taught that sex with slaves was wrong.
The half-castes converted, merchants thrived.
Uneasy peace returned. The valley flourished.
Copyright Padraig Rooney
and fought pitched battles with Cribud tribes.
Superior arms, stones, decided the outcome.
Economies of stone and open-faced quarries
brought uneasy peace to the fertile valley.
The half-caste and merchant class converted.
The Jewlims believed in cutting off the ears
of subject peoples in honour of their god.
A new tolerance reigned. Trade flourished.
They settled down to barter stone for stone.
Cribuds were animists who taught that stones
had soul: the Jewlim quarries caused offence.
Cribud anchorites who lived in caves
codified their laws and sowed rebellion.
Man-made penetrations were strictly taboo.
Dust was sacred, precious stones revered
and fossils read for signs of afterlife.
They taught that sex with slaves enriched
the lineage and kept the peace (uneasy).
Children's names derived from Crib, a tongue
employed in rites of passage, courtly speech.
Cribud dead, embalmed with stones, were buried
in passage graves along the fertile valley.
Pidgins took the place of classic tongues,
the glottal stop died out, a minor creole
become a major language based on clicks
that colonized the estuaries and hampered trade.
The classic language rallied, died again.
Holy men appeared among the people
who farmed the delta mud and used the stones
from ransacked royal tombs as barter. Slaves
were sent to quarry hills where anchorites
protected passage graves of Cribud dead.
The Jewlims now believed in cutting off
the tongues of subject peoples. Clicks died out.
A class of scribes emerged who wrote on stones.
They taught that sex with slaves was wrong.
The half-castes converted, merchants thrived.
Uneasy peace returned. The valley flourished.
Copyright Padraig Rooney