Taineans: Difference between revisions

| native_name      = Taino, Tainiens, Taínos

| caption          = Statue of a Tainean kasike<br />in [[Martinik]], [[Rumahoki]]

| region2          = {{Flag|Rumahoki}}

| region1          = {{Flag|Almadaria}}

| languages        = [[Almadarian Pelaxian]], [[Brenadine Tainean]], [[Burgoignesc]], [[Rumahokian Pelaxian]], [[Tainean language|Tainean]]

| religions        = [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]], {{wp|Calvinism|Merchantile Reform}}, [[Traditional Tainean religion|Traditional Tainean]]

The '''Taineans''', known in [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]] as '''Taínos''' and in [[Brenadine Tainean]] as '''Tainiens''' ([[Rumahoki]]/[[Equatorial Ostiecia|Ostiecia]]) or '''Taino''' ([[Arona]]), are a [[Cronan peoples|Cronan]] ethnic group found in [[Vallos]]. By the mid-to-late [[15th Century]], they were one of the three principal inhabitants of the subcontinent alongside the [[Loa]] and the [[Latinic people|Latins]], with the Taineans mostly residing alongside the Latins in the northern half of Vallos. Historically, the Taineans have lived in agricultural societies ruled by [[kasikes]] with fixed settlements and a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance (a system that modern Tainean culture still follows to this day). Tainean religion centred on the worship of the [[semi|semi'no]], which has since been adapted to revolve around major figures in Christianity.

Anthropologists have noticed some key differences for the various extant Tainean cultures, noting the difference between the more traditional [[Arona|Aronese]] and the more occidentalised Taineans of [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] and [[Rumahoki]]. The Taineans of [[Almadaria]] have diverged the most from the original Taineans, having spent many years under cultural suppression and thus have occidentalised the most. Millions of people in Vallos today identify as Tainean or claim Tainean descent, most notably in Arona, Equatorial Ostiecia, and northern Rumahoki where many have Tainean {{wp|mitochondrial DNA}}, indicating descent through a direct female line. Certain communities have claimed an unbroken traditional cultural heritage passed down from their Cronan forefathers, others are more occidentalised, and others still have underwent [[re-Taineanisation]] since the mid-[[20th Century]].

Since the mid-20th Century, re-Taineanisation policies have made it so that the terms Tainean and Taíno should refer to the Crona-originated people of Vallos. Tainean nationalism since the 19th Century has led to the terms being claimed by the Taineans themselves as their original endonym has been lost to time. Many modern scholars have subdivided the Taineans into three main groups: Traditional Taineans, from [[Arona]]; Burgo-Taineans, or Brenado-Taineans, from [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] and [[Rumahoki]]; and Pelaxo-Taineans, from [[Almadaria]].

[[File:Hecht 090710 Maagan Michael Boat 2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|One of the only two surviving examples of the Heaven Ships, displayed in the [[Inaua Museum]] in [[Rumahoki]].]]

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The ancestors of the Taineans first came to Vallos prior to the year 1000 BC. These ancient Cronans were sent via ships as part of a religious custom used to send criminals and other undesirables from [[North Songun civilization|North Songun]] society. The idea was that these ships served as a chance of redemption for the damned, essentially putting them at the mercy of the gods. Very few of these ships have managed to reach anywhere beyond Crona, but a majority of these surviving ships are said to have landed on the shores of Vallos wherein the passengers onboard began to establish villages. The arrival of these ships were intermittent, often with long periods of time between each arrival. This prompted the ones lucky to have made it to Vallos to intermarry with the indigenous [[Vallosi people]] almost immediately to ensure survival. Ultimately, although these Cronan-descended people were majority-Vallosi, they practiced Cronan traditions for the most part. However, the first signs of a culture that could be recognised as Tainean wouldn't happen until around the year 500 BC, largely the result of Cronan cultures blending in with indigenous Vallosi influences.