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The popular origin story of the people of the Seneca Islands is recounted in the so-called "''Saga of the Senecas''" (first translated in Occidental languages in 2004). In this story, purported to have occurred ten thousand years ago, a group of fishermen and their wives departed for a "great hunt" of a massive {{wp|whale}}, with the fishermen in the lead group of boats and the women (sometimes translated as families) in the second group of boats. The massive whale outsmarted the fishermen, though, and in a storm the whale destroyed the sails of both groups of boats, stranding the fleets off the coast. The story then states that [[M'acunism|Makuahine]] took pity on the group of sailors and their families and erected islands around the groups of both boats, with the fishermen's boats becoming West Seneca and the family boats becoming East Seneca. | The popular origin story of the people of the Seneca Islands is recounted in the so-called "''Saga of the Senecas''" (first translated in Occidental languages in 2004). In this story, purported to have occurred ten thousand years ago, a group of fishermen and their wives departed for a "great hunt" of a massive {{wp|whale}}, with the fishermen in the lead group of boats and the women (sometimes translated as families) in the second group of boats. The massive whale outsmarted the fishermen, though, and in a storm the whale destroyed the sails of both groups of boats, stranding the fleets off the coast. The story then states that [[M'acunism|Makuahine]] took pity on the group of sailors and their families and erected islands around the groups of both boats, with the fishermen's boats becoming West Seneca and the family boats becoming East Seneca. | ||
The archaeological record suggests the Seneca Islands have been continuously populated since the 6000s BC, although mostly by transient groups. Scholars believe the ancestors of the modern residents of the island arrived in approximately 1500 BC. The "''Saga''" says that these fishermen came from the " | The archaeological record suggests the Seneca Islands have been continuously populated since the 6000s BC, although mostly by transient groups. Scholars believe the ancestors of the modern residents of the island arrived in approximately 1500 BC. The "''Saga''" says that these fishermen came from the "far islands", i.e. [[Oyashima]], and scholars believe this part of the story may be true. The residents established rudimentary city-states by the 700s BC and the islands remained largely divided into cities and petty kingdoms until their conquest by Anzo a millennia later. | ||
===Conquest by Anzo=== | ===Conquest by Anzo=== | ||