Talk:Vallos

The known history of Vallos stretches back to approximately 1000 to 800 BCE with the rise of the Solanian and Zychy city states. Prior to the arrival of the Latinic Solanians, Vallos was predominantly home to nomadic Sarpic horticulturalists, who grew sorghum and lived in stilt houses as to avoid the seasonal floods. Around approximately 1000 BCE, the first evidence of Latinic migration to northeastern Vallos has been discovered in modern day Cartadania, with a citystate named Solan being based in the modern day island of Porto Bianca. The Solanians recorded themselves as being descended from the Adonerii League, having migrated west to Vallos under the command of the semi-mythical ancestor Solanao, who established the city after conquering a native Sarpic tribe. Due to the influential nature of this first city, Solanian is used as a general term for the Vallosian Latins. After this, various Latinic city states began to crop up on the eastern coast, concurrent with the rise if an influential, sedentary Sarpic kingdom in the west. Latinic explorers recorded contact and interaction with the city state of Zici, commonly called the Zychy in modern day transliteration. The Zychy lent their name to the entirety of the West Sarpic city states in Latinic writings.

The Zychy did not keep written records, and as such much of their culture and civilization exists either in Solanian records or in cultural artifacts absorbed by the Loa. The Solanian citystates recorded five prominent Zychy settlements; Zychy itself along with Tichelnisorous (Tzelnizoros), Ileben, Ostrac (Oztracht) and Hibiscia (Hybysczc). The cities were all based around sacred wells, with Zychy possessing the most sacred well of all, said to be the dwelling place of the cthonic Zychy gods. Today, it is worshipped as the Wellspring of Song by the Loa. It was noted that the Zychy did not possess bronze or ironworking until their contact with the Solanians.

The Proto-Loa also appeared in the Solanian records, being noted as rice farmers who lived along of the southern rivers. The Solanians recorded that the early Loa claimed to have traveled across the sea only a generations ago, and throughout the history of Solan, the records indicate that increasing numbers of Loa migrated over from the souther sea, claiming to be fleeing a series of catastrophic floods. They also recorded that the Loa worshipped a "Mother Ghost" who descended from heaven to possess the queens of the Loa, in what might be an early version of the Incarnate, and sacrificed pigs, humans and "small slaves" (thought to be the Sikabenuala) to their goddess.

The Solanian, Zychy and Early Loa city states grew through mutual trade and warfare, with the north and central regions being disputed territory between the civilizations. By 658 BCE, the Solanian had organized into a federation of republican citystates, and began to extend latinic control over the subcontinent, while the Zychy continously rebuked and contested their advances while the Loa experienced a period of peace and prosperity as the migrations ceased and a writing systen was developed, inspired by the alphabet of the Solanians. Eventually, the Solanians and Loa united subjugate the Zychy, with the last independent Zychy city being subjugated by 389 BCE. A few centuries if oece reigned as the Loa city states were consolidated and the Solanians prospered from trade between Vallos and Sarpedon. However, by 167 BCE, the Solanians experienced significant internal strife between the various city states, and the Loa came under strain from a new wave of migration. By 140 BCE, the Loa warlord Banakuka united much of Polynesian Vallos and led numerous wars against the Solanians, with the federation finally collapsing in 87 BCE. This year marks the end of Classical History in Vallos as the Latinic and Sarpic people begin to be assimilated into the new Polynesian dominance.

History

Eventually Early Loa Empire (Kingdom of Mi'isima) which stretches from modern day Takatta Loa to just north of big central lake and north part of Eastern blank space. This is where prehistory leaves off.

Religion

Religion in ancient Vallos was diverse, with the Solanians revering a trinity of goddesses (Kore, Zeiama and Trina) along with a plethora of minor gods and goddesses; the Zychy worshipping the sacred wells that dot Vallos and the cthonic gods stated to inhabit them; and the Proto-Loa worshipping a ancestral mother goddess said to possess the living queens. In the end however, all these indigenous faiths have been supplanted by either the Catholic Church or absorbed by the Kapuhenasa.

Solanian Faith

The Solanians worshipped three principle deities; Zeiama, a fertility goddess who was said to have sway over the wet and dry seasons as well as the ocean, Trina, a messenger and liminal goddess who was said to guide people towards prosperity and safety and away from harm and ruin, and Kora, the goddess of the underworld and the dead. All of these goddesses had many numerous attendants, but ultimately every Solanian city had at least one temple devoted to each goddess, with certain cities adopting a goddess as the patron deity of said city. The city of Solan in particular revered Zeiama as their patron goddess.

There were also many annual festivals dedicated to the goddesses, with the New Years festival, the Guerontous festival dedicated to the ending of the Vallosian dry season, the Vansimarin festival dedicated to the dead and Kora, and the Festival of Lights, which was devoted to Trina. These festivals were accompanied by sacrifice of pigs, dogs and chicken and the parading of idols throughout the city.