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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2137782" data-attributes="member: 1125">Juni society is highly decentralised and is characterised by small family based mobs of 10 - 30 individuals. These mobs are nomadic wandering over vast territories eeking out what living they can and visiting particular sacred sites which include sacred stones, oasis, hunting areas and other sites of significance. Juni wandering is recorded in elaborate song-maps remembered by the Juni bards and celebrated in song and dance. Juni beleif is that nothing exists outside these Song-Maps  and that each place is continuously sung into being by recitation of the Song-Map. When something is encountered for the first time (and thus is not part of the Song-Map) it is considered a Dream until it is sung into being, Juni also beleive that should the Song-Map ever stop being sung the world will disintergrate.When Juni mobs meet the first part of the ritual of encounter is to recite the Song-Map of each Mob, if two Song-Maps share common sites of significance then kinship between the two mobs is recognised and freindly social interaction begins, the more common sites shared the closer the kinship recognised. Other Juni myth tells of the ancient Dragon-King who once lived wrapped around the Sun Anvil and who first sang the World into being and who had the Juni spring up from the sand with his children the Lizards at their side. It is for this reason that Juni are able to speak to reptiles including the large Setu (Monitor Lizards) which they sometimes ride over the Desert sands .The Juni age-bands also deserve comment. All Juni males upon passing childhood are intiated into a mystery cult which cut across Mobs and bind all members of a recognised Kinship area. These Cults each teach different skills useful to Juni life. Some teach magic, others the secret nature and its spirits and others the skill of warriors.One obscure Cult which has suddenly risen to prominence in the new expansion into the Bodai grasslands is the Cult of the Sand Tiger. This Cult teaches the Secret of the Blood Frenzy where a Juni can gain increase strength and endurance by tearing the flesh and drinking the blood of his enemies.</blockquote>

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