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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 6624812" data-attributes="member: 6788652">For the humans of the cold north, the main festival is Marrow. A mammoth is slaughtered, and the villagers will spend three days butchering it and preparing the meat. Until on the fourth day the bones are remaining, and a corridor is made of its empty rib cage. At one end the head and tusks are arranged like an altar, and all couples seeking marriage will process down the rib corridor to the skull altar where the priest blesses their union before all the village. The whole community then feast on the meat and the heart of the mammoth. It is considered bad luck for there to be any meat left on the bones by the end of the night.Following the fourth day the villagers then will help build a shelter around the bones, made of hides and similar to an American Indian style dwelling. The head of the mammoth remains as an altar/chair, and the whole serves as the village 'thing' hall for the coming year. Obviously, the larger the mammoth the more auspicious the year is seen to be.The previous years 'thing' hall is pulled down a month before the ceremony, and the old bones and skull are packed away and used in the bone fire made to smoke the new years mammoth meat.During this month without a 'thing' hall the village has no council chamber and they are expected to behave civilly to one another as without the head of the village to arbitrate disputes, there can be no final arbiter. Feuds are put aside. Children will play pranks with no council to scold them. This is indulged - but not forgotten should they go too far! This month represents the village community coming together as one, and traditionally no arguments should be had. This month is seen to represent the 'bones' of the community, with the values that hold them together being the marrow of the community. If the head man should die, the village should be able to function. It serves to remind them that no one man is worth more than the village.How's that?</blockquote>

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