A "treasure", according to Praxian ideas, could have
several meaning:
a male treasure (something for war), frex a weapon.
a female treasure (something for nurturing herds),
frex a fertility charm.
a magic treasure (something for shamans, ancestors,
spirits etc) frex an axis-mundi drum.
> 3. The absence of the 48oo from NG can be explained
> by the fact that they have zero military utility.
> NG
> was a boardgame of warfare.
yes but in warfare logistics matter.
Even in nomadic warfare (as long as nomads eat and
breath and walk and drink in order to survive and to
fight).
And logistics must be related to herds and magic too,
not just to weapons. The famine tactic of warfare is
based on control of the growing power of the land
(agriculture, pasture, water). No sensible Praxian
Khan should avoid to consider the owning of these kind
of treasures, such as the horn of plenty, in times of
war.
The repairing of the horn could well having been
performed in eiritha tradition, but probably the broad
horn of plenty myth has some previous/outside of
eiritha connections. Maybe "after" eiritha it is
bovine (er... not in the sense of cow and beef but in
the sense of not ovine) but before it was caprine or
ovine.
Where sheeps and rams still live in Prax and the
greatlands (or in the greatlands sky) a proto-horn of
plenty myth could be still known.
And what about the Unihorn lesser tribe?
Hope these scattered ideas of mine has some worth...
Ciao,
Gian
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