The Land-Shapers
7 figures A family: figures with traits in common
Asag in the mountains and Namazu under the islands and the rainbow serpent carving rivers show five traditions independently arriving at the same geological intuition that the land is the record of a body's passage. This family is the bestiary's tectonic school. Its members do not live in the terrain so much as explain it.
beings whose bodies carve rivers, valleys, and quakes (asag, namazu, rainbow serpent, amaru, unhcegila) — flagship cross tradition discovery
What binds them
- Terrain shaping · 10 of them
- Tunnels through earth creating rivers and valleys · 6 of them
- Causes natural disasters · 3 of them
- Bound to specific body of water · 1 of them
- Danger in mere glimpse · 1 of them
- Punishes those who pollute or overharvest water · 1 of them
- Fatal or maddening gaze · 1 of them
Drawn from 6 groups of traditions: North american indigenous 2 · Middle eastern 1 · Oceanian 1 · South american 1 · African 1 · None 1
Members
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.