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Old 06-06-2019, 12:34 PM   #23
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Default Re: Powerstone historical names

Just thought of a cool one:
The seripigari shamans of the Matsigenka people of Peru maintain a contract of friendship with a spirit being called a saangarite. The friendship is established and maintained through the discovery and cultivation of a stone called a Serepitontsi stone, which is a particular translucent blue stone with indentations resembling a human face, found beside rivers. The seripigari feeds the serepitontsi stone tobacco juice until the stone (and thus, the conduit to the spirit) becomes powerful. Then the seripigari evokes the spirit friend to perform healing (edit: various rituals, not necessarily healing), which taxes their bond. The stone must then be recharged with tobacco juice. Side Note: the tobacco juice is believed to, in general, strengthen the bonds of kinship by invoking cosmic forces. It's also used in diplomatic overtures. So feeding the stone is essentially super-charged diplomacy, and the other rituals surrounding the maintenance of a friendship with the saangarite spirits are also practices adopted to mitigate differences between the species and enhance similarities; in other words, good diplomacy.

This provides a construct for a form of powerstone which only recharges by some contracted behavior [special recharge] because the stone is a diplomatic conduit. Access to the powerstone's reservoir might require a pact disadvantage.

Edit: source: Rosengren, D. (2006), Transdimensional relations: on human‐spirit interaction in the Amazon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12: 803-816. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00364.x
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