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Chapter 88: The Mog-Ur

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The members of Zorg’s Clan, who were used to the occasional flights of their Leader and living Goddess, Mariza, were shocked to see a man flying to through the air towards them.

“Zeen!” squealed Mariza as she bounded towards the Weez-Ur who had just landed in front of her, and gave him a hug. “What are you doing here?”

“I thought it was long past time that I gave you a visit,” replied Zeen. “Since Zariz will be studying magic next winter, I brought some wands for him to try out, while I visit with your Clan and if you are ready, I could even bring your Clan to the Summer Gathering.”

Mariza looked around at the shocked members of her Clan, then nodded.

“WHAT IS THAT?” waved Zurbgranaza, who had finally regained her composure.

“Pardon my rudeness,” said Zeen before signing in the ancient Clan signs: “This man is Zeen, The Mog-Ur of the Clans of the Cave Bear, son of the Great Mother, Luna, born to the Hearth of Creb, The one-eyed Mog-Ur, Weez-Ur of the Abraxas Clan of the Clanluna, mated to Griga, Jukičva, and Đišič. In the name of Ursus and Luna I greet you.”

Zeen then held out his hands in welcoming.

Zurbgranaza’s response was to sink down and sit at his feet like a Clan woman waiting for him to tap her shoulder. Mariza rolled her eyes and huffed. She’d tried so hard to break the women of Zorg’s Clan of that habit. But she’d only made any headway with the younger women, like Zurbgranaza. It was frustrating to see her backslide like this. But Zeen had been around enough pure Clan women to know how to deal with this. He tapped her on the shoulder.

“This woman apologizes for insulting The Mog-Ur and asks permission to greet him like a woman of the Others,” signed Zurbgranaza.

When Zeen nodded his assent, she stood, clasped his hands and said, in English:

“In the Name of Mariza and Ursus, I give you greetings. I am Zurbgranaza of Zorg’s Clan, daughter of Zurbgrana the medicine woman, born to the hearth of Zezbrakruk, medicine woman, mated to the Mariza, and mother of Zurgranazaga, Marizurba and Marizanaza.”

Vezava was the next to step forward and perform formal introductions. Mariza had taught the younger members of her Clan how to introduce themselves. The older members used the simple greetings of the Clan.

“This man greets you,” signed Zuradavun.

“Let me show you around,” said Mariza taking Zeen by the hand.

“Are you asking me to ‘go hunting’ with you?” teased Zeen.

“You’re so full of yourself!” laughed Mariza. “Not every woman wants to share the furs with you.”

“They don’t?” asked Zeen, surprised.

“This is the horses’ house,” explained Mariza. “We originally built it Đűmblđore style, for my family to live in, but there were too many cracks that the wind blew through so we moved back into the cave. Later we came up with the idea of covering it with a leather cover in the winter and piling snow on it for insulation.”

“Very impressive,” praised Zeen. “Maybe at the Summer Gathering, you could ask one of the Đűmbleđores to come take a look at it and give you hints to improve it.”

“And this is our beehives,” explained Mariza. “Since we started keeping bees, I’ve had to make a lot more tooth growing potions. I didn’t realize that increasing the honey in our diet would rot our teeth so badly.”

“How to you keep the bees from just flying away and building their hives somewhere else?” asked Zeen.

“I put runestones around the hives, charged to keep the queens from flying out. When they swarm in the spring, we just give them a new box to build their hive in.” replied Mariza, pointing to the bee boxes made from a hollow section of tree. Each sat on a large flat rock with another flat rock as a lid.

“This is our Cave,” said Mariza as they stepped in.

The smoke from each hearth fire formed a neat ribbon that extended from the hearth, to a small portion of the space at the top of the cave entrance.

“How did you make the smoke do that?!?” exclaimed Zeen.

“It was easy,” replied Mariza. “I just charged runstones around my hearth to repel the smoke upwards, and more runestones on ledges at the top of the cave entrance to pull the smoke out of the cave. Once they saw how well it worked, everyone wanted their hearth to do the same.”

“I had never thought of something like this before!” exclaimed Zeen. “I’m going to do this to our cave too. It’s lot less smokey this way!”

“Especially in the winter,” agreed Mariza. “That large one in the back is our hearth. I have to share it with two other families. Though we share so much, we’re really like one large family with more than two mates.”

“That’s not so usual,” replied Zeen. “I have three mates. How many does your mate have?”

“You misunderstand,” said Mariza. “Although we have two men and four women sharing this hearth, we’re mated in pairs. So I only have one mate. But we often Share each other’s mates. Though technically, as clanluna, I’m mated to everyone in the tribe. I do take my responsibilities as clanluna seriously. Although I joked about not inviting you to ‘go hunting’ with me, if you do need someone to help Relieve your Needs, I’m available. But Vezava is a clanluna too, I think she’d enjoy Sharing Pleasures with you more than me.”

“I may take her up on that . . . if she wants to,” mused Zeen.

“We also share our hearth with Međveđj and his mate, and the snowy owls,” said Mariza.

“Quite a crowded hearth,” observed Zeen.

“I know!” agreed Mariza.

Mariza then took him out to the field.

“This section of grass is a special kind,” explained Mariza. “We plant only the biggest seed pods each year’s after we harvest it. And already I can see that they are a little bigger each year. The stalks, we feed to the horses during the winter.”

“How do you prevent animals from eating it all?” asked Zeen. “Is that what those large stones are for?”

“Yes, those are sort of like runestones,” confirmed Mariza. “The circular formation helps channel the magic and they are charged like runestones, but also some of them are hooks into the place where the sun rises on the Solstices and Equinoxes, as well as particular stars. We add to it, making it a little more elaborate each year when we charge it. That way, we can cover a slightly larger area each year.”

“And see those small trees over there?” asked Mariza, as Zeen nodded. “We did the same thing there. Those were all planted from very large chestnuts. So when they mature, we should have a bunch of trees with large chestnuts.”

“Since you are here, why don’t you have a Men’s ceremony with them?” asked Mariza. “I’m certain that the men would be thrilled to do whatever it is you men do with The Mog-Ur.”

“I would be happy to,” agreed Zeen. “Must admit I have a certain amount of curiosity about the memories of these men of the Others who think they’re Clan. I assume you’ll be having a Women’s ceremony at the same time?”

“Of course!” replied Mariza.

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Than night, the men had gathered in the mog-ur’s section of the cave to sit around the Cave Bear skull for the Men’s Ceremony. Zeen had caused quite a stir when he had pulled his Cave Bear cloak out of a pouch, flicked his wand to enlarge it, and put on the magically animated Cave Bear cloak. Its’ eyes moved to look at the men of Zorg’s Clan and it emitted an occasional growl.

So here they were sitting in a circle, staring. Zeen waited for the mog-ur to begin . . . and waited . . . and waited . . .and waited . . .

Finally, Zeen grew impatient, took control and started leading the men back through the memories . . .

Zeen was familiar with the concept of paternity. He could trace back memories both matrilinealy and patralinealy. He wasn’t exactly certain how Luna mixed peoples totems, but was certain that everyone was a mixture of their mother and father.

So when he tried to trace the memories back, he kept running into the Others. Over and over men of the Others kept showing up in the memories. Finally, after going back matrilineally through the memories of the mothers of the men of Zorg’s Clan, he made it back to Zena. . . .

Zorg and Zena were born to a Clan that lived far to the North of here. They were both born ‘deformed’ almost a year after the Others attacked their Clan. When the Others attacked again, the two unlucky ‘deformed’ children were blamed and their Leader ordered that they be Death Cursed. But they refused to succumb to the Curse. Instead they traveled far to the South. Zorg and Zena matured to become adults and started their own Clan with Zorg as both Leader and mog-ur and Zena as the medicine woman. Zorg didn’t actually know much about being a mog-ur. He had witnessed a small portion of a Men’s Ceramony he had seen from a distance once. Similarly, Zena didn’t know anything about being a medicine woman. He mother was not one. She just knew a few things that a girl of the Clan would know. Later medicine women built on her knowledge a little.

But the cave of Zorg’s Clan was not without its’ hardship. For this new land had Others of its’ own. For the most part, the Others avoided Zorg’s Clan, but every few years, the men of the Others would attack the women of Zorg’s Clan and Force them to Relieve their Needs. The children of Zorg’s Clan came out more and more ‘deformed’, and the more the Clan memories faded, the more strongly the members of Zorg’s Clan clung to their traditions.

Having seen the Clan side of their memories, Zeen guided them into the memories of the Others that had mixed with them. . . . Tracing back, he finally found his way to the founders of this tribe of the Others. . . .

Senec of the Ramudoi was a violent man. He’d gotten in fights with other men and beaten his wife and children. When those-who-Serve-the-Mother began holding meetings to debate what to do with him, Senec took his mate, Etruia and their two children, Tarkin and Thoni with them. They wandered for several years. They were only temporarily staying in their cave when they met Vanth.

Vanth of the S’armunia had Forced a girl before her 1st Rites. He’d intended to beat her to death afterwards and thought he had. But she’d clung to life long enough to tell what he’d done so he fled into exile. He too, had wandered for several years, stealing food or Pleasures from anyone he pleased, then, moving on before anyone could catch him.

When Vanth met Senec, he’d thought he’d found a kindred spirit. Even though they couldn’t communicate yet, they had similar values. Vanth approved of the way Senec beat his mate and children to keep them in line. The trouble was, Senec refused to share the women. It was a very hard winter and meat was in short supply. One day while out hunting, Vanth speared Senec in the back. When Tarkin saw what Vanth was doing, he plunged his own spear in his father’s back.

That night, Vanth Forced Etruia while Tarkin Forced his sister, Thoni. Since there wasn’t a suitable mate for Tarkin, the two men shared, Forcing both women and didn’t have ‘mates’. When some of Etruia’s and Thoni’s children proved to be daughters, when they were old enough to be appealing, they were Forced too. Etruia proved to be too strong willed, so at 13, Vanth made Thoni their Vanthon (one-who-Serves-the-Mother). Together, their tribe began calling themselves: the Vanthonoi.

Etruia’s daughter, Larthuza, became Thoni’s successor as Vanthon (one-who-Serves-the-Mother). She and her brother Veltur changed things, first by establishing to people could be mated and then by establishing the rules about Forcing women. Larthuza had grown up in a world where any man could Force any woman at any time. She was the one who decided that since a woman could be Forced at anytime, that she MUST be Forced. She made it a moral duty for every woman to fight back when the men attacked. She said that was against the ways of the Goddess for a woman to enjoy Pleasures with a man who was too weak to Force her or too unpopular to get his friends to help Force her.

When a pack of flatheads moved nearby, the men started forcing them. And as the flatheads began to look more and more human, the men of the Vanthonoi revised their concept of ‘flathead’ so that the members of Zorg’s Clan would still qualify as sub-human.

Zeen pulled the men of Zorg’s Clan back into the present, horrified at what he had just seen! He closed the Ceremony and while the rest of the men returned to their hearths to Sleep, Zeen walked outside where the women were all sleeping naked on the ground where they had collapsed. He headed straight to Mariza and nudged her.

“Get your acolyte and join me when you are able,” said Zeen. “We have much to talk about.”

Zeen then walked a short distance from the cave entrance, far enough that they wouldn’t be over heard, gathered some firewood, and lit it with a silent ray from his wand. He waved his wand at some stones and transfigured three cups, then started filled the cups with water conjured from his wand, magically heated the water and started some tea brewing from a pouch that he had enlarged before adding some to the cups.

When Mariza and Vezava and gotten dressed and walked over to join him, Zeen proceeded to tell them what he had learned last night about the history of the two peoples.

“This explains a lot about them,” said Mariza.

“Well, yes. Vojkovica and I grew up amongst the Vanthanoi,” agreed Vezava. “We were always taught that we’d be bad girls if we let ourselves be Forced without fighting back. And that any man who wanted to would be able to Force us once we became women.”

“Sooner or later, we’re going to have to do something about them,” mused Zeen.

“No one knows that more than me,” agreed Mariza. “But for today, let’s get some breakfast going.”

“And after breakfast, I can get Zariz matched with a wand,” said Zeen.

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So after breakfast, Zeen enlarged a bundle of furs and enlarged it. He then unrolled it to reveal a wide assortment of wands he had made. Mariza’s son, Zariz was encouraged to swish them each until he found the one that produced the most sparks.

“Can you teach me how to do magic with it?” asked Zariz.

“Oh, no. I couldn’t,” said Zeen. “I’ll be teaching you plenty of charms next winter, but I couldn’t deprive your mother of the privilege of teaching you your first spell. Why don’t you ask her?”

“Please mama!” pleaded Zariz as he waved his wand a sparks leaked out.

“All right,” said Mariza, as she took the wand from her child’s hand. “How about the Levitation Charm? You swish and a flick your wand like this and say: Wingardium Leviosa!”

After making a stick rise into the air and setting it down, Mariza handed the wand back to her son.

“Wingblamian Lebioza” yelled Zariz as he turned one of the owls into a kangaroo for an instant before it changed back.

“Very good for a first try!” praised Zeen. “But I was surprised you didn’t use your own wand while you were teaching him . . . where is your wand?”

“Well . . . actually . . . it got broken,” admitted Mariza sheepishly.

“And then I was in transit and you couldn’t reach me,” finished Zeen. “I imagine it’s been a hard few days living without a wand. When did you break it?”

“Actually I broke it the first the first spring I was here,” admitted Mariza. “I got in a fight with a Vanthonoi man and broke it. Then he Forced me.”

“But . . .but . . . you can’t have lived without a wand all these years,” denied Zeen. “How did you charge all these runestones?”

“I used Pleasures,” explained Mariza.

Zeen looked around wildly . . . at the ribbons of smoke going from each hearth out of the cave . . . at the owls . . . at the beehives . . . . at the grazing horses and baby mammoth . . . at the patch of special grass and the stone megalith circle in the middle of it . . .

“You mean you did all this with PLEASURES!” exclaimed Zeen.









Mariza (25) - Other, (Golden blonde hair, sky-blue eyes) Leader, Ayla’s daughter, Weech, , Đučaviča’s former 2nd mate. clanluna, redfoot, N: Cr,H,R,Div, Care prodigy (Stork totem)
---Zariz (10) – ¼ Clan son of Mariza, Weez-ur
---Širiža (6) – Other, Mariza’s daughter, Weech
---Vantha (5) – Other, Mariza’s daughter, Weech
------ 5 Blink-wolves (5)
------ 1 blink-dog (3)
--------- 2 blink dogs (0)
------ 2 dogs (2)
--------- 4 dogs (0)
------Međveđj (9) Cave Bear
--------- (5) female Cave bear
------------ (1) female cave bear cub
------ 3 snowy owls (1)
---Zurbgranaza (23) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgrana, medicine woman, widow of Zuragavab, Mariza's mate
------ Zurbgranazaga (8) 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgranaza
------Marizurba (5) – 1/64 Clan daughter of Zurbgranaza
------Marizanaza (2) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgranaza
Zuradan (23) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakaza
---Vezava (19) – Other, daughter of Larnva of the Vanthonoi, abducted by Zorg's Clan, clanmariza, Zuradan's mate,
------Marizava (4) - 1/16 Clan daughter of Vezava
------Mariva (1) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Vezava
Zuradaz – (20) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakaza, (Mammoth totem)
---Vojkovica (20) – Other, daughter of Larnza of the Vanthonoi, abducted by Zorg's Clan, mate of Zuradaz, (Shamois totem)
------Marojkova (4) - 1/32 Clan daughter of Vojkovica
------Mojadaza (1) - 1/32 Clan daughter of Vojkovica

Zezbrakran (46) – 1/16 Clan son of Zezbraka, former-Leader
---Zuragavaka (39) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragava, mate of Zezbrakran
------Zuragakama (5) – 1/64 Clan daughter of Zuragavaka
------Muraga (2) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragavaka

Zurbgun (59)-1/8 Clan son of Zurbga, mog-ur
Zurvragun (44) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurvraga, mog-ur's acolyte
---Zurvgakava (35) - 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgaka, mate of Zurvragun
------Zurvgakavama (5) -1/32 Clan daughter of Zurvgakava
------Zurvgakavamza (2) - 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgakava

Zezbrakruk (43) -1/8 Clan son of Zezbraka
---Zurbgrana (43) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zurbgra, medicine woman, mate of Zezbrakruk
------Marbgra (4) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zubgrana

Zuradanak (41) -1/32 Clan son of Zuradana
---Zurvgakaza (38) – 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgaka, mate of Zuradanak
------Zurvgakazma (5) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zurvgakaza
------Murvgaka (2) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zurvgakaza

Zuradavun (41) – 1/32 Clan son of Zuradava
--- Zuragakada (42) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragaka, mate of Zuradavun
------Zuragakadama (5) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada

Zurvgav (40) – 1/8 Clan son of Zurvgava
--- Zuragakaba (34) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragaka, mate of Zurvgav
------Zuragakabama (5) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba
------Zuramariza (2) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba

Zuragavaz (24) – 1/64 Clan son of Zuragavaka, former-future Leader
---Zuragakadaza (22)– 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada, mate of Zuragavaz
------Zuragakadazad (7) – 1/64 Clan son of Zuragakadaza, former-future leader
------Zuragakadazama (5) – 1/64 Clan daughter of Zuragakadaza
------Muragakadaza (1) – 1/64 Clan daughter of Zuragakadaza

Zurvgak (20) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakava, future mog-ur's acolyte
---Zuragakabaza (19) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba, mate of Zurvgak
------Zarama (4) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakabaza
------Marama (1) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakabaza

Zubgranev (20) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurbgrana
---Zuragakadava (19) - 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada, mate of Zurbgranev
------Maraga (4) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakadava
------Mubaza (1) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakadava

Zurvgakun (17) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakava,
---Zuragakabava (16) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba, mate of Zurvgakun
------Zuragama (1) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragakabava


------Whinney and various other horses
------3 hives of Bees