History of the Bering Tribes
Chapter 1: The Beginning
The winds whipped violently, the snow seemed to fall forever, and very little food was to be found, but this island is what the Beringians called home. They primarily fisher in the rough Arctic Ocean, searching for Arctic cod and other fish that swam the seas. Though, in this weather it was common for a man to go out and fish, and never return. Legends grew from that, saying that the men who died were taken as sacrifice to the gods of ice and storms, Hydice and Rapis respectively. In the Beringian Religion, they were regarded as dark forces, all most like the devils in monotheistic religions. The god, Weat, grew as a heroic figure in many earlier myths due to his protective nature of the people. Called the Silencer of Winds, because in one myth when the god Rapis didn't get enough sacrifices, he summoned a giant storm to kill many of the Bering Island. Weat grabbed the storm, and hurled it back at Rapis, knocking him into the water below. Every year, the villagers hold a festival in honour of the god who saved them.
All these ideas of the the lost fishermen being sacrifices to the storm and ice gods changed with the Tale of Advty. Advty was a fishermen, who lived late in the Isolation period of the Bering Tribes. Knocked off course by a storm one day, he landed in a land he called Alalsee, where trees grew and the snow fell lighter. He then, in some tales of the myth, was contacted by Hyrwas, the god of the sea. Hrywas told him the way back to the Home Island, and packing his things up, he set sail back his home. He quickly told his tale to the people there, and soon everyone wanted to get from the winds and storms of the island, and to the wonderful land of Alalsee. Historians argue if there is any truth in this legend, but all agree that the story started but began known as the Migration Period.
Bering Tribes
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