Do you have a real story derived from the history about what you mentioned ?
What I have envisioned is a set of six stories that take place from roughly 12,000 BC to 3,000 BC. In part 1 (12,000 BC) , the reoccupation of a formerly glaciated area is the back-drop for my introduction of my People, and explanation of the life-ways, including introduction of a main character, a sort of semi-mythical culture-hero who is later claimed (by the character in part 4) as the catalyst for the whole worldview. In part 2 (~ 9,000 BC), I deal with the coalescence of several bands into a single 'proto-polity', and issues such as 'who do we include, and can it include those who speak different languages?' In part 3, (8,000 BC) my People deal with invasion by hostiles, questions of the value of their culture and why it should be maintained or abandoned, and a form of 'Renaissance', leading to a big push toward a higher level of cultural development and a more insightful spirituality- a form of 'collective shamanism'. In part 4, (5,000 BC), a cultural 'apologist' responds to her own relative who has taken up sedentarism, about the value and honor of 'the old ways' ( high-order foraging with seasonal nomadism). In part 5, (4,000 BC) the story is told from the point of view of a foreigner [who may be a Tocharian], about the People, who have become very-well-adapted to the use of horse, thus vastly increasing their nomadism. In part 6, (3,000 BC) my final character laments the loss of the way of life of the People, as the Indo-Europeans, Turkics, and Sinitics have basically come to dominate what used to be their homeland, succeeding in introducing organized pastoralism, agriculture, and sedentism. He is supposedly a member of the 'new' religion, but still has shamanic visions, which trouble him. I do not mean this as any sort of Paleo-Siberian political tract- it is just a story and I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible, but also to stretch the knowns a bit to make for an interesting tale.
i loved that , the idea and how you will manage the parts plus your description reflects an expected best seller hopefully. Good luck
Most of writers have written nonfiction and fiction. Some writers wrote a science fiction novel that was very autobiographical about experience of depression and then some wrote a nonfiction book about depression. They were both about the same truth, but from different angles and they wouldn’t have been able to write the nonfiction without the fiction first. We need both genres, sometimes at the same time because the moment we trust too much in one fixed idea of reality is the moment we lose it.
Kiran; I agree. I'm trying to set a scenario for a series of stories something like the Irish myths: things written much later, and less-than-critically, about real events and persons -- thus becoming legends and myths.
Thomas E. Lehman,
Thanks for your agreement, I appreciate your communication.
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