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The beliefs and origins of the ethnicity that speaks Desiken

This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 26 Jan 2021, 22:02.

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The Desiri (lit. "of the sea") were an ethnicity of people who lived on great boats in the ocean. They mainly roamed the Dragon Sea and Sira Gulf on Sahar. They have olive complexion, bright blue eyes, and brown or black hair. In modern times, they are a minority in the countries near the Dragon Sea (like Dhwer, Astalva, Tzulhon, etc.). The Desiri had the only maps of many previously unheard of islands in the Dragon Sea and Sira Gulf, until they shared it with the rest of Sahar.

Their beliefs center around four main clusters of ideas:
1) The sun, daytime, etc.
2) The moon, nighttime, etc.
3) The sea, the horizon, sunrise/sunset, etc.
4) Dreams, sleep, the power of the mind, etc.

They connect with the sun for all things positive and the moon for all things negative. Note that while they associate "good" with the sun and "bad/evil" with the moon, they don't necessarily relate "the sun" or "day" with good nor "the moon" or "night" with bad/evil.

Their belief is that the sea is to be explored, as it was so vast you would never be able to touch the horizon. Yet, the horizon was the only thing that controlled the sun and the moon. Thus, the horizon became as important as the sea, sun, and moon.

As they lived on boats, they had a sleep cycle very similar to what is now called the Everyman sleep cycle, made up of 3 short 30-45 minute naps and a nap of about 3-4 hours. This would allow them to take shifts to maintain their travel 24 hours a day. Because of this unique cultural sleep pattern, 1) people descended from the Desiri require less sleep (Source 2), and 2) experienced and remembered dreams more, and lucid dreams became expected with sleep (Source 1). Many traditional Desiri stories relate to switching between the dream world and real world. However, their nonscientific beliefs suggest that sleeping was when the soul visited a dream world with other souls who were sleeping. If you lucid dream enough in life, you would live in the dream world after death.

Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, they practiced tulpamancy, the art of creating and maintaining one or more separate consciousness/personality in the mind. (Source 3 and author's note: I am a tulpamancer myself, if you know what split personalities is, a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder, it's easier to explain. It's a psychological phenomenon where, like DID, you have a separate person in your body, but DID is a disorder caused by trauma. Tulpamancy is usually an intentional practice that is not a disorder. People with tulpas often have better lives. I wanted to make a culture like me, in a way. Then again, doesn't everyone? Anyway, back to the article.) They could dream with their tulpas, and they were separate souls within them. They're easily the most prominent aspect of Desiri culture.

In conclusion, this isn't an essay and I don't want this to be an assignment, so no conclusion. I hope you like my conculture!

Sources & Links:
Source 1: purple.com/blog/polyphasic-sleep
Source 2: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/03/410051/scientists-discover-how-gene-mutation-reduces-need-sleep
Source 3: https://tulpa.fandom.com/wiki/Tulpamancy ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article

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[link] [quote] [move] [edit] [del] 22-Apr-24 03:13 [Deactivated User]

*high fives in plural*

We are not tulpamancers ourselves, but many of us were reflexively created by the rest of us in a very similar way (by creating characters for RPGs, books, and imaginary friendship and then watching as our brain just did its Thing).

Our own conculture is very accommodating to all kinds of plural systems, including tulpamancers, and our stories tend to center plurality, so we are excited to encounter someone else writing something similar.

The rest of your culture, so far, also sounds fun to learn about. Don't know if you're still around, but if you've developed more of it, we'd love to read about it.