RQ inspirations from museum visits

[David Scott]

 

I was at the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford yesterday to see the new Evenki exhibition (sadly the dates were wrong on the website! GRRRR), but did of course see lots of other cool stuff:

Shaman maps, this one is likely a coastal culture. You can see the fish and deer spirit vortices, perhaps a Fronelan hunter shaman.

• https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/7955-im-still-confused-about-spirit-travel/#comment-114510
• https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/7955-im-still-confused-about-spirit-travel/#comment-114771
• https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/15421-animist-heroquesting/#comment-242318

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Lightning Boy (Pitt Rivers)

Here is a ritual representation of Lightning Boy (or Hosar as he's known amongst the Praxians). It's about 2m long. Contrast it with Orlanth's Thunderbolt.

 

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Odayla hunter's Bear Skull fetish (Pitt Rivers)

Made from their first bear kill from their initiation. Decorated with the story of their initiation bear hunt, you can see the hunter with his shadowcat, along with the many trials they had to find and catch a bear (called the Bear Dance).

Edited September 3, 2022 by David Scott

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Apple House spirit (Pitt Rivers)

These are made by the children of Apple Lane from an apple from the Apple tree wyter that stands outside the Thane's house. One is decorated with 12 raisins given to a children who attended the grape harvest in Clearwine, by the Earth priestess. On the first day after Sacred time they are paraded around the hamlet to represent the return of the Sun and they are then returned to their homes to sit by the fire.

 

Edited September 3, 2022 by David Scott

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Odayla icons with foci and matrices (Pitt Rivers)

Multimissile command (animal), and a sureshot & Draw (beast) matrix

 

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Duck decorative edging for a tray (Ashmolean museum, Oxford)

Ritual Copper tray, presented to Argrath on him becoming Price of Sartar by the High Priestess of the Ducks.

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An inscribed spell grimoire (Pitt Rivers)

On copper (gives +10% chance to any spell using the Earth rune), each triangle has a spell in it.

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Puffin keet Shaman's rattle (Pitt Rivers)

This kind of rattle is quite common, where the jangly bits are made from the shaman's fetch or power animal parts (real life version, not the spirit). So hooves, pieces of bone and antler, beaks, teeth, are normal.

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Cool stuff from a cool museum