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My people are the Ikuti. It means “followers,” or so the missionaries translate it. We follow our own path, we do not need their religion. Every village that has converted to the gereja, the church, the missionaries preach has been swallowed by the lava.
We are at the base of Gunung-Api, our volcano and our god. If you lived near the base of a volcano, you would worship and fear it too, and it is more immediate than the god the missionaries tell us of. He takes care of you after death, but Gunung-Api can help you prosper or destroy you in this life.
I am Mahal-Api, daughter of the chief of the Ikuti. My name means lovely fire; I was named in honor of the volcano god. My mother died years ago, and my father has the duties of a chief to keep him busy. He deals with the men from the East India Company, serves them food and drink in his house, trying to keep them from using their power over the British to crush us.
My father does not notice the way the East India men watch us all, their eyes moving over our land and crops with hunger, over our women with a different kind of hunger. My father does not see, but I see.
We were waiting for the East India men to return, some of our men watching from the trees while I brought them snacks, when I saw the ship. It did not look like an East India Trading Company ship, so I sat down in the sand to watch it approach.
OOC: This is a closed thread. To get the names of the island things, I used http://www.freedict.com/onldict/ind.html this translator.
We are at the base of Gunung-Api, our volcano and our god. If you lived near the base of a volcano, you would worship and fear it too, and it is more immediate than the god the missionaries tell us of. He takes care of you after death, but Gunung-Api can help you prosper or destroy you in this life.
I am Mahal-Api, daughter of the chief of the Ikuti. My name means lovely fire; I was named in honor of the volcano god. My mother died years ago, and my father has the duties of a chief to keep him busy. He deals with the men from the East India Company, serves them food and drink in his house, trying to keep them from using their power over the British to crush us.
My father does not notice the way the East India men watch us all, their eyes moving over our land and crops with hunger, over our women with a different kind of hunger. My father does not see, but I see.
We were waiting for the East India men to return, some of our men watching from the trees while I brought them snacks, when I saw the ship. It did not look like an East India Trading Company ship, so I sat down in the sand to watch it approach.
OOC: This is a closed thread. To get the names of the island things, I used http://www.freedict.com/onldict/ind.html this translator.