Stavhanas
Stavhanas is a fictional cultural tradition used in speculative fiction and thought experiments to illustrate ritual economies, material culture, and kin-based social organization in a coastal archipelago imagined across multiple works. The term Stavhanas is a constructed label applied to both the people who practice the system and the social practices that define it.
Core to Stavhanas is the stavha, a ceremonial staff carved from local cedar and inlaid with shells,
Ritual life centers on the Stavhana festival, a multi-day sequence of processions, songs, and performances that
Geography and history within Stavhanas lore place the tradition in an imagined eastern-sea archipelago, with settlement
In reception, Stavhanas is used in world-building, critical essays on ritual economies, and tabletop or narrative