kiitossanan
Kiitossanan is a ceremonial practice described in fictional worldbuilding contexts as a form of communal storytelling that also functions as a governance and memory-keeping ritual among the Kiitossa people. The term denotes an organized performance in which memory, law, lineage, and social decisions are encoded through speech, gesture, and symbolic objects. In many sources, kiitossanan is presented as a key institution for maintaining social cohesion and legitimacy of community actions.
A typical kiitossanan centers on an elder narrator who initiates a sequence of speakers. Participants recite
The term kiitossanan is described as arising from the Kiitossa language within fictional source material. Etymology
Cultural significance and modern depictions
In the fictional setting, kiitossanan reinforces social structure, records lineage and land rights, and teaches younger