User:Krugmar/Okuocha

Customs

The ok'uocha were also known to extensively use the Khimba as both a ceremonial dance, and also as an intimidating war dance. Much of the evidence for this is oral, passed down through indigenous communities who kept ok'uochan traditions alive, although one account from modern-day Aucuria survives. Kostas Nevronis, a local official writing in 1548, wrote an account of the village of Čemages, at the time a small village exclusively inhabited by indigenous Aucucrians, was raided by ok'uocha. He noted that the ok'uocha did not immediately attack, instead performing a series of frantic movements, waving their weapons, shouting, and hopping about, as the villagers of Čemages gathered. The villagers then gave tribute one by one, apparently enough to satisfy the ok'uocha who left the village unmolested. Nevronis also notes that one of the ok'uocha came over to him, presumably to ask for tribute, but stopped to study him, and was called back by one of his comrades. Nevronis assumed that he was not the first Euclean these ok'uocha had met, and historian Merkelis Zvybas has posited that these ok'uocha may have not only met Gaullican bannierants, but may indeed have worked for them.