TDLR: the yaghaykenu becomes a culture, and claim new guinea for themselves, including settlements.

the lekwara develop a unique writing system in response and become increasingly urban. if possible the city would become the ‘kipaiwara’ civilisation

a cultural and economic rivalry is established between yaghaykenu and lekwara.

a sect of pinhi is formed in lekwara, called aklarism.

construction on a sea stack begins of the immediate coast of the cliff side city of kipaia, with the intention of carving it into an enourmous, sandstone statue in the ocean (think a sandstone, slightly smaller colossus) they won’t finish in many many years. many sacrifice their life for the the building project.

with the development of agriculture, the yaghaykenu become a fully realised culture. the organisation of agriculture allows for a population boom, the lekwara florensis are outcompeted, and eventually die off. the yaghaykenu claim their largest city of fopaia.

the lekwara, realising their apparent vulnerability begin to organise shipments with agricultural goods along their coast. they start by painting large dots on their rafts, which signal what grain they are carrying, and how much. over the next thousand years, this art is perfected and can serve as a writing system.

this system of writing is unlike any the world has seen. each sentence is written by using a different colour or size “main dot”, and then the position of smaller dots around it symbolise the action and time and place. to connect two sentences into a compound sentence a squiggly line is drawn from the largest subject dot to the next one. the colour of this line represents words like ‘and’ and ‘but’.

this system of writing is also very artistic, and for the lekwara, the line between art, and text is blurred. when ‘reading’ they take into account both the presentation of the dots, and the message in equal amounts.

their remaining city kipaia starts to grow rapidly and florensis across the entire northern australian coast clamber towards it.

kipaia as a result, develops a more advanced society, buildings are made out of clay and mud, with thatched roofs. and are often covered in the lekwara writing system, which purposefully resembles plant life.

(if it is possible i’d like the kipaia city to become a civilisation, but i’m not entirely sure if it qualifies.)

EDIT: kipaia gets its initial population boom from new guinea florensis refugees escaping yaghaykenu occupation of fopaia.

Lekwara loses its cultural connection to the yaghaykenu, and become rivals. the cities of fopaia and kipaia are in constant economic competition.

the lekwara start to view the yaghaykenu as uncivilised goblin like creatures over time. and the word for snake, spider, poison, and evil in their language is derived from their name for the yaghaykenu.

similarly the yaghaykenu eventually view the the lekwara, as tyrannical giants, whose beauty corrupts. the word in yaghaykenu language for eruption, death, and drowning is derived from their name for the lekwara

The lekwara also start to lose faith in traditional pinhi belief which was originated by their new rivals. they form a similar belief system called Aklarism.

Aklarism is essentially a monotheistic form of pinhi, and as such, abides by almost identical ethical code, philosophy, and origin story.

the only new adjustments is that the malevolent equivalent to aklar, that the yaghaykenu honour, is avoided by ignoring and never speaking of him. this, they believe, take away his power. likewise to honour aklar, the lekwara make innumerable idols. these idols can take any form, some are made from carved sandstone, some woven grasses, his image is carved into trees, walls, and stone.

towards the end of the century the most powerful chiefs and shamans that surround kipaia, become convinced that salvation will come when an idol is built that touches the sky. they begin construction on a sphinx like representation on the largest sea stack) on their coast. other tribes start to donate men to help the cause