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<<{{image url="http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z62/ZamahLand/Wiki/QaidamTribes.jpg"}}>>Himyar, it is said, married a half-elven woman from the "snow lands" to the north, while Araval took his bride from another of the Bahaduir tribes. Although there has been considerable intermarriage between the tribes and among other peoples since then, the Himyari still exhibit a delicacy of movement and bone structure that they claim is a legacy of Himyar's wife. Blue and green eyes are not uncommon among the Himyari, making them an anomaly among the desert peoples, who otherwise tend to be dark-haired and dark-eyed with coppery skin.
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Both the Himyari and the Aravalli are subsistence herders, raising scrawny, nimble-footed goats and gray-brown desert asses on the thorny acacia and jojoba that survive in the hills. Their permanent homes are built in the shelter of the region's rock walls; when traveling, they live in lightweight, collapsible huts of stretched hide. They wear light clothes of cotton or linen, undyed except on festival occasions, when they wear brilliant colors woven into complicated geometric bands. During such occasions, the women dance with long tasselled shawls and the men compete in a game/dance called //qanzi//, leaping as high as they can while other men thrust spears under the leapers' feet.
Traditionally, sons are responsible for defending the honor of their elderly parents; men are responsible for defending the honor of their sisters, wives and daughters; and women occupy a subservient role in the tribes' culture. The exception is a //raqawi// -- a woman who is sworn to celibacy, cuts her hair short, and is treated in all ways like a man, including the right to carry weapons and use them to defend her honor. Although a //raqawi// may have been married and even have had children before swearing her vow, she is expected to be completely chaste afterward. Breaking this taboo, too, results in exile, generally self-imposed to escape the shame.
Traditionally, sons are responsible for defending the honor of their elderly parents; men are responsible for defending the honor of their sisters, wives and daughters; and women occupy a subservient role in the tribes' culture. The exception is a //raqawi// -- a woman who is sworn to celibacy, cuts her hair short, and is treated in all ways like a man, including the right to carry weapons and use them to defend her honor. Although a //raqawi// may have been married and even have had children before swearing her vow, she is expected to be completely chaste afterward. Breaking this taboo, too, results in exile, generally self-imposed to escape the shame.
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Traditionally, sons are responsible for defending the honor of their elderly parents; men are responsible for defending the honor of their sisters, wives and daughters; and women occupy a subservient role in the tribes' culture. The exception is a //raqawi// -- a woman who is sworn to celibacy, cuts her hair short, and is treated in all ways like a man, including the right to carry weapons and use them to defend her honor. Although a //raqawi// may have been married and even have had children before swearing her vow, she is expected to be completely chaste afterward. Breaking this taboo, too, results in exile (generally self-imposed to escape the shame).
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Traditionally, sons are responsible for defending the honor of their elderly parents; men are responsible for defending the honor of their sisters, wives and daughters; and women occupy a subservient role in the tribes' culture. The exception is a //raqawi// -- a woman who is sworn to celibacy, cuts her hair short, and is treated in all ways like a man, including the right to carry weapons and use them to defend her honor. Although a //raqawi// may have been married and even have had children before swearing her vow, she is expected to be completely chaste afterward. Breaking this taboo, too, results in exile (generally self-imposed to escape the shame).
