https://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Besokan_riverBesokan river - Revision history2026-04-05T19:55:54ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.36.1https://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Besokan_river&diff=860&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 11:40, 20 April 20232023-04-20T11:40:18Z<p></p>
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</table>Michaelmgoesslerhttps://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Besokan_river&diff=845&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 10:11, 19 April 20232023-04-19T10:11:25Z<p></p>
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</table>Michaelmgoesslerhttps://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Besokan_river&diff=778&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 13:00, 14 April 20232023-04-14T13:00:53Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Michaelmgoesslerhttps://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Besokan_river&diff=766&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 09:49, 14 April 20232023-04-14T09:49:55Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Loire in Amboise.jpg|thumb|The Besokan is shallow for most of its upper course, passing fields of sand and gravel, comparable to the Loire in central France.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Loire in Amboise.jpg|thumb|The Besokan is shallow for most of its upper course, passing fields of sand and gravel, comparable to the Loire in central France.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The source of the Besokan is located in the Erkenmian Mountains north of Kernogori. It has no major tributary on its course through the [[Kernogori|Dark Valley]] but is said to be ‘fed by a thousand streams’ as it passes through the fertile landscape, and reaching Dom the river has already grown to a major body of water. From there, it turns south, passing the southeastern end of the Reknayan Wall and entering a narrower valley, the '''Besokan Valley''' proper, between the Herna mountains and the Párian Ridge. For most of its upper course, passing large beds of gravel and sand, and despite its renowned width, the Besokan does not achieve a great depth, remaining relatively shallow until it enters the plain of Tár. The river proceeds in a trough close to the Herna mountains, again fed by countless small streams and growing in sizeuntil it forms Lake Marin immediately north of the gorge of the same name, the southern entrance of Tár. Exiting the gorge and passing Nishûnâc, the remainder of its course is hemmed by rolling hills and dense woodland, the Forests of the Besokan. It is here that the Besokan meets its major tributary, the [[Estennil river]]. The combined bodies of water reach a maximal width of 317 elôrini, the widest of any river in Elondor. They mouth into the Gulf of Seligon forming a bar-built estuary between the islands of Golim and Kirospel.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The source of the Besokan is located in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Erkenmian Mountains<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>north of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Kernogori<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. It has no major tributary on its course through the [[Kernogori|Dark Valley]] but is said to be ‘fed by a thousand streams’<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref>[[Tonin of Senongrál]], ''Praise to the Kernogori''</ref> </ins>as it passes through the fertile landscape, and reaching <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Dom<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>the river has already grown to a major body of water. From there, it turns south, passing the southeastern end of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Reknayan Wall<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and entering a narrower valley, the '''Besokan Valley''' proper, between the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Herna<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>mountains and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Pár|</ins>Párian Ridge<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. For most of its upper course, passing large beds of gravel and sand, and despite its renowned width, the Besokan does not achieve a great depth, remaining relatively shallow until it enters the plain of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Tár<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. The river proceeds in a trough close to the Herna mountains, again fed by countless small streams and growing in sizeuntil it forms <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Lake Marin<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>immediately north of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Marin gorge|</ins>gorge of the same name<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, the southern entrance of Tár. Exiting the gorge and passing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Nishûnâc<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, the remainder of its course is hemmed by rolling hills and dense woodland, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Forests of the Besokan<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. It is here that the Besokan meets its major tributary, the [[Estennil river]]. The combined bodies of water reach a maximal width of 317 elôrini, the widest of any river in Elondor. They mouth into the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Gulf of Seligon<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>forming a bar-built estuary between the islands of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Golim<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Kirospel<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The lower Besokan Valley was the original homeland of the Besokian peoples, who referred to it as ‘Great Mother’, equating it with their main goddess (a figure comparable to both the goddess Ílgar and the titan Kána in Olgish mythology). Much of the early <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Besokain </del>cult at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nish</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The lower Besokan Valley was the original homeland of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Besokian peoples<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, who referred to it as ‘Great Mother’, equating it with their main goddess <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Kônôwis]] </ins>(a figure comparable to both the goddess <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Ílgar<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and the titan <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Kána<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Olgish mythology<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>). Much of the early <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Besokian cult]] at Nishûnâc was centred on reverence of the Besokan as ‘life-giver’ to the [[Three Hills|Second Hill]]. The river is noted on the [[Old Besokian World Map]], and several of the younger [[Nishûnâc carvings|Nishûnâc hymns]] are devoted to it. Worship of Kônôwis seems to have declined with the decline of Nishûnâc. As the Besokian nations spread across the [[Reknaya]] and [[Belkondíl]], separating them further and further from their ancestral homeland, the river’s significance in their </ins>cult <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diminished, remaining notable only in [[Reknayan religion]].</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Michaelmgoesslerhttps://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Besokan_river&diff=765&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 09:29, 14 April 20232023-04-14T09:29:16Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.</div></td></tr>
</table>Michaelmgoesslerhttps://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Besokan_river&diff=762&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 09:26, 14 April 20232023-04-14T09:26:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Loire in Amboise.jpg|thumb|The Besokan is shallow for most of its upper course, passing fields of sand and gravel, comparable to the Loire in central France.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Loire in Amboise.jpg|thumb|The Besokan is shallow for most of its upper course, passing fields of sand and gravel, comparable to the Loire in central France.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The source of the Besokan is located in the Erkenmian Mountains north of Kernogori. It has no major tributary on its course through the [[Kernogori|Dark Valley]] but is said to be ‘fed by a thousand streams’ as it passes through the fertile landscape, and reaching Dom the river has already grown to a major body of water. From there, it turns south, passing the southeastern end of the Reknayan Wall and entering a narrower valley, the '''Besokan Valley''' proper, between the Herna mountains and the Párian Ridge. For most of its upper course, passing large beds of gravel and sand, and despite its renowned width, the Besokan does not achieve a great depth, remaining relatively shallow until it enters the plain of Tár. The river proceeds in a trough close to the Herna mountains, again fed by countless small streams and growing in sizeuntil it forms Lake Marin immediately north of the gorge of the same name, the southern entrance of Tár. Exiting the gorge and passing Nishûnâc, the remainder of its course is hemmed by rolling hills and dense woodland, the Forests of the Besokan. It <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mouths </del>into the Gulf of Seligon forming a bar-built estuary between the islands of Golim and Kirospel.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The source of the Besokan is located in the Erkenmian Mountains north of Kernogori. It has no major tributary on its course through the [[Kernogori|Dark Valley]] but is said to be ‘fed by a thousand streams’ as it passes through the fertile landscape, and reaching Dom the river has already grown to a major body of water. From there, it turns south, passing the southeastern end of the Reknayan Wall and entering a narrower valley, the '''Besokan Valley''' proper, between the Herna mountains and the Párian Ridge. For most of its upper course, passing large beds of gravel and sand, and despite its renowned width, the Besokan does not achieve a great depth, remaining relatively shallow until it enters the plain of Tár. The river proceeds in a trough close to the Herna mountains, again fed by countless small streams and growing in sizeuntil it forms Lake Marin immediately north of the gorge of the same name, the southern entrance of Tár. Exiting the gorge and passing Nishûnâc, the remainder of its course is hemmed by rolling hills and dense woodland, the Forests of the Besokan. It <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is here that the Besokan meets its major tributary, the [[Estennil river]]. The combined bodies of water reach a maximal width of 317 elôrini, the widest of any river in Elondor. They mouth </ins>into the Gulf of Seligon forming a bar-built estuary between the islands of Golim and Kirospel.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.</div></td></tr>
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