Jæchoveñe culture

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Creation
At first, the Water created the Land, the Thunder which was jealous of the ability of the Water to create, wanted to destroy it's creation, so the Thunder burned the Land. The Water being wise, understood the Thunder's reaction, and hugged it's creation to give it life again. Peter Younan (talk) 15:39, 12 January 2016 (UTC) Andrea Sawaya (talk) 15:43, 12 January 2016 (UTC) --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 15:45, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou Elias --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Myth
Every time it rains and the thunder strikes the Jæchoveñat think that there's a battle going on between their God the Water and the devil the Thunder, so they all run to gather around in the VOTES to pray for the battle to end and to help out their God to win this fight. But when it only rains, the Jæchoveñat are happy and dance all day all night to the sound of their beloved God, the Water, they believe that their God is helping them to get threw a tough time. --Yara Hankash (talk) 14:41, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 15:46, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou Elias --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Ceremony
The Votes is the place where the Jæchoveñat pray, it's basically at the beach in front of the sea, except it's covered so that the Thunder doesn't hurt them. They pray and pray until the Thunder stops striking, that's when they know that the Water won the battle. They pray by laying down and rolling around in the sand, acting like fish, since the fish come from the Water's guts, and they would be honoured to come from their God's guts. --Yara Hankash (talk) 14:41, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 15:47, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou Elias --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

The Jæchoveñat and Religion
The Jæchoveñat are very religious, all of their culture is based on Religion. They have a tradition, that's very popular: Every time someone makes some kind of mistake, they pour on the head of the person a bucket of Water, to symbolise the forgiveness that the Water did towards the Thunder when the Water hugged it's creation. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:46, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

The Pinky Toe
The pinky toe of the right foot is the most important body part, it's more important than the face, than hair, or than anything else. The Jæchoveñat wear socks that are ripped on the right pinky toe. The more beautiful the pinky toe is, the more beautiful the person is.--Yara Hankash (talk) 17:14, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Votes Dress Code
The Jæchoveñat wear a Votcho at the votes, it's a long blue pancho. The colour represents their God, and the pancho represents the wideness of the sea. --Yara Hankash (talk) 14:44, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 05:01, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou Elias --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi Raymond Younan (talk) 21:59, 15 January 2016 (UTC)



Every Day Dress Code
The Jæchoveñat's casual dress code include a brown or blue shirt and a pair of jeans with black socks that are ripped on the right pinky toe of course. But only lifeguards wear blue socks ripped on the right pinky toe. Moreover, married people rip both pinky toes. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:46, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Marriage
The Bride and Groom both wear white shirts and a tie. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Birth
While giving birth, the father of the baby has to crown his wife with a crown he made himself out of paper decorated with sea shells. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Food Menu
On special days, such as weddings, birthdays and so on the Jæchoveñat eat those 3 most popular dishes: For breakfast: Sedeagne : cucumber, tomato, ham. For lunch: Tovago : tuna, mushrooms, parsley, and watermelon. For dinner: Fouwas : rice, chilly, orange and chicken. Sacha Khoury (talk) 18:08, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Traditional food
The Jæchoveñat's "Destapowa" is their traditional dish. They eat it to remember their god (which is water) emerging victorious from the war with their enemy the thunder. Eating this traditional dish means a lot to the Jæchoveñat because their God that saved them by defeating their mortal enemy. The Destapowa is mainly constituted of: lemon, olives, capre, green onions, goat cheese, walnuts, salmon and artichoke. They've chosen the artichoke as the essentiel ingredient because of its leaves which remind them of the tree of life their God made to bless all the tribe's children. Salmon is the second most important ingredient because this fish represents the begenning of underwater life and reminds the Jæchoveñat that everything started from water.--Agathe Keyrouh (talk) 18:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)Agathe Keyrouh



The dessert
The 'Khatandako'is a traditional dessert, a base of orange, raisin, strawberry, kiwi, banana and almond. TheJæchoveñat picked fruit as ingredients because they see them as pure foods. Orange is a main ingredients as it produces juice that is like water. that orange will represent the water, it will be packed fruits that represent his creations and finally it will be covered with a slice of orange to remind the Jæchoveñat that water, their god, saved them from thunder and wraped and destroyed it to save them.--Agathe Keyrouh (talk) 19:32, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Agathe Keyrouh



The Letters
The Jæchoveñat have a tricky language. Every symbol has its proper sound. But after, the Jæchoveñat felt like they had to give to every single sound and symbol a personalized name. And this is how the language was created.

Andrea Sawaya (talk) 16:55, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Peter Younan (talk) 20:21, 14 January 2016 (UTC)



Andrea Sawaya (talk) 16:04, 13 January 2016 (UTC) -Peter Younan (talk) 16:29, 13 January 2016 (UTC)



Andrea Sawaya (talk) 16:10, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Peter Younan (talk) 16:29, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Basic communication words
hi:Fuo bye:Fua Enjoy your meal:Govae vath Water:VAGOJ Thunder:khea Please:Jeago How are you:Fuva vete Pinky toe:Fufu

Dave Khoury (talk) 16:37, 14 January 2016 Raymond Younan (talk) 16:51, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Body language


Raymond Younan (talk) 21:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Laws
It is forbidden in Jæchoveñe to hide the Pinky Toe, it's like being ashamed of it, painting the pinky toe's nail is also a big thing not to do, it's insulting the Pinky Toe. In addition anyone not respecting the dress code will be strongly punished. Anyone who doesn't know how to swim after the age of 5, his parents will be punished for not caring enough about their son's religion and future. Any child riding a horse on his on before the age of 15 will be forbidden of education for a week. Furthermore any person riding a horse without a horse licence will be punished by working extra hours for free. Criminals are punished by locking them in their house for at least 2months. --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 05:03, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou Elias --Joanne Challita (talk) 05:18, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Joanne Challita --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:15, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Routine
At the beginning of the day, the first thing the Jæchoveñat do is go swimming, the kids from 4 to 12 swim in rivers, the teenagers, adults and elderly people (from 13 to 59) swim in the sea. Older people that are 60 and above are allowed to swim in the sea too, if they are still able too. Any person with medical issues that won't let him swim, is forgiven by the Lord. The whole point of this is to wash the Pinky Toe and for religious causes also. If in any case, the person does not have legs, he washes his hands, if in also a very rare case the person has no hands and no feet he washes his right ear. Back to their house, they have breakfast, rest a bit go out, go to work, or go to school. They come back, have dinner and then sleep. --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 05:04, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou EliasJoanne Challita (talk) 05:15, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Joanne Challita --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:16, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Transportation
The Jæchoveñat usually ride horses, to separate between the poor and the rich, they check the horse's rug, if it's blue the person is rich of it's white, black or any other colour the person is poor. To obtain a horse license, the person has to be able to control his horse, respect the signs, and be 15 or older. --Chiara Abou Elias (talk) 05:05, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Chiara Abou Elias --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Joanne Challita (talk) 05:20, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Joanne Challita--Yara Hankash (talk) 19:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Professions
Each Jæchoveñat, after graduating from school, is forced to choose between these 5principal jobs: Scientist, Doctor, Teacher, Architect or LifeGuard which is one of the most important jobs. After completing their work hours each day, they are free to choose the activity tat they like, such as performing arts, cooking, planting etc... --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:33, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

It's condition
The president has to be between 22 and 35 due to their youth potential and plans. The president has to be very religious The president can either be a girl or a boy (if they boy is elected a year, the next year it should be a girl) --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:33, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

The competition
After running for president, the Jæchoveñat proceed to the voting procedure choosing the best 5, the 5 then compete in a swimming competition, the first two will compete against each other in a brain test, the one that wins will be elected president for as long as he or she wishes to. If the Jæchoveñat have any serious complaints about the president, the president is obligated to resign. In very rare cases, if the president does not accept to resign, he will be locked like a criminal in his house for half a year. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Benefits of being president of Jæchoveñe
Only the president of Jæchoveñe has an aqua blue horse rug. Only he, judge the criminal. Only he can fire a man from his job. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Family
Family is very important in Jæchoveñe, every first week of the month is family week, they do every thing in family. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:51, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Birth
Every day, a child is born, so is a Jæchoveñat. While giving birth, the mom is crowned by her husband with a crown which was made by the husband himself decorated with sea shells, to show her his affection, that she crowned his life, she's his queen and the child is their little prince or princesse. Sea Shells are in respect of Religion. If the husband is not present, the doctor crowns the wife. At the arrival of the new born baby to his house, the grandparents (if not here the parents) wash the baby's pinky toe in cold water. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:51, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Death
After the person's death, he's cleaned and forgiven for all his sins by washing him with water. He's then buried into the land next to a fountain. Fountain symbolise life, life and death are opposites. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:51, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

Jæchoveñe's Arts
The jæchoveñat paint on beach rocks with many significant colours. Blue which is the color of the sea that represents our God. White for purity, and Grey, to always remind the Jæchoveñat that there's someone else watching them wanting them to go down. Christy Matta (talk) 17:22, 14 January 2016 (UTC)



The blue color's origin
To extract colors for the Jaechoveñat, three people, called vagofu represent the three moons of voti spes. They are the only ones allowed to extract blue. For that, they start their mission in the mountains. Picking the 'Crocus sativus votispesianus' is a hard work. Ater that, they travel a long way to the sea. During their way, the flowers will be dried then grinded till the moment they will arrive to the sea. The only discovered way to have the blue color is to mix the grinded flower with the water of the sea. In a hot weather, the flower will diffuse its pigments in the water and give the blue color it contained. The 3 vagofu only repeat this mixture when they need to pray, or to do some arts or activities. It's a very hard work to have this color, so the Jaechoveñat take care of their consumption of this goddess color.

Andrea Sawaya (talk) 19:53, 14 January 2016 (UTC) Peter Younan (talk) 20:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Music
The Jæchoveñat are forbidden to listen to music, since the sound of the waves is the only thing they worship. Nothing's better than the voice and sound of God. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Dance
The Jæchoveñat have one particular traditional dance that informs us about the creation of their religion. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi --Yara Hankash (talk) 19:21, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Yara Hankash

Houses
Houses are made of wood and only wood, sure wood let the rain penetrate into the selling but what's better than being blessed by God all night. --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Gaelle Hamandi

The Flag
The Jæchoveñe flag is pretty obvious, it represents such as everything else the creation of it's religion. The blue waves down are when The Water hugged it's creation (The Mountains, The Greens). --Gaëlle Hamandi (talk) 15:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Peter Younan (talk) 22:02, 15 January 2016 (UTC)