Mohken
The Mohken’s or Sea Nomads of the Southwest coast of Thailand and Burma have had to adapt The Mohken have had to adapt to climate geography, and use their natural resources in their regional zones of travel partly as a result of the monsoon season every Summer and Winter, this forces their typical life at sea into a life on the land. The monsoons will blow southwest to southeast depending on the season. Once ashore the Mohken switch to land-based foraging from sea and fresh water for sustenance.
This is seen as a way of adaptation for the Mohken as they have very small tool kits in order to keep up their mobility they must keep the tool kits light. To make up for such small tool kits the Mohken are very in touch with weather patterns; what time of the year is for what either fish or foraging. Kinship is matrilineal and bilateral which allows then access for more resources, resulting from both their matrilineal and patrilineal lines. As a result of their adaptability they are excellent foragers and fishermen.
They have always been a hunter-gather society and in their very origin story which has been passed down orally through the generations has helped them retain their culture and identity to date. The Mohken are very spiritual people and have their own creation story of where they come from and how they originated. They collect symbols as a thread to tie them into the tale. For example many people are represented in the stars as are animals. The Mohken are matriarchal and Sibian in the myth is a representative of the sea and where the true land begins. Another character in the myth the turtle, who comes back to land and after laying her eggs she leaves them just as Sibian does abandoning Ken and Gaman as she casts the...
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