1 - The Bear’s Gift: The Village by flavia49
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Description
4,000 B.C.E.
The village stood on a low embankment at the edge of some springs. Alpine steep peaks stood out behind rolling hills that centuries later would be covered by rows of Prosecco vineyards; to the south stretched the gloomy forests of the Po Valley. The village lay in a cluster of close villages, surrounded by placid streams, swamps and a network of cultivated fields, but every village kept its sacred medicine bundles and held its own councils of the clan chiefs.
The people of the villages had only to fight with their neighbours, the cooling weather, bad crops, wild herds changing their usual paths, floods, and sometimes strange diseases sent by an angered god but, all in all, it was a peaceful business-as-usual time. Their lives were full of risks, but life is risky, isn't it?
Sometimes a band of warriors set up for trading or raiding: a guy has to elbow his way through life, right? But no one, not even the bravest, ventured beyond the gorge bordering the Cursed Valley.
Comments (54)
Freethinker56
A fantastic scene. Beautiful animals and wonderful landscape. Excellent work!Yes life can be risky.Cheers.
VDH
Fantastic concept and marvelous realization.!!!
JeffersonAF
Great.
jayfar
Superb work Flavia.
A_Sunbeam
Love all the details - nice work!
netsuke
Wonderful village scene - the swans really caught my eye.
Richardphotos
as if I could walk right in. superb composition and use of props
DukeNukem2005
It is very good!
UteBigSmile
Very nice one dear Flavia, it's very well done (my greetings to Sandra)!
virginiese
fantastic composition and scene !
romangirl
Marvelous!
jocko500
wonderful work
Kaartijer
Great scene, well done!
icerian
This is very beautiful image.
mapps
WOW that is really complex and beautiful :-)
renecyberdoc
this time i will follow from the beginning (lol i missed quite some stories from mars)
Traumsuse
Fantastc Image, great Work***
ia-du-lin
wonderful scene, very nice image
velleman
Splendid medieval village atmosphere!
HADCANCER
Beautiful scene
KarmaSong
Wonderful Poser graphics and composition !
junge1
Great scene and interesting tale Flavia! That's the way I would have liked my history classes when I was in school!
g1tip
Excellent work ! ! !
blondeblurr
Interesting info, a story-line based this time on the recent historical past of your/or our general ancestry...