Visenga

The **Kingdom of Visenga** is a large island to the east of the Wannaenid Empire and Baido, and northwest of Hila, Dazara, and Daleskarnia.

The capital of Visenga is Bukorari.

## History

Visenga was settled during the Second Age. Like many other civilisations, many technologies in ancient Visenga were learned from Daizhouvian sailors and merchants.

At some point, the Visengans converted to Buddhism and developed their own variant. The Buddhist faith practiced in Visenga had similar features as that in Daizhou and Pinoguni, but was heavily based on local culture.

Visenga repelled the Aspuruk aliens using cannon harpoons, whose metal was discovered to be tough enough to tear down the enemy's spacecraft. After a brief conquest of the whole island kingdom, the Tuksharans were repelled by armies of warrior monks.

Visenga was the refuge of many Wonaos and some Bujanski when their country fell to Wannaenid rule. Like their counterparts in Rukania, they took up training to fortify their new home and prepare for the day they returned to their homeland.

## Features

Visenga is a land of mist-shrouded mountain forests. At the center or east of the great island is a large hibiscus tree, known as Rangaras ("Herald of the Sun").

The Visengans live in tall castle-cities of stone and wood.

Many Visengans use great eagles to fly across the land, and they ride on deer and horses. The large eagles used as flying steeds in Visenga are known as puagil, related to the pouakai of Hiriwa.

## Government

The ruler of Visenga is a high king who is locally known as an "Emperor", imitating the Daizhouvians of the west. Below him are various lords and governors, who live and govern in customary castles.

The Visengan monarchy was influenced by its indigenous traditions applied with Buddhist teachings.

## Religion

Many Visengans, especially along the western coast, are Buddhists; until Buddhism is the state religion of Visenga, long before the Tuksharan invasion of the country. Visengan Buddhism mixes faint traces of its original Prisapuran elements with its native Mamaovian traditions, which include making combat more necessary for self defence and the abandonment of clan warfare in favour of a united confederate monarchy.

There are pagodas and stupas seen in the western cities.

One popular god in Visengan Buddhism is Kangura or Karura, the king of all puagil eagles and birds. He is supposedly related to Garuda, the eagle mount of Lord Vishnu. Karura is the patron of the King of Visenga.

Some Visengan Buddhist temples had "warrior monks", which are more like militias devoted to the Buddha and the defense of the kingdom.

* Ranggirid - king of heaven
* Puvana - queen of the earth
* Karura - eagle god, king of the birds, protector of the king
* Vwetova - the twenty-six gods of the constellations, seasons, time, and the months.
* Matamatad - a star cluster venerated as the gods of the new year, three sisters and four brothers. More often, this refers to Matarad, the eldest brother, as the god of the month of June and lord of the Vwetova.

## Language

### Key:

* c - "dj"
* ñ - ng

### Wordlist

* Buida - the Buddha
* -canga - -ness, -dom
	+ archaic: -tjanga, -tjenga
* druma, tariuma - dharma
* drunocanga - following and practicing the dharma, justice, good behaviour
* gla - red
	+ archaic: kula
* hina, hjana - black
* ina - to invite, to greet
	+ archaic: ienak
* iudwui - warrior monk, crusader
	+ Sanskrit: yuddhi, "related to war"
* kaja, koja - white
	+ archaic: keja
* kevwai, kevai - yellow, dye oil
* kjo - light colour, glow
* koma - dark colour, shadow
* mata - eye
* matu, mjotu - island
	+ archaic: motu, mosu, motsu
* minua - small
* Namu Budiaia - Namo Buddhaya
* nangid, nañit - rain
	+ archaic: roangit
* nucia - peninsula, cliff
	+ formerly "a distant island"
* nganua, ngatau - a god
	+ archaic: ngatua
* ngoi - big, great
	+ archaic: nuwoi
* ngoipurangkil - emperor
* omava - green
* pango, pangau - dark blue, black, sea
* pavu - land
	+ archaic: paba
* pōnoi, pojoi - "dwells at night", a ghost
* porau, parau, pamau - blue
* pōri, pōnori, pōroi - night
	+ archaic: bonoi
* puagil, poagil - a great eagle tamed as a flying mount; (poetic) a king, a hero
	+ The northern relative of the pouakai of Hiriwa, and likewise also a sacred bird.
* puloi - large island, province
* purangkil - eagle king, holy king; King of Visenga.
* puvau - the ground, earth
	+ archaic: paba
* puvautvowad - earthquake
* ra, rang - the sun
* racanga - daylight
* ragid - the sky, heaven
	+ archaic: roangit
* rakil, -kil - king
	+ archaic: arakil
* rakilcanga - monarchy, authority
* rakkil, raukil - sun king
* sira - moon
	+ archaic: masira
* tiwa - a high god, a star god, a deva, a great star
	+ Sanskrit: deva > diwa
* varai - daylight
	+ archaic: vareja
* vwetocanga - the night sky, the realm of stars; outer space
* vwetokil - star king
* vwetova - star god, any of the 26 stellar gods of the months.
	+ archaic: fetung diwa
* vwetu, vweto - star
	+ archaic: fetung

## Trivia

* Visenga was inspired by Fusang and Penglai, legendary locations in Chinese mythology. He (being Chinese himself) played with those myths by imagining if they were Polynesian.
	+ Like Fusang, Visenga is also Buddhist.
	+ Additional elements of its society were influenced by Hindu kingdoms in Indonesia and mediaeval Japan, as examples of cultures influenced by Buddhism.
	+ Just as the Visengans worshipped Garuda as Karura, Garuda is also venerated among Indonesian Hindus and Chinese Buddhists.
* The author based the Visengan language on Maori, Tagalog, Malay, and other Austronesian languages.

## See also

* Hiriwa
* Iozae