Joghic Hegemony

The Joghic Hegemony was a political and cultural institution of the Joghunmal, most often defined as a cosmology based on their common descent in ethnogenesis under Gegmal and the First Animation. Joghic polities, which were ephemeral and unstable, were understood as individual acts and solutions between kinsmen within the wider Hegemony they co-habited. The role of Hegemon naturally went to the most powerful among Gegmal's progeny able to thus settle affairs in this universal household. The ordering of different clans and lineages in the Hegemony was a concern of most Joghic states that could claim the title of Hegemon, which the Malkazy Confederacy answered with the new institution of the agane, redefining communities as organs to the Hegemony as a more active and clearly defined polity. Between the otherwise politically and culturally separate Joghic groups of the Dovhyi Tableland and the Joghunmal Plain (the Dovhyi Joghs versus the Joghunghet and the Joghunqazh), the Hegemony was invoked in diplomacy, uniting the Joghic lands in terms of specific political and cultural understandings. The prominence of Hegemonic language weakened under the Malkazy as new polities were built through devotion to chohbahs and other new kinds of culture, and the Malkazy proved to be the last major state to make use of it.