Sijay Culture

The Sijay Culture is a now-extinct civilization of early Tedbears. Geographically speaking, it is believed that the Sijay Civilization held territory that spanned the southern half of the Teddy River Basin, in what is today known as South Tedbearia.

Early Sijay Culture
Historians and archaeologists divide the Sijay Civilization into two distinct periods, early and late. The reasoning for this separation is because of a major cultural shift which occurred in Sijay beardom between the two periods. The Early Sijay Culture spans from at least 540 BCE until roughly 110 BCE. The Early Sijay are known to have observed a polytheistic religion, in which the various monkey species found around the South Tedbearia region were deified. In addition to its piety towards all things simian, the stars and cosmos were also heavily revered by the Early Sijay. It is believed that outer space was seen as a sort of afterlife by the Early Sijay Culture, and countless references to space travel could be found in Early Sijay cave art.

As the Early Sijay civilization did not possess an alphabet or any forms of writing, its lorekeeping and recording of history was restricted to oral tradition and its famous cave paintings.