Djeric culture

The Djeric people or Djerics were the inhabitants of Kentotra in what we would on our world be considered its neolithic age. There is little remaining information on the Djeric culture. Based on, spellings in the few documents pertaining to them, it seems that "djeric" was spoken as a mid position pronunciation of the International Phonetic Alphabet's "dʒ" syllable. This is suggested by some spelling it with a simple "d" sound before a "j". Others leave the "d" out entirely, which I hypothesize to be a result of change over time.

History
Little is known of the Djeric people beyond their reverence for animals, particularly a species they called The Beast. They were considered by Pan-Kentotran civilization as their direct predecessors, and it is possible that the nomadic Djerics came together to form the groundwork for the culture to come.

Cave art suggests that they believed in much the same pantheon as their successors, but with added emphasis on reverence and perhaps even minor deification of animals such as the aforementioned "Beast", which appears to be something like a pig, rat, or goat depending on the depiction.

The greatest lasting effect the Djerics have left on Kentotra is undoubtedly the distinctive Djeric Stones. The Stones are believed to be a primitive warning system used by the ancient Kentotrans to keep travelers safe from the dens of the Geons they believed to inhabit such places. They take the shape of a thin cone with a dull point worn away with care by stonemasons before being stained and carved with a single glyph to represent the kind of danger lying ahead. Upon investigation, these stones seem to have warned against sinkholes, quicksand, or otherwise unstable ground.

Fragmented myths recall the god of the earth Kotamotu lead all the Geons away to work at his forge in the planet core, which allowed the Djerics to leave their nomadic lifestyle behind.