Kinship
Familial relationship extended past the human — the recognition that the other beings of a place are relatives rather than resources or scenery.
The word is chosen deliberately over stewardship of nature or care for the environment, both of which keep the human on one side and everything else on the other. Kinship says the relation is already family: the creatures, the waters, the forests, and the soil of a place are part of the same ØNE Body, and a person is a member of that body rather than its manager. All our relations is the phrase many peoples already use, and the canon takes it as given rather than as metaphor.
It is load-bearing because it changes what consent and Right Relationship have to cover. If the other beings are relatives, then decisions that affect them are decisions taken about family who are not at the table — which is exactly why a community body seats Living Systems Member beside the seat for future generations and the seat for the Whole. Without kinship the seat is a gesture; with it, the seat is the minimum a family owes an absent member. The Playbook carries the same claim as a Play: honour inter-species relationship, with Reciprocity and Right Relationship as its Patterns.
In play, kinship is mostly attention. Learn the names of what lives where you live. Notice what is arriving and what has stopped arriving. Take what is needed and not more. Give something back to the system that fed you, which is what Compost does literally. At the table, let someone speak for the land when the Circle is deciding something that touches it, and let that voice be able to say no.
The discipline that keeps kinship from sentimentality is that families are honest with each other. Relatives kill and are killed, eat and are eaten, compete and depend. Kinship does not deny the eating; it denies the pretence that the eaten are nothing. Nutrition held as communion is this same claim said at a meal.
Also called: All Our Relations · All Our Relatives · Animal-Kinship Stands on: InterExistence · Right Relationship · ØNE Body Opens onto: Reverence · Living Systems Member · Inter-Kingdom Relationship · Reciprocity In play: table · Home · beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon, Pillar VI table · The LIØNSBERG Playbook, Play — Honor Inter-Species Relationship · The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language, Root And Trunk (All Our Relations) · lionsberg.wiki: Pillar VI — Sacred Ecology and Living Systems Open: No canon page stands at Kinship. The Playbook Play invokes Patterns (Living Systems Member, All Our Relatives) that have no pages behind them.