Oh, then you really are European...sorry. It's hard to tell, when so many people just stare at me blankly over asking about that. [ Which, again, he's assuming someone is European again, but anyway. Tama straightens up his posture a little bit, sliding his glasses back down on to his face like this will somehow enhance the explanation. It won't, but. ] Hitobashira is when you bury someone alive, to serve as a pillar for something- like a new project, or a new building, or sometimes even just to appease the gods and increase your standing.

[ He gestures, pointing upward a little and shaking his hand I can't just write 'the Alphinaud point' but I want to I'm sorry. ] It's certainly not practiced anymo- uh, well. It's not practiced anymore as of when we come from. But people will still stake down effigies and such as a symbol of that, when they build crucial structures near water.