From the primal fire where stories were first shared between mountains and fields, to the fire pits in the ancestral rooms of matrilineal villages by Lugu Lake, where the spirits of ancestors reside, to the communal bonfire pits of collective communities where “many hands gather wood”. Around the matriarchal principles centred on sharing, regeneration, love, community, reciprocity, balance, the gift economy, and sacred life ignite, different stories ignite different fires, constructing different fire-pit "houses", bright or dim, large or small, all ultimately contributing to the collective fire pit.