One last thing about Magas. They built a hundred-meter tower here that belongs to all Ingush people at once, not to a specific teip like all the others. Such a beautiful unifying gesture.

Construction had to be completed within a year, according to the rules. If a teip decided to build but didn't make it, the tower would be abandoned and the clan was considered weak, unable to keep their word. That's why such cases were rare. But now imagine the responsibility for a tower for an entire people :)

There's a legend that a guy from a clan that didn't finish in time really wanted to marry a girl from a teip that was just about to build a tower. And it was clear they would refuse. So he took a job as an apprentice to the master builder with just one condition: instead of payment, he'd be allowed to install the final spire on the roof. When the moment came to put it up and the guy had already climbed onto the roof, he declared: either agreement to the wedding, or he'd just throw the spire down. There was no way out—they had to agree.