"all about a tribe/family or whatever proclaiming its importance"
... but maybe not just a statement of how important they were but also an attempt to suggest it really needed to be that long to accommodate ancestors stretching back many generations, thus emphasizing the ancientness of their right to the land or the legitimacy of the ruling elite?
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