Mag is based in geel right? What if the tribes arent geela dhaqato and by others means do they feed themsleves. Mag system is a true indication of wealth rather than population size. One man can own thousands of camel. But then again isaaq arent known as beera falato like koonfuris so in theyre case it would actually be an indication of population.
No Mag according to what my elder said is all males born to the clan are registered upon birth, even as a baby that's only if their 'male' and it's passed to the elder of that clan to record based on family units. It's actually indicative of population size and also wealth size. It's both. It's done by both farmers and nomads because their all 'tribe' based so they record it as 'mag' it's basically insurance to cover a person if he breaks the law(xeer) that he pay compensation so this forces all 'family' units and 'reero' to gather up their reero along 'lineage' line and if their numerous enough and wealthy enough they become 'mag paying' if their not they then look for their relatives and ask to join their 'mag' and they become 'one mag paying community' to cover the insurance of their males.
Hence once you know the 'mag' of each clan, you can figure out what their wealth/population is and if their is many mag paying clans inside that over-all clan, it indicates a very large tribe in comparison to another clan who only has a few mag paying. For example my bah dubays aint the same size as say Isaaq because they have more mag paying clans then me where I only have 1. Eventually when my two lineages become numerous enough they will 'diverge' as they are independent enough to cover their own insurance in somalia. Hence 'magac' uun baan wadaagayna but taladeenu mid ma aha waa noo gaar markasi because we cover ourselves. Why i need to ask u shit weeye. However if I share my mag along say cisman mahmud level, then I cant have 'talo gaar ah' I have to 'talo wadaag' with all the other mag paying constituents.
Lakin at dhulbahante level they are pretty similar in size due to their mag payin clans.
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