a gathering

Containing abundance

‘Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars.’
Ursula Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986)

Gathering as a companion to hunting…

We notice, we gather and we contain the abundance.

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gather
transitive verb

to bring together, to collect
to pick or harvest
to summon up
to bring parts of a whole closer 
to reach a conclusion through intuition, to know from a different source
to assemble in sequence as a book 

From: Old English gadrian, gædrian “unite, agree, assemble; gather, collect, store up” (transitive and intransitive), used of flowers, thoughts, person.

See also: woolgathering, 1550s, “indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking,” traditionally from the literal meaning “gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.,” as an activity that necessitates much wandering to little purpose.

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