Re: USAGE: Conculture Imperials, was Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 9:14 |
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--- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> If not, they'd have an unfortunately easy time
> conquering the Kassi.
> :-( Their religion says "Do not harm any
> flying animal".
There are enough flying animals that would peck
your heart or throat out if given half the
chance, that any Daine who practiced such a
belief would soon be extinct! Anyway, there's
some fine eating in a duck or a goose! To say
nothing of those great wonking thunderbirds (big
flightless monsters that crash through the
forests).
The World is dangerous! If you can't kill it,
it'll probably try killing you sometime.
Let's see: "cruacu" in general means bird or
flying animal (that could involve bats and
various flying squirrels as well); "ado" is the
chief word for blackbird, or any kind of magical
bird; "hann" is any wild fowl good for eating.
Somewheres around there was a word for 'fowl not
good to eat', 'domestic fowl' and 'predatory
bird'.
"Narack" is a bird's feather [as opposed to Daine
feathers which are "cuoyack" the long feathers,
"milyack" the short feathers, and "telyack" the
small downy feathers]. "Carman an tyellow" is the
feather comb, used to preen and straighten
someone's feathers and work out any foreign
matter ["tamack" is a comb for the hair]. "Rama"
is a bird's wing, while "tyel" is a Daine's wing.
> My Kassi are feathered, but flightless.
As are the Daine.
> > There are populations who retain different
> > colorations
>
> How did the duller colors win out? Some kind
> of ethnic variation?
>
> The Kassi are mostly red, as are most peoples
> in the Central and
> Southern regions. In the North, green tends to
> predominate.
Do they consider "colour" as skin tone or feather
colours? While Daine skin tone does vary for
region, when they speak of one's colour it is the
principal colour of their hair and feathers.
Most are black or brown; then red and yellow;
then more exotic colours like purple, green,
white, etc. Of course you get a lot striped and
mottled colouring, so it's hard to say sometimes
what colour a person is.
Padraic.
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Et ters davigaint deck y yaithes 'n el drichlend le Roy Markon;
y cestes d' ils yspoil morès y ddew chaumèz e-z-el tons l' organón.
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