Culture Ideas


 * The iris is the soul. Death process of cutting irises out. White eyelids is a sickness according to folklore. A suddenly different eye colour means possession. Heterochromia is something to be feared/revered. - Phohebia
 * St Columba - bright green and light brown, high sheer cliffs, windmills, villages built into cliffs, gay elf game, subtropical, agricultural, winding stairs and supports
 * Angular style like Friend like me
 * Biomimicry culture, (weaver ant nest architecture tree houses)
 * Morning star goat baubles
 * False eyes hanging from trees. The evil eye. Ancestor irises protection from evil spirits. Opals look like eyes
 * Carving wooden idols over their lifetimes which are collected, smeared with the person's ashes and stored within a local temple
 * Vavali culture name
 * African stomach/arm braille mutilation
 * Tribesmen and guns
 * Black spot equivalent - fair game for anyone to kill them (boredom as motive)
 * Staring into the middle distance/thousand yard stare - rude to disturb
 * Table climbing bar game in the West
 * Mythically superior families
 * The Nuer - a cattle obsession with people named after their favourite cows. Marriage and dowries were connected to cows, they could connect to the spirits through their cows. Initiated men forbidden to milk cows. Blood let from cows which is then eaten/used as flavouring. Horn decorations for cows. Leading favourite cow around and shouting praises for kinsmen/cow. Fights over cows. Harpoon fishing. Jewellery shows qualities (endurance etc). Shallow history. Millet and Cow (Anansi Boys). Forbidden to fight with spears. True man through children. Initiation through cutting from ear to ear. Man free to drop everything and roam. Pride, deliberately deceiving strangers and foreigners. Curt but kind. Socialist tendencies (share excesses with kinsmen, true men can just come and take stuff. Others just pester you)
 * Spirit animal through labourious tasks/mutilations/treks
 * Deliberately spreading plague to natives, smallpox blankets
 * The poorest of the poor have no gender
 * Huge market festivals
 * India's caste system, like kings to the next tier down
 * Eyebrow plucking
 * embodiments as gods (Time, Passion, Life)
 * Polygamy - men exchange wives for younger ones
 * Rules for acceptable homosexuality
 * Look on wikipedia for obscure cultures
 * Rashida's clothes
 * Statues/idols are carved smaller and smaller throughout life
 * Culture where ancestors are shunned rather than revered.
 * A gypsy woman modelled after Rosine Bloch, part of Coscello's build team. Wears traditional dress, but modified for modern manual labour and ease of mobility - traditional clothing of the Sidmaer nomads, commonly referred to as tunts. They specialise in singing, music, jewellery making and trade, although recent advancements in transportation and industry has made trade unprofitable. Perhaps entire communities own a single ship and do trade from that certain ship. They are not known as fortune tellers, but rather as musicians - fortune telling belongs primarily and is most associated with the Yvinndts in the modern pyramid. The Sidmaer are often tutted at and treated roughly, but are not as despised as regular real world gypsies - although maybe yes what with the disappearance of the Mours and everybody needs someone to pick on.