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Post by RandallBoggs on May 4, 2005 16:51:48 GMT -5
I have honestly considered doing Randall's Return's PREquel about Randall in exile. But I need a little help.
Say Pitbulllady, since you seem to know allot in this area, what about Louisiana can you tell me?
Any like...legends or myths that have gone around? I could use them to make the game more fruitful...
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Post by lizardgirl on May 5, 2005 10:56:51 GMT -5
Well, since I know next to nothing about Louisiana, I can't really help you out here. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 11:04:57 GMT -5
I'm surprised Pitbulllady didn't reply to this already....
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Post by lizardgirl on May 5, 2005 11:42:01 GMT -5
I don't think she's been on. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 11:43:37 GMT -5
She was when I first put it on. It was sitting their in Newest Post thing at the bottom. Surely she should have noticed it.....
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 13:41:52 GMT -5
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Post by pitbulllady on May 5, 2005 16:14:21 GMT -5
Remember a while back on the old board, I posted about the "LeTeche"(also spelled "LeTiche"), a "Romeo and Julliette"-style legend from south Louisiana which is still sometimes spoken of among the Cajuns and Houmas Indians? They were supposed to be a tribe of long-tailed, reptilian people, one of many such tribes, according to numerous Native American legends. They had three fingers and toes on each hand and foot, and could use their long tails like an extra arm. They were at odds with the Houmas/Chittimacha tribe over hunting grounds, etc. One of their young warriors, though, fell in love with a Houmas maiden, and they would meet secretly deep in the bayou night after night for a "rendevous". However, her two brothers found out that their sister was sneaking out at night and paddling down the bayou in a dugout, so one night they decided to follow her. In doing so, they discovered her dirty little secret and decided to do something about before she brought shame to the entire tribe. They found out on which nights she and her reptilian lover would meet, and on that night, one brother plotted to give the girl extra work around the home, to occupy her long enough for the other to lay an ambush for her beau. That brother waited in hiding, arrow at the ready, for the LeTeche warrior to show up, and soon enough, he did. Only instead of his human sweetheart, he was met by her brother, who sent an arrow straight through his heart. The dying LeTeche fell into the waters of the bayou, just as the Indian maiden came to the spot to meet up with him, having finished her work. She arrived in time to see his body fall into the dark waters, and in her anguish, she threw herself into the water after him, where she drowned. The Maker Spirit was so upset by the treachery of the ambush that he forbade the Houmas from ever hunting or fishing there ever again, and He twisted the once-straight course of the bayou into a writhing, serpentine one-now known as Bayou LeTeche. Some of the older Cajuns still speak of the LeTeche legend, mainly to scare little kids and tourists, but a few of them will swear that they have glimpsed upright, scaly beings peering at them over the bushes while out hunting or trapping, and to have seen odd-looking, large three-toed footprints.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 16:21:33 GMT -5
Thank you for coming ^_^ Anything else?
Interesting....I think I may work this in. Chittimacha is the race of reptiles right? Do they still live in the swamps at all? I think I have a temple set I could use...
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Post by pitbulllady on May 5, 2005 16:31:01 GMT -5
No, the Chittimacha/Houmas(the two tribes merged long ago)are a Native American group who are native to southern Louisiana. The LeTeche were the reptilian tribe of legend(?). The Chittimachas still exist today, most of them living on a reservation near the town of Houmas, and make a living running gambling casinos and c o c k-fighting pits(this is still legal in Louisiana and New Mexico, by the way) and selling exquisite hand-woven baskets and reed jewelry and dolls. They are part of the Choctaw Nation. They never had any elaborate temples, other than earthen mounds, since the soggy ground of this area would not support large heavy structures, and floods are always a major concern, even now.
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 16:32:33 GMT -5
Oh ok I get ^_^
Hmm.....well I guess I could add it in....are they...."well known"? As, do they know everything about these tribes?
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Post by pitbulllady on May 5, 2005 17:12:57 GMT -5
Well, no-the Houmas aren't that well-known, if you're comparing them to say, the Cherokee or Lakota or Seminoles. Louisiana never really had many native tribes to begin with. I guess that pretty much everything that needs to be knows IS known about them. They pretty much live like anyone else in that part of the country does, but since Native American tribes are allowed to make their living from gambling casinos, even in states where it is illegal(they are except by a Federal Act), this is what they do. I know they own one of the Harrah's Casinos in New Orleans and several rooster-fighting pits in the south of Louisiana.
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 17:20:45 GMT -5
Hmm.... I'm going for some mystical stuff here like umm...well....like you said, the tribe thing. That got me thinking of an abadoned temple that's hidden in Lousiana and can only be found by one "familiar" with the LeTeche, hence Randall. Makes the game more intresting. Well....when I count out the Insanity Meter and Dark Meter...
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Post by pitbulllady on May 5, 2005 19:20:41 GMT -5
Problem is, ONE-the ground would not have supported any large, heavy structures; they would simply have sunk. Even today, with modern flood control and water diversion, saturated ground presents a whole slew of problems for architechts and city planners in southern Louisiana. The early Native Americans simply did not have such measures, so they limited their own structures to things that were simple, lightweight, and portable. Problem TWO, is WHAT would a temple be built of? There are no large stones or quarries of any sort in southern Louisiana; the ground is flat and very marshy, dark alluvial soil. The only building material native to the area is wood, and most wood, of course, rots very quickly in a hot, damp climate. Now, CYPRESS wood is very durable, but also so hard that it was nearly impossible for the early Natives to build out of it, since they had to lash poles together with strips of animal skins, and THOSE would rot pretty quick. Any temple would have been very small and would not have lasted long at all, totally unlike the grand ones of Latin America. You have to realize, that in Mexico, Central and South America, the area is volcanic, so large rocks are common, and the ground is much less saturated with water, so it supports large heavy things better.
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 5, 2005 19:22:56 GMT -5
Hmm.... I'll handle that heh heh heh. Two worlds have it's....shall we say...."advantages".
Children's doors aren't the only way into the Monster World...there are....ancient ones ^_^
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Post by pitbulllady on May 5, 2005 21:37:12 GMT -5
Sounds like I'm not the only one who's read a few of Clive Barker's epic novels. You know that in his best work, "Imaijica", he postulated that the stone circles built by ancient races, such as Stonehenge, were actually portals into the Monster World, or a parallel universe very much like it, anyway? He said that there was a power in a spiral, or circle within a circle, to open the portal between worlds, which is why so many ancient cultures featured spirals in many of their art motifs.
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