Cèsar de Quart said:Merlkir said:It really starts to sound like Conan or some other pre-historical fantasy.
Isn't that cool? If someone in the mod has literary ambitions, here's free inspiration! A world set in motion when the Turks loose control of their mighty universal empire against the cannibals!
It's like merging Latin American soap-opera with zombies. You get The Walking Dead. Now, merge pseudo-prehistorical theories, Conan and Latin Amercian soap opera, and you get... the next fantasy success!
Prepare to be as famous as Andrzej Sapkowski.
http://science-mag.aaas.org/content/300/5617/227.1.summary
Cannibalism and Prion Disease May Have Been Rampant in Ancient Humans
1. Elizabeth Pennisi
Summary
Epidemics of prion diseases--possibly spread by cannibalism--plagued prehistoric humans, a team proposes online in Science this week. Analysis of the worldwide distribution of the prion gene suggests that two gene variants have undergone "balancing selection" through exposure to toxic prions.
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Vlad Tepes committed exocannibalism in one account when he ingested the blood of captured Turks, although there's no evidence he believed he gained any tangible power from the act. Rather, he ate blood-dipped bread from a bowl as a signal of what the future held in store for the Turks
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2937187.stm
Brain legacy of ancient cannibals
The cannibal habits of ancient humans probably caused epidemics of diseases similar to CJD, claim researchers.
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/jen-paton/europe-and-its-cannibals
A spell-binding history of cannibalism in the middle ages: its use as a propaganda tool, and place in Christendom's self-image; the cannibal as a philosophical hypothetical, and a justification for colonialism; and Richard the Lionheart's fondness for "Saracen's head's all hot"
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http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/cannibalism.html
Several Christian sources of the First Crusade report instances of cannibalism. Specifically, starving crusaders were reported to have eaten their fallen Muslim opponants. Although such behavior was undoubtedly very rare, sources claim that Muslims spread terrifying rumors of crusaders "who fed very greedily on the bodies of saracens."
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This is no fantasy. You don't even have to go 2000 years earlier. Turks had been getting eaten for a very long time.
Cannibalism features in many mythologies, and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrong. Examples include the witch in Hansel and Gretel and Baba Yaga of Slavic folklore.
A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon. The story of Tantalus also parallels this. These mythologies inspired Shakespeare's cannibalism scene in Titus Andronicus.
Hindu mythology describes evil demons called "asura" or "rakshasa" that dwell in the forests and practice extreme violence including devouring their own kind, and possess many evil supernatural powers. These are however the Hindu equivalent of "demons" and do not relate to actual tribes of forest-dwelling people.[citation needed]
The Wendigo (also Windigo, Weendigo, Windago, Windiga, Witiko, Wihtikow, and numerous other variants) is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans. Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk,[39] and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo. The name is Wiindigoo in the Ojibwe language (the source of the English word),[40] Wìdjigò in the Algonquin language, and Wīhtikōw in the Cree language; the Proto-Algonquian term was *wi·nteko·wa, which probably originally meant "owl".[41]
PS: Don't make your knew found knowledge stop you from eating turkey!