#north american culture

[overwatchfanskinarchive]

Cowhand Venture by jirafffee (twitter 1, 2), fanart by niyahoai (twitter)

[jinsai-ish]

New York and Vermont do this too!

Maybe other states as well but those are the only ones I can speak to. But I know Little House in the Big Woods talks about the snow and maple syrup!

We’re halfway through March, so you know what that means…. it’s the season for Cabane à sucre and some good old tire d’érable!

For those who are not familiar, in Canada, around mid-March to late April, the sap from sugar maple trees are ready to be collected. So each year, the Cabanes à sucre or Sugar shack/cabins open for the public, so everyone can enjoy folklore music, traditional dishes and many sugary treats, including de la tire d’érable or maple taffy.

Maple taffy is basically pouring hot maple syrup on snow and with a popsicle stick, you roll it and boom, you got yourself some gooey maple taffy :D

We, Canadians, do love our maple syrup 👌🏼🍁👌🏼

[sadie-shrimp]

SoCal Miku🏝️🏄‍♀️

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 52: Medievalish and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration. This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

We already did the burnings which lost their bracket, but the culture lasted a long time across a big area, and people keep suggesting it.

[quiltofstars]

The Pleiades, M45 // mr.m.looks

All over the Earth, our ancestors told wonderful stories to explain how the Pleiades came to be in the sky. For the Kiowa people of North America, it happened something like this:

Long, long ago, some young women snuck away from camp one night to dance freely beneath the stars. It wasn’t long before some bears discovered them and chased them through the wilderness. Eventually, the girls found a tall rock and climbed it. The girls begged the spirits in the rock to save them. The rock heard their cries and grew taller until it became what is today known as Devils Tower. The maidens were transformed into the stars of the Pleiades, which may be seen hanging above the tower in mid-winter.

[uldahstreetrat]

Now, I am from Turkey and I cannot speak for all Southwest Asian, North African and South Asian people out there, I can only speak of what I've spotted based on the info I have. But Radz-at-han def has some Turkish influence. The lamps on the bazaar are absolutely same with the ones in Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı). There's meyhane! A win for Turkey Iran and Balkans! Also Akyaali (ak yalı in Turkish) means white beach literally. And not to forget Kapikulu. And the npc names: i have spotted fantasty versions of some turkish names. Oh and... Karniyarik is from Turkey (means belly splitted literally bc you split the belly of the eggplant). Thavnair itself does not look like Turkey at all fauna/flora/climate wise.

Tho South Asian influence is also very prominent in Radz-at-han/Thavnair. I think there's a good amount of Mughal Empire inspo there. But I don't have enough info to talk about it. I'll leave it to South Asian folks! I also think there's Farsi inspo. (Satrap is a title of ancient Persian empire). Like I said, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong!

For Ala Mhigo, I would say it has much SWANA influence overall. Especially Levant is very visible for me. Arak being Levantine spirit for example. And Sumerian Ziggurats. Also "ala" prefix/article.

I've spotted Turkish influence ( imambayıldi being a turkish food)(ala mhigan gown having anatolian kilim motifs)(conquest war against the neighboring nations in the past)(visual inspo from eastern, southeastern and inner anatolia for example: Cappadocia, salt lake area and salt industry. Travertines next to M Tribe and Travertines in Pamukkale. Tho Turkey is not the ONLY visual inspo for the region there are many many other SWANA inspos like i said, for exp: ziggurats).

Disclaimer: No matter how much inspo they have from the real world, Ala Mhigo and Radz-at-han are fictional. The inspos overlap a lot and most of the times they're not clear-cut. And sometimes they do not reflect the real world. I only mentioned of the things I've spotted. However, South Asia, Southwest Asia and North Africa are very diverse and beautiful regions with diverse cultures, civilizations and peoples and I don't have sufficient info to talk about it all so I am sure there are many things I've missed out on Ala Mhigo and Thavnair that my fellow SWANA people and South Asian folks can point out! Also both of these fictional countries have inspirations from other cultures as well (like ala mhigan monks). After all, Turkey is only a part of the inspiration both for Ala Mhigo and Thavnair. But it made me incredibly happy to see it. And i hope the real world inspirations in this game made the others happy as well!

(linking to my original post on this convo so i dont lose it again lmao)

thank you so much for your thoughts on this anon I really adore hearing about where people have seen their own cultures within the game! I think it's so super cool and im so glad you shared with me!

[kemetic-dreams]

Bakongo spiritual protections influenced African American yard decorations. In Central Africa, Bantu-Kongo people decorated their yards and entrances to doorways with baskets and broken shiny items to protect from evil spirits and thieves.

This practice is the origin of the bottle tree in Hoodoo. Throughout the American South in African American neighborhoods, there are some houses that have bottle trees and baskets placed at entrances to doorways for spiritual protection against conjure and evil spirits.

In addition, nkisi culture influenced jar container magic. An African American man in North Carolina buried a jar under the steps with water and string in it for protection. If someone conjured him the string would turn into a snake. The man interviewed called it inkabera

[powerlineprincess]

Tangled up in ivy, decapitated by chicken wire...2024 K.E.A powerlineprincess

[wildlifetracker]

Left to right: polar bear, grizzly bear, black bear

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Cowboy Venture by Alt3r_Ego/Altered_727, fanart by bluedilute

[mapsontheweb]

Native American Culture Areas

[folkfashion]

Mardi Gras carnivaler, Mystic Medecine Man, United States of America, by Danielle C. Miles

[boiledegghole]

another attempt on the concept of salmonid traditional art

[neechees]

Do u think white ppl have such a desperate fascination for "cryptids" because of how whiteness strips people of culture & so because they dont have a culture to fall back on, they're searching for a form of it in spirits & cryptids. Is that what it is.

[war-in]

Old HotRod Pickup in New Bern, NC. It had a nice sounding motor. The guy driving it was in a hurry so I was unable to see under the hood.

[hastalavistabyebye]

Worldbuilding shouldn't be so western cultured centered. Not when there is so many incredible conceptual visions of the world around the planets. And fascinating rituals linked to them.