Monday, November 17, 2008

bored,so i decided to retype out excerpts from Star Wars books about Mandalorians.all excerpts are from Mandalorians:Identity and Language or Mandalorians:Identity and Its Influence on Genome,published by the Galactic Institute Of Anthropology.

-In Mandalorian lore,the color blue represents reliability;green,duty;gold,vengeance;
black,justice;gray,mourning a lost love;and red,honoring a father.

-In five millennia,the Mandalorians fought with and against a thousand armies on a thousand worlds.They learned to speak as many languages and absorbed weapons technology and tactics from every war.And yet,despite the overwhelming influence of alien cultures,and the absence of a true home world and even species,their own language not only survived but changed little; their way of life and their philosophy remained untouched,and their ideals and sense of family,of identity,of nation,were only strengthened.Armor does not make a Mandalorian.The armor is simply a manifestation of an impenetrable, unassailable heart.

-Mandalorians are surprisingly unconcerned with biological lineage.Their definition of offspring or parent is more by relationship than birth:adoption is extremely common,and it's not unusual for soldiers to take war orphans as their sons or daughters if they impress them with their aggression and tenacity.They also seem tolerant of marital infidelity during long seperations,as long as any child resulting from it is raised by them.Mandalorians define themselves by culture-loyalty,strong self-identity,emphasis on physical endurance and discipline-that causes some ethnic groups such as those of Concord Dawn in particular to gravitate toward Mandalorian communities,thereby reinforcing a common set of genes derived from a wide range of populations.The instinct to be a protective parent is especially dominant.They have accidentally bred a family-oriented warrior population,and continue to reinforce it by absorbing like-minded individuals and groups.

-The Mandalorian language has more terms of insults than any of the more widely spoken galactic tongues.But whereas most species choose insults that are based on parentage or appearance,the majority of Mandalorian pejoratives are concerned with cowardice,stupidity,laziness,dull conversation,or a lack of hygiene.It reveals the preoccupations of a nomadic warrior culture where bloodline matters less than personal qualities,faces are largely masked,and a clean,efficient camp is crucial to survival.

that's all.now let's go to to personal stuff(adapted from Republic Commando and LotF).

What's a hut'uun?A coward.Physical coward,moral coward,any kind of scum without the spine to stand their ground or do the right thing.We don't have a word for hero.Being prepared to die for your family and friends,or what you hold dear,is a basic requirement for a Mando,so its's not worth a separate word.It's only cowards we had to find a special name for.

You have to know the limits of your physical and mental endurance,so you can recognize them and pass beyond them.This is why i will push you beyond any suffering you can imagine.You will not give up and die like lesser men;you will not crack up like lesser men;you will not lose heart in the direst circumstances like lesser men.You will carry on beyond your imagined limits.And you will be the last men standing,when the weaklings have opted to do the easy thing and die.

When you can no longer know what your nation or your government stands for,or even where it is,you need a set of beliefs you can carry with you and cling to.You need a core in your heart that will never change.

The Resol'nare-the six tenets of Mando culture

Ba'jur bal beskar'gam,
Ara'nov,aliit,
Mando'a bal Mand'alor-
An vencuyan mhi.

Education and armor,
Self-defence,our tribe,
Our language and our leader-
All help us survive.

There are two reasons why we have to wear armor.One is so that we don't get killed too easily.The other is so that we all look Mandalorian,however different we may be from our brothers and sisters.

Cob'ika sincerely hopes that you gain a better understanding of Mandalorians through this post(even though it is long and tedious).He wishes to end off with this sentence "Family is more than Bloodline."

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