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The Incredible Tool Using Octopi
Topic Started: Dec 15 2009, 11:34 AM (2,100 Views)
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I think they might have a small civilisation attitude forming small city state type organisation.

Basicly not antisocial just don't like huge numbers.

Just a possibility.
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Dec 21 2009, 09:56 PM
I agree that the "oral tradition" would probably manifest as some form of "color dance"; gestures and complex chomatophore displays, etc.
They could not only convey the story through movements and color changes, they could act it out! I'm feeling serious extraterrestrial culture resources here...
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"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Even if they relied only on written language, it could still work to record history. Just imagine them like the hebrew, they recorded things over and over again flawlessly for thousands of years.
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