Cultures

[Sardauker-Kirov]

Harkonnen look a bit like crazy germans or russians.

Or some other race that loves war... Hmmmm the Japanese. the mongols. Swedish..... :)

[nampigai]

I don't know where you have the idea about Atreides originating from the US from? the fact is they originate from greece and that IS a fact. As for the Corrinos I don't know- I think the Harkonnen originates from Byzantium or Russia but I don't know for shure about that, that's just my theory.

[exatreide]

ottoman=harkonnen..........

[nampigai]

where did you hear that ex?

[exatreide]

it just makes sense. if you know about ottoman history..

[nampigai]

hmmm I just read somewhere that they were byzantian or russian

[Alexander_Ordos]

Well Ex In House Corrino they do say about Atres but that they'r from Greece hmmm.... don't want to argue for SciFi anyway which Otoman do you mean? The ones who threated Europe? :-/

[exatreide]

Yes the ottoman empire the ruthless turks. They had all of northern africa,iraq, what today is israel, and iran, they also streched up to poland,austria and such since they controled the balkens. They were ruthless. After the fall of constinople the otts had 60,000 prisinors they excuted them all. the last of which died 18 years after the battle. They Were Ruthless...kinda like the harks....

[Sardauker-Kirov]

Weird.... The Harkonnen doesnt look like them in appearance.  ;D

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Harkonnen are German ;D

German have fair hair and have Harkonnen names

[The_Cheat_Lord]

Fremen are arab like. They talk about Kitab Al-Ibar. Living in an Arab country at the moment. 'Kitab' means book. 'Al-'=the. Ibar  ???

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Yes. And you heard about National Gheographic discovery? They found Afghan woman that was photograph by them years ago. Sharbat. And her daughter is name Alia.

[The_Cheat_Lord]

AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! She has brought to life an abomination!

[Sardauker-Kirov]

Although, I think the Harkonnen music sounds a bit arabian. Mixed with Hardcore music ;D

Well, thats my opinion then.

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

This is Dune music, so if you hear some arabian stuff, it shoudn`t be strange. Only this one - Rautha - seems to be arabic name

[Sardauker-Kirov]

The Atreides or ordos music doesn't seem to be Arabic.  

Only the Harkonnen has. Maybe they are related to the Turks after all. :)

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

In Harks music is little theme from Lynch Dune movie.

[Alexander_Ordos]

Hmmm then - Harkonnen - Russian-German-Ottoman mix :-/

But the most interesting question'd be:

Who are Moritani?

[TMA_1]

lol goodness. Not all harkonnens have blonde hair.  THats just from the movie. In fact in the books the baron has red hair. Plus it doesnt matter what they look like. by this time in the future races would have mixed by now anyway. THe harkonnens are not like other people.  the ottoman empire wasnt just warlike but  were fluent in art and science. They were very cultured people. If anything the harkonnen people are like the americans. and I have  to live in america! evil place.lol

House Moritani is the same as any other house. They have no racial differences. THe only time it really describes racial characteristics is when it talks about paul and leto having olive skin and black hair.

[TMA_1]

THe harkonnen are technological people that are low on culture. you can see that when a people depend on rough technology and industry thats what happens. look at america. sure there is   art but it is bland compared to other ages in our history. I   like to think that the harkonnen world looks like currisont in episode one and certain parts of the other starwars movies when they show the empire has control of it. I think Giedi prime has a sort of technological beauty to it. city wise.

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Yes, Giedi has. Watches "Battlefield earth? Te Psyklop`s planet (or something like that) looked a lot as Giedi Prime.

And you said that not every Harkonnen has fair hair...not every German too...only me. It wasn`t very serious post.

[Alexander_Ordos]

So Gunseng is German? - My Grandmother lives in Germany  :) I just don't know, when someone talks about Moritani I imagine them like err some long haired barbarians ( That episode from HH on Ginaz - thay have females in their army...)

Now another quite interesting question on cultures:

Who are the Tleilaxu? - Alliens or Mutants???

[TMA_1]

There are no aliens in the dune universe. At least from what I see. Just mutated or force-evolved human beings.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Harkonnens are germans from 1933 ;D

[Inhuien]

Hi Chaps ;D

I've been reading a lot of the posts on this board over the last few days regarding Aliens, I agree that there are no super powered aliens that have designs on taking over the Empire but everyone seems to have forgotten about the Futers (Spelling) that are mentioned in the last 2 books. If my memory of the subget is correct they were encoutered by some of those that scattered after the fall of Leto II.