Life and Death in Cubonia

Today I was taken to the desolate and arid side of cubonia, which is a mazelike, empty land. This area holds a place in tribal legend: The legend of Waah. The legend of Waah holds that this land was once fruitful and filled with cube monkeys, in older and happier days, but slowly they all disappeared, and with their leaving, the land became arid and desolate. This legend encompasses the idea that there must be cube monkeys or some other observer of life in order for there to in fact, be life. In the legend, some were "dounsizt", others "went to waah", which is their rudimentary version of heaven and hell, Waah being some sort of cubonian paradise, where the cube monkey may actually surround themselves with their favorite people and things, and dounsiz being some sort of rudimentary hell, which appears to be closer to oblivion. While the cubonians believe that the spirits of Waah contacts them from time to time, once someone goes to dounsizt, they are never heard from again.

Mystical Beliefs

I should note that while “asking” is important, it is only the gesture itself that has value. All decisions are made by those of the highest castes, who often utilize mystical visions of imaginary (the dead?) spirits to invoke their will. These spirits have a number of names, common ones being “SeeEehOh”, and “visseprezident”. They will claim to have talked to various unseen forces and have been told this must be the way it is done.

I believe that the higher castes have set themselves up to be considered as godlike to the lower castes. Quite frequently, the lower castes refer to the higher castes in hushed and whispered tones, giving them the names of their gods or calling them children of the gods. Such names as "abich", "bich", "son of abich", "bassturd" and "ashole" are often used. Bich or Abich appears to be their highest god, with the others being lower in the hiearchy. Abich also appears to be a god of fertility, as he/she has many children among the upper castes. Abich is at least a double god, with female and male aspects.

Just Ask

In the rare bits of previous research I have been able to dig up for this insular breed, I had discovered that they had rudimentary language skills, but was frankly amazed at the complexity of both culture and language. While each caste of the tribe speaks a common form of cuboneese, each caste has also developed it's own personal dialect. I believe that the dialects are part of the foundation of this caste system, as it is very hard for members of each caste to understand one another, and they must somewhat depend on interpretation between castes.
The higher castes speak a dialect of cuboneese called "buzwerd". The word itself translates as "pretty nothings", and consists of nouns used as verbs, verbs used as nouns and nonsense words paired with common words. For instance, "sohlisit byin" is a pretty nothing meaning "ask". Sohlisit byin is one of 25 separate and unique phrases used to say “ask”. Asking is clearly important to these people!

First Impressions

Week 1:

I have arrived in cubonia today in order to closely study a dwindling tribe of cube monkeys in their shrinking and endangered habitat.
I have been assigned a guide by the tribe, the lovely Zena, whom they call "Reesepchuness". I am told that, loosely translated this term means both "polite guard" and "getter of things". Apparently cube monkeys operate on a caste system, or at least, a pecking order, and the "Reesepchuness" caste are low in the pecking order, taking orders from many others. However, they are esteemed as guards to the entrance to the tribal lands, possessing a polite ferocity not known in the civilized world, refusing to let any trespassers pass, sounding the alarm to large and hairy tribe members known as “Sekuretee’s” if anyone presses to pass to their hunting grounds beyond, without their consent.