Maa'toi People

## The Maa'toi People

The Maa'toi, were a shonijin/shonji people of the Malta islands. I came across this article on wikipedia and thought to include a page on them. Similar to the Halstatt people, Maa'toi lived in underground buildings similar to that of the Drow people in various D&D rpg games, which has a strong culture on IMVU and probably Second Life. You can find info on the wikipedia item here. You will have to take this page also with a grain of salt theory for people who feel challenged about their views on ancient history.

The Maa'toi are the Banana slug spider people. They were either banana slug spider's as people, or they were a people transformed by spider bites, energy and possible food substance at the time. Slug spiders "spray" the air to scent prey and would attract people and would engage people with their spray in the air as a marking if they were close by to the spraying.

I have a banana slug spider in my backyard, I am aware of what those beings are doing. \*Grain Of Salt page\*. I denote the brightly colored are priests of their tribe.

## The Taa'toi People

The Taa'toi people are the same in reflect that they are related to the Maa'toi (brightly marked banana slug spiders - the males), but are both gendered at the same time, and can pick which sex they will be later on in their timeline. I found it interesting of these spiders, which are more like scorpions than spiders themselves. The webs are like that of large orb weavers but are yellow in color and made of very strong silk (I suppose its silk, it looks like fine rayon string!) They were either a people impacted by the spider's whereabouts and marking of scent , which can hurt the mentally impacted, or they were the spiders themselves as people. Some island lore states that spiders were not always spiders, nor scorpions, in a scorpion form. This is how lore of the Therian, Lucan, and Lycan began to grow.

\*Grain of salt page\*

Being a clean shaman, and dark pagan I normally greet all creatures and beings in an about my yard. It's not really my yard but we are all here for a divine, yet mysterious purpose and I like to know why. Many people will think I am nuts for talking to the spider, chicken, cat and roosters that trot by (well save for the spider I hope they are not trotting by) in and about the lands of grace here, but I like to converse from afar and respect them unless they show me otherwise and the same of people. Everything here is a fierce and yet delicate balance. How you respond is up to you.

I am not a spider fan and have warned my wraitl friends (sorta i suppose) about the ways of working as a shaman with animals and insects, which insects I do not recommend. They are the surgeons of the slain, dead, and the effects of seeing them at work can be gross, and frightening. They of course do not listen to me and many have had nightmares and they continue because our people believe we can handle anything and everything, and get manipulated. Therefore I offer a stern warning: **Leave the insects and spiders alone!** Higher ranks of vampyres and entities can sense spiders and other types of beings. This is why I said they were either impacted by the spiders or the spiders as people, similar as is reported to the drow in the rpg games. They were known to be something like the Shul'ti to our people and had a wary stance towards anything else. (Shool-tee) I believe the Shul'ti to be very ancient creole people similar to Jamaica and New Orleans.

The Maa'toi & Taa'toi people would have been about 5'5 inches tall, to 5'8 in men. They would have weighed very little and appeared very bony looking. They would have had dark to greyish skin from not bathing regularly and mostly a badly clothed or naked appearance and hair in a messed up fashion. They would have been fishermen and women living near creeks or watersheds and marshes to have a food source as well as trade, they probably also would have made and sold fishing nets. From what I have seen of the banana slug spiders, they seem to take on a disdain to mating and would not have been wanting to be in a union - not liking the effects or the relationships at all. They would have first appeared on Eurasia-1 and had an appearance to that of Siberian peoples.

The Taa'toi are equal gendered banana slug spiders, sometimes appear white in color and then change to a reddish-orange where they appear to look similar to a fall leaf. They will then change their sexual gender to male, but not be a true male due to not having the brightly colored markings of the banana slug spider. They are called sluggers because they eat the invasive species known as the banana slug, but other slugs will also work. They may be related to the Easter Island people and also be called "Shus'ti" or "Shu'ti".

They knew they were not people or human, they did hold the belief that they came from an alien world and were "uti-i" slain/chosen to be where they were. The spider form seems to be their first form, people their second, and spider form again their preferred form.

## Shu'ti

Shu'ti were a venom-ish people who would use venom expertly from wherever it came from, snakes or spiders. It is also rumored they got their venoms or serums magickally or even created them from mid-air. They were an assassin-ish tribe, that had bearing in Africa. They were rumored to have created Joodoo and Shoodoo, and other forms, and had tribes all over the caribbean as well as near Africa and some parts of Europe and UK. They were expert magickal harmful people who did what they did silent and effortlessly. Unlike the Maa'toi, and Taa'toi who did not enjoy their lives, Shu'ti got down and handled their business. They were similar in stature to the Maa'toi and Taa'toi, believed that only their race was the chosen people and that they were gods. They were hideously carnavorish, cadaverish and creepy to boot. Most of them were of Black or African Cape of Good Hope region.

In demeanor you could compare the Shu'ti to the Khajit of Skyrim (Yes I know a bad analogy!) But the Cat folk, like the Shu'ti are very dedicated in their race to do what their race does, in creature-y form and that is why I compared them. Lately, I have gone through a purposeful change of my vampyr and therian natures in which I am able to sense more things than I used too. In trading the Khajit furthers its reign, going into towns and cities and taking them over a bit at a time.