NA great prophet problem

mardonius

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There is a civ4 unit used in mods which was originally offered as a great prophet, but has been called shaman or used as hunter or scout in different civ4 mods. It has been available for download here for more than a decade. He was made from a Roman velite unit, which in Republican Rome wore a wolfskin complete with the wolf's head and snout atop his head. The NA unit keeps the same wolfskin.
The problem is that, in a lot of tribes, especially in the US Southwest, wearing the skin of a wolf or a big coyote is very involved with the Native American witchcraft. Especially for Navajo where it would be equivalent to saying you're a skinwalker (a shapeshifter who transforms himself into an animal predator animal to roam the reservation at night and do both physical and spiritual evil to his neighbors). A lot of modern Indians who live in the different 4 corners reservations take this sort of thing very seriously and live in fear of witches and skinwalkers.
 
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