Are they just gods that the Native Americans worshiped? Not a mound where other Native Americans were buried? Why did they have to use a human girl to reproduce? Why couldn't they just stalk the land and take over the entire town? Are they just limited to that area? Thanks for any insight ahead of time!
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As a scary and foreign species, i would guess they might be looked at as some kind of "Gods" or mythological beings.
Not a mound where other Native Americans were buried?
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Not in this case. ....Unless they were being digested
Why did they have to use a human girl to reproduce?
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I'm thinking this was just part of the story that would make a threatened Human's decision to Destroy said Mound a little more difficult if one of that Human's family members was caught up in the Mound's activities.
Why couldn't they just stalk the land and take over the entire town?
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Being susceptible to modern weapons AND not having the same reproductive rates as other "Mound" living creatures, such as Ants or Termites, i'm thinking the story stuck with secrecy and isolation as their best protection.
Are they just limited to that area?
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there's no place like Mound
Thanks for any insight ahead of time!
My guess is that they WERE worshipped, or more like appeased. Probably bribed with offerings, maybe even human sacrifice? Perhaps the ones we saw in the film were degenerated, gone savage.
Since we don't really know what exactly they were going to do with the daughter it is hard to say why they needed her specifically, though I think it is clearly shown that she would turn into some sort of queen, not just serve as an incubator for mound walker eggs or something. My wife thinks the shower scene where she is washing off mud and blood implies she had intercourse and (along with the vomiting later on) became pregnant, I think it just meant she was menstruating and thus was "fertile" for them to change her.
The professor clearly states that mounds are found all over the world, suggesting that these creatures were once very wide spread, and I suspect the mounds were later repurposed once the walkers died out (or the presence of skeletal remains were just meals), and this mound colony in particular was probably a last remnant.
They were an all-male race, as the professor says, so that's why they needed her.
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