Wool on cheeks of haynas - not just a decorative element. Hyenas - telepaths and empathy that are sensitive to the biofield. Their "antenna" - is wool on cheeks. The more pigment, the higher the sensitivity.
Some individuals not sufficiently large braincase to accommodate evolved brain mind beings. By themselves, haynas smart, but as dogs or baboons. However, the haynas is a primitive collective mind. The collective unconscious, an additional external resource to whom have access to all the individuals with normal pigmentation whiskers.
This is not a true collective mind. Individuality and character is preserved, but the possibilities of each individual greatly expanded.

Do haynas have a more advanced version of the collective consciousness, when several individuals are combined into one. With a common name. Usually, this consists of a dominant personality (who "owns" the name) and 2-10 subordinates ("host" name). This is a very deep interaction, if the dominant perishes, a group of heavily out of the union. It starts with schizophrenia and other abnormalities. Even if the group is another potential leader, it takes time for him to replace the deceased. Group-identity is obtained by a much smarter human, but should pay for everything.

The lighter wool on cheeks, the stupid hayn. The possibilities of such individuals is limited. If the wool is completely white, intelligence remains at the level of the animal. A very light usually stupid, aggressive, selfish, can not have compassion.
Sometimes white whiskers - acquired property. With age, they gradually turn white. There are diseases in which lightens wool on cheeks. This is very scary - identity starts to degrade, break down. Typically, haynas prefer to die before become completely white.

This feature of the anatomy had a great influence on the culture of haynas. Black - a synonym for good, white - the symbol of bad, evil, destructive. They do not swear words, sex-related, but the word "white" is equivalent to the gross name sexual organs of human language. There are many euphemism for the concept of "white" if the haynas have to say about a neutral color. Still, these words - rough language.


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