03-10-2003, 09:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2003, 09:43 PM by Occhidiangela.)
I was not asking you, (I was baiting Atomic KitKat) but thanks for the exposition anyway. My reply had been to his post that started:
Just remembered something
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If memory serves, Polynesians are among the few who actually had female leaders on a consistent basis. Maybe THEY are the ones who should be applauded as models of the modern feminine status.
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Are you sure that the 'Mana' used in RPG fantasy games comes from the Polynesian word root, and not from an Indian/Indo European word root? For some reason, I had thought that Mana in the RPG's came from either a Hindu or Bhuddist term or phrase. I might be thinking about some other term, caffeine level low at the moment.
My Websters 9th Collegiate has only two entries, though, a rather convoluted 'Melanesian related to Hawaiian and Maori,' initial English usage ~1843.
1. Power of elemental forces of nature embodied in an object or person (Like an Elemental Druid!)
2. moral authority, or prestige (Akin to having "big or powerful medicine" for Plains Indian)
In re tatoos, IIRC my nautical heritage, the habit of tatooing themselves spread rapidly among sailors who had visited the South Pacific. The peoples of many of the various Island families indulged. What I don't recall is whether or not that is where it started. I really ought to know this, given my years at sea . . . one of my books at home spells out how the whalers were some of the original American sailors to sport tatoos.
And as for Mike Tyson's Mayan tatoo, well, that malapropism is about par for the course for the world's finest examples inane public expression. Maybe Mr. Lennox Lewis knocked a few more parts loose than we had previously suspected . . .
Just remembered something
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If memory serves, Polynesians are among the few who actually had female leaders on a consistent basis. Maybe THEY are the ones who should be applauded as models of the modern feminine status.
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Are you sure that the 'Mana' used in RPG fantasy games comes from the Polynesian word root, and not from an Indian/Indo European word root? For some reason, I had thought that Mana in the RPG's came from either a Hindu or Bhuddist term or phrase. I might be thinking about some other term, caffeine level low at the moment.
My Websters 9th Collegiate has only two entries, though, a rather convoluted 'Melanesian related to Hawaiian and Maori,' initial English usage ~1843.
1. Power of elemental forces of nature embodied in an object or person (Like an Elemental Druid!)
2. moral authority, or prestige (Akin to having "big or powerful medicine" for Plains Indian)
In re tatoos, IIRC my nautical heritage, the habit of tatooing themselves spread rapidly among sailors who had visited the South Pacific. The peoples of many of the various Island families indulged. What I don't recall is whether or not that is where it started. I really ought to know this, given my years at sea . . . one of my books at home spells out how the whalers were some of the original American sailors to sport tatoos.
And as for Mike Tyson's Mayan tatoo, well, that malapropism is about par for the course for the world's finest examples inane public expression. Maybe Mr. Lennox Lewis knocked a few more parts loose than we had previously suspected . . .
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete