Lost Boat
Petra looked long,
Regarding the stranger's name,
Looked to the Black Ship crews
Gathered on the wharf
Below Volcano Never;
Embarrassed.
"I've lost the pronunciation,
How to say your name."
Petra said.
"Easy enough to happen
With a name as long,
And foreign, as mine."
The stranger said.
Petra smiled,
"Just so." she said.
The stranger looked to the crews.
"Call me Pakal,
And we need your help."
"How so?" asked Poe.
"Just to look for now,
We've lost our First Boat
And simply haven't enough
Eyes between us to find it."
Said Pakal.
"What? Like looking for a
Lost ring on a sandy beach?"
Asked Melville.
"A like. Except it may
Have been stolen."
Said Pakal.
"And what may this First Ship
Look like?" asked Ishmael.
"Just like that one."
Pakal said, and pointed to
Ichi's Long Slender Craft
Moored to the wharf.
And Ichi smiled.
DolphinWords
Notes: 14th in series, see previous...game on soon, Angels vs Rockies...an even match...win loss records alike...browsed around Polynesia awhile...had forgotten the mystery of how all those islands became occupied...and there's stone ruins here and there...and the giant stone money that look like grinding stones...round with a whole in the center...curios in Paradise...don't know but a question about convergent or cultural contacts should begin with Polynesia...brb...
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The Society archipelago is a hotspot volcanic chain consisting of ten islands and atolls.
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oh!...I didn't know Tahiti was over a 'hotspot' like Hawaii, like Yellowstone...there's a search on for a lost Volcano...well, one with a wallop of an eruption that no one can source...suspicion is a volcano blew up, and what was left submerged under the ocean...brb...oh..wait...
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Bougainville only stayed about ten days on the island, which he called "Nouvelle-Cythère ", or "New Cythera (the island of Aphrodite)",
same wiki
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fond of Wateau's Pilgrimage to Cythera...
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After Watteau’s death, his art fell out of fashion. During the French Revolution, some eighty years after the work was painted, his depictions of lavishly set pastoral escapades were associated with the old days of the monarchy and a frivolous aristocracy. This particular piece, which had entered the collection of the Louvre in 1795, was used by art students for target practice; an account by Pierre Bergeret (1782–1863) describes the drawing students throwing bread pellets at it.[5] In the early 19th century the curator at the Louvre was forced to place it in storage until 1816 in order to protect the painting from angry protesters. It was not until the 1830s that Watteau and the Rococo returned into fashion.
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Included in the party was the botanist Philibert Commerçon (who named the flower Bougainvillea) and his valet. The ship's surgeon later revealed this person as Jeanne Baré, possibly Commerçon's mistress; she would become the first woman known to circumnavigate the globe.
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hmmph...a curio!...another: Captain Cook comes along, as Tahiti was situated for his study of the transit of Venus--Aphrodite/Cythera...
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During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling across the Sun. This unusual astronomical phenomenon takes place in a pattern that repeats itself every 243 years.
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Not only would their findings help expand scientific knowledge, it would help with navigation by accurately calculating the observer's longitude. At this time, longitude was difficult to determine and not always precise.[2] A "secret" mission that followed the transit included the exploration of the South Pacific to find the legendary Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown land of the South."
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diversions!...that missing eruption/Volcano...game on/radio...kid choir singing anthem...
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Soon evidence began emerging from other sources, too. The languages from islands surrounding the crater all appeared to have common linguistic roots, suggesting they may have evolved from the same dialect many hundreds of years ago.
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story can't conclude they find it, and lists possibilities...all in the 1500s, or thereabout, a time when in Europe, and around the world, there was the unusual weather associated with Pacific volcano eruptions...
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In Sweden, crops failed and grain stores emptied. Across Europe, trees stopped growing. In China, tens of thousands of people froze to death. Months after, it snowed non-stop for 40 days below the Yangtze River (the same latitude as Northern Mexico) and the Yellow Sea froze up to 20 km (13 miles) out from the shore. On the other side of the world, the Aztecs were faced with the greatest famine experienced in pre-history.
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hooey...interleague game...NL rules...no DH, pitcher pitches and hits...Ohtani not in the line up as either!...well, he just pitched day before yesterday....apparently, we are all just a supervolcano eruption away from a mini ice age...those Islanders are a miniature of the notion of a disaster and diaspora...they had a wild story to go with it too, which the article side steps...brb...Upton hit, Pujols hit...1st 2nd two outs...walk...Cozart up...K...
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If, however, one supposes that the stories are not fables but legends recording history in an allegorical code, interpretation acquires a different context. It then becomes a matter of cracking the code. For this to be done it is necessary to compare the legend with known historical facts, but that is not all. In the case of Polynesian legends at least, one must give full allowance for the role of metaphor, allegory and multiple meaning which evidently was integral to the genre of legend-making.
http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_105_1996/Volume_105%2C_No._3/Legend_and_history%3A_Did_the_Vanuatu-Tonga_kava_trade_cease_in_A.D._1447%3F%2C_by_David_Luders%2C_p_287-310/p1
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three quick outs..top of 2nd...
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This was a colossal eruption. It was one of the eight greatest volcanic events in the past ten thousand years.
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same a previous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kava
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hmmph...kava reminds me the Mayans and their chocolate...kava sounds like lava...brb...well, there's a reading, open mic...bottom 5th, Rockies 1-0...brb...bk...small group at the Gypsy Den...but enough...listened, then picked up when it went over the top modernist laced with profanities...I dunno...disappointing as I'd have liked to do one...but just feel pushed to the side...bullied even...which is ironic...as poems of that sort are usually about some kind of bullying...Calhoun came up bottom of ninth, ph...Angels down 2, one out, one on...and an infield dribbler and dp...Rockies 4-Angels 2...don't know the details of innings 6-8...Upton hit two run homerun...that about it for the Angels offense...and, another game on!...Warriors demolishing the Pelicans in the third quarter...the season has moved to its foregone conclusions...Cleveland and Boston, Warriors and Rockets...the rest of the season much to do about...promotion...where was I...lava...brb...
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ʻAʻā is one of three basic types of flow lava. ʻAʻā is basaltic lava characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinker. The Hawaiian word was introduced as a technical term in geology by Clarence Dutton.
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Pāhoehoe (/pəˈhoʊiˈhoʊi/; from Hawaiian [paːˈhoweˈhowe],[15] meaning "smooth, unbroken lava"), also spelled pahoehoe, is basaltic lava that has a smooth, billowy, undulating, or ropy surface. These surface features are due to the movement of very fluid lava under a congealing surface crust.
(like a canoe paddle swirling water)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava
lava in Hawaii on the news looks to be a a...brb...
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Xiuhtecuhtli's face is painted with black and red pigment.[
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Xiuhtecuhtli was usually depicted adorned with turquoise mosaic, wearing the turquoise xiuhuitzolli crown of rulership on his head and a turquoise butterfly pectoral on his chest,[25] and he often wears a descending turquoise xiuhtototl bird (Cotinga amabilis) on his forehead and the Xiuhcoatl fire serpent on his back.[26] He owns fire serpent earplugs.[11] On his head he has a paper crown painted with different colors and motifs. On top of the crown there are sprays of green feathers, like flames from a fire.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuhtecuhtli
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Aztec god of Volcanos, and fire in general...homes had a perpetual flame in his honor...his description sounds like the Tula Warriors...
One of 4 male and 1 female stone figures depicting the warriors who support the gods’ creation by their military actions, originally in the ceremonial precinct of the Templo Mayor, and discovered in 1944. These warrior figures may have formed part of a sacred building in Tenochtitlan representing the Aztec vision of the cosmos. Whilst the other four figures marked the four cardinal directions, this bearded figure indicated the centre of the universe, the ‘crossroads’ of the four directions. They all wear large stylised butterfly pectorals of Toltec origin, a pattern repeated on their helmets.
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/spotlight/deified-warrior
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well...the butterfly breastplate is a will-o-wisp!...let me see if I can find Capt. Cooks depiction of the Tahitians' boat, and the Mayan boats Columbus saw...seven point game....Pelicans making a last gasp run...this is just a torment!...Warriors are just mean!
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Christopher Columbus encountered the Maya in the Yucatan on his fourth voyage to the New World. His son Ferdinand wrote:
hmmph...Warriors 113-104...that indigenous boat sight is knockdown...more tomorrow morrow...
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If, however, one supposes that the stories are not fables but legends recording history in an allegorical code, interpretation acquires a different context. It then becomes a matter of cracking the code. For this to be done it is necessary to compare the legend with known historical facts, but that is not all. In the case of Polynesian legends at least, one must give full allowance for the role of metaphor, allegory and multiple meaning which evidently was integral to the genre of legend-making.
http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_105_1996/Volume_105%2C_No._3/Legend_and_history%3A_Did_the_Vanuatu-Tonga_kava_trade_cease_in_A.D._1447%3F%2C_by_David_Luders%2C_p_287-310/p1
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three quick outs..top of 2nd...
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This was a colossal eruption. It was one of the eight greatest volcanic events in the past ten thousand years.
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Garanger also excavated a burial on Tongoa island believed to be that of Ti Tongoa Liseiriki, the hero of the recolonisation of Tongoa after the eruption of Kuwae. Supporting his interpretation of this excavation he reiterated Guiart's rendition of the legend of the explosion.
In 1994 I recorded substantially the same legend, with the verifying songs. Briefly, the legend is that the catastrophe was caused by the actions of a young man whose parents had been refugees from an erupting island to the north (Lopevi, then called Lumbarae). His mother had been reduced to prostitution and he was tricked into sexual congress with her. In his shame, he determined to wreak revenge by destroying the island, using magic from their home island. He held feasts on successive days, each time killing a pig and preserving the pig's bladder, dried and inflated. On the sixth day, at the final feast, he burst each bladder in turn, causing successively more violent earth movement. On his bursting the final bladder, the volcano erupted from beneath him.
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so, a culture established among these islands, then the volcano erupted, sinking some of them?, and afterwards oral stories handed down, in the fantastic fashion which seems so common in myths, and since collected...this article a dense read!...
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“Her tongue had fallen back”: the great tongue of erupting magma had shot up, ceased, and seawater had then rushed into the “mouth”, which may have remained mildly active as, intermittently, it is still. The man “looked on the placenta of the woman which had become red in the lips of the woman”: the land around the site of the eruption, the “mouth” (and also the source of the placenta, birth being eruption), was red, raw, naked volcanic earth. (There may also have been a redness visible beneath the sea due to remnant activity. Tongoan eyewitnesses have described such a sight to me.) Well might the man be afraid!
The imagery seems plain enough. It is also noteworthy that three bodily metaphors — mouth and tongue, birth and placenta, entrails — are interwoven in a confusing way. This may be an example of the legend-maker's art of measured obscurity in poetic allegory.
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nothing doing second inning...on to top of 3rd...grabbed that for the last sentence: "This may be an example..."...well, this has been everyone's hope...to somehow link the fantastic in myths to an anchoring reality..."the crowd was going nuts" watching Ohtani wap homeruns during batting practice..."all ground outs and strike outs"...on to bottom 3rd...the article goes on mostly about 'kava'...
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Prized kava certainly was, especially in scarcity. Reserved for the highest classes, its qualities considered an avenue to the unseen world, it bordered on the mystical. It was probably more alluring to Polynesians than were spices, tea, coffee and opium to Europeans and Asians. If those commodities could produce the voyaging, rivalry and conflicts they did, kava could have drawn Tongans to Melanesia. Indeed, there can be few more likely conjunctions than Vanuatu's wealth of kava and sailors of “imperial” Tonga to explain the carriage of kava into Polynesia.
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Oh, the volcano ended the Kava trade...
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However long the trade went on, the Kuwae explosion stopped it. One can scarcely overstate the effect this stupendous occurrence must have had.
same as previous
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dink hit, bunt, dink hit...run scores...Rockies 1-0...brb...
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The day of revealing shall see what it sees:
A seeing of facts, a sifting of rumors,
An insight won by the black sacred ʻawa,
A vision like that of a sacred god![this quote needs a citation]
A seeing of facts, a sifting of rumors,
An insight won by the black sacred ʻawa,
A vision like that of a sacred god![this quote needs a citation]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kava
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hmmph...kava reminds me the Mayans and their chocolate...kava sounds like lava...brb...well, there's a reading, open mic...bottom 5th, Rockies 1-0...brb...bk...small group at the Gypsy Den...but enough...listened, then picked up when it went over the top modernist laced with profanities...I dunno...disappointing as I'd have liked to do one...but just feel pushed to the side...bullied even...which is ironic...as poems of that sort are usually about some kind of bullying...Calhoun came up bottom of ninth, ph...Angels down 2, one out, one on...and an infield dribbler and dp...Rockies 4-Angels 2...don't know the details of innings 6-8...Upton hit two run homerun...that about it for the Angels offense...and, another game on!...Warriors demolishing the Pelicans in the third quarter...the season has moved to its foregone conclusions...Cleveland and Boston, Warriors and Rockets...the rest of the season much to do about...promotion...where was I...lava...brb...
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ʻAʻā is one of three basic types of flow lava. ʻAʻā is basaltic lava characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinker. The Hawaiian word was introduced as a technical term in geology by Clarence Dutton.
... ... ...
Pāhoehoe (/pəˈhoʊiˈhoʊi/; from Hawaiian [paːˈhoweˈhowe],[15] meaning "smooth, unbroken lava"), also spelled pahoehoe, is basaltic lava that has a smooth, billowy, undulating, or ropy surface. These surface features are due to the movement of very fluid lava under a congealing surface crust.
(like a canoe paddle swirling water)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava
lava in Hawaii on the news looks to be a a...brb...
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Xiuhtecuhtli's face is painted with black and red pigment.[
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Xiuhtecuhtli was usually depicted adorned with turquoise mosaic, wearing the turquoise xiuhuitzolli crown of rulership on his head and a turquoise butterfly pectoral on his chest,[25] and he often wears a descending turquoise xiuhtototl bird (Cotinga amabilis) on his forehead and the Xiuhcoatl fire serpent on his back.[26] He owns fire serpent earplugs.[11] On his head he has a paper crown painted with different colors and motifs. On top of the crown there are sprays of green feathers, like flames from a fire.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuhtecuhtli
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Aztec god of Volcanos, and fire in general...homes had a perpetual flame in his honor...his description sounds like the Tula Warriors...
One of 4 male and 1 female stone figures depicting the warriors who support the gods’ creation by their military actions, originally in the ceremonial precinct of the Templo Mayor, and discovered in 1944. These warrior figures may have formed part of a sacred building in Tenochtitlan representing the Aztec vision of the cosmos. Whilst the other four figures marked the four cardinal directions, this bearded figure indicated the centre of the universe, the ‘crossroads’ of the four directions. They all wear large stylised butterfly pectorals of Toltec origin, a pattern repeated on their helmets.
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/spotlight/deified-warrior
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well...the butterfly breastplate is a will-o-wisp!...let me see if I can find Capt. Cooks depiction of the Tahitians' boat, and the Mayan boats Columbus saw...seven point game....Pelicans making a last gasp run...this is just a torment!...Warriors are just mean!
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Christopher Columbus encountered the Maya in the Yucatan on his fourth voyage to the New World. His son Ferdinand wrote:
"...there arrived at that time a canoe long as a galley and eight feet [2.5m] wide, made of a single tree trunk like the other Indian canoes; it was freighted with merchandise from the western regions around New Spain. Amidships it had a palm-leaf awning like that which the Venetian gondolas carry; this gave complete protection against the rain and waves. Under this awning were the children and women and all the baggage and merchandise. There were twenty-five paddlers...."http://indigenousboats.blogspot.com/search/label/Maya
hmmph...Warriors 113-104...that indigenous boat sight is knockdown...more tomorrow morrow...
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