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  "thread": {
    "id": 1888,
    "subject": "Inca Head of Day RE: postmodernism, OTism, continent-ism",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-29T15:55:52+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-29T15:55:52+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0321@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mitchell A. Bailey",
        "address": "mab at lindau.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-29T15:55:52+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Inca Head of Day RE: postmodernism, OTism, continent-ism",
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          "text": "JMCAzurin wrote:\n\nThis is just an idle observation. I'm not certain if it's been brought up\nbefore but....Wolfe translates 'Apu-Punchau' as 'Head of Day'. In Tagalog,\nat least, and possibly other languages spoken here in southeast asia, the\nword 'apo' means leader."
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          "text": "..."
        },
        {
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          "text": "  Does anyone speak native south american languages? Those people crossed\nover into the Americas over the land bridge at the Bering Strait, and are\nof Asian descent too. Perhaps there is a similar word for 'leader'?\n\nMikah"
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          "text": "...\nGreetings, Mikah. Not such a crazy theory - thanks for the interesting\nobservations re Tagalog, etc takes on the title \"Apu\". I don't by any\nmeans claim to \"know\" Quechua, the language of the Inca of Peru/Bolivia,\nbut I have enough information on hand to ba able to state that\n\"Apu-Punchau\" is an authentic Inca title; as Mantis points out, it is an\nalternate appellation for Inti, the sun god of the Quechua-speaking\npeoples. The name literally means \"Apu\" = lord, cheiftain, honorific\napplied to noblemen and deities; \"Punchau\" refers not I'm told to the\nliteral sun itself but to the sun-image used in the Inca state religion,\nthe personification of the solar deity. And I've seen somewhere else\nindependent of Wolfe \"Apu-Punchau\" translated \"Head of Day\".\n\nI've remarked on this matter a time or two. A couple of archive vlumes\nback, I raised the question of whether we were to read \"Apu-Punchau\" as\nliteral Quechua from the literal preimperial Quechua people, or as a\nsubstitute for a future autochthonous language in the manner the Latin\n\"Terminus Est\" , et al, was employed as an alias for some future dead\nlanguage rather than literally Latin."
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