# Oosik and Mattak *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Mar 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *21 Mar 1997, 21:34* Kudos to Wesley Parsons! Oosik and Mattak were real head-scratchers, and a wonderful find. Now if someone could just pin down the Triv language so we could start in on them. No Arab or Turkik scholars here? Oh, and I agree that Mamelta needn't be a plant name (pace Olive, which exists as a name now in a less rigid naming system), though it would be neat (literally) if it was.. Mamata was an Indian demi-goddess demi-raped by her brother-in-law (she was already pregnant by her husband and the fetus prevented the rape). Mamitu was an evil Mesopotamian goddess. But I don't buy either of those--and it shouldn't be a goddess name anyway. We'll have to keep looking. -alga- Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---