{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/508", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 508, "subject": "Names, animals and meanings (M)", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "1998-07-29T22:07:42+00:00", "last": "1998-07-31T00:05:32+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "mary whalen", "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com" }, "date": "1998-07-29T22:07:42+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals and meanings (M)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nMacaque. Any species of genus Macaca. Monkeys that usually have\nshort tails and long feet. Boy at the palaestra.\n\nMagnesia. Any one of several forms of magnesium oxide. Marble's real\nname.\n\nMamelta. Name of a martyred Christian Persian saint who died in 344. \nWolfe says that if it is of Greek origin (which is possible), it\nprobably means not careless, but he doesn't know the origin for sure. \nI'm fairly sure it isn't Greek, because its older form is Mamelchtha,\nwhich doesn't look Greek at all. She's the saint of October fifth on\nthe Catholic calendar. A sleeper from Urth awakened by being\npossessed by Mucor. Apparently dead.\n\nMandrill. Any species of genus Mandrillus, especially the mandrill\n(Mandrillus sphinx). Maned, short-tailed monkeys. Hairless faces. \nHave several hairless areas they use for various kinds of displays. \nGelada's cousin. Mandrills are related closely to geladas.\n\nMaple. Any one of many trees or shrubs of genus Acer. Young Maytera\non Brick Street.\n\nMarble. From Greek marmaros (marble, rock), from marainein (to decay,\nwaste away). A white limestone that is usually mixed with other\ncolors in various ways. Also balls made of or resembling marble and\nthe game played with them. Maytera Marble is an old chem at Silk's\npalaestra. She was activated on Urth. Repaired self with parts that\nRose had used and mixed her personality with hers. Part of the\nmeaning of her name probably is related to the fact that the word\ncomes from the Greek word to decay, because Marble is in a fairly bad\nstate. Like marble, she is mixed with other colors besides the\noriginal, some of which obscure the white (truth). Also, she's lost\nher marbles.\n\nMarl. A loose or crumbling deposit of mostly calcium carbonate or\ndolomite. Also a deposit of broken shells. Also just clay or earth. \nAlso a form of the word marble. Also a slender grey-brown bandicoot\n(Perameles myosura). Also Ardisia paniculata, a shrub or small tree\nwith dark berries (marlberries). Old chemical person who serves\nFulmar, possibly because of reprogramming.\n\nMarmot. Any species of genus Marmota, including Marmota monax, the\nwoodchuck (groundhog). Woodchucks are fast-growing, belligerent, and\nwary. Man who joins Mint's forces.\n\nMarrow. Red and yellow marrow are soft tissues in bones. Yellow\nmarrow is mostly fat, red is mainly red-blood-cell producing tissue. \nAlso an old word for the best portion of food. Greengrocer. Becomes\na leader of the Blue colonists.\n\nMatar. A Trivigaunti pterotrooper.\n\nMattak. As stated by someone earlier on this list, Mattak is a word\nin a dialect of Inuit (Eskimo) for dried whale meat. In my Inuit\ndictionary (of a different dialect), whale meat or whale skin is\nlisted as Muk'tuk. Soldier. Oosik's son. Fed on by Quetzal.\n\nMear. Irish for quick, fast, nimble, lively, spirited, rash,\nquick-tempered, crazy, mad, furious, angry, digit, finger. Flyer\nkilled by the Trivigauntis.\n\nMockorange. A shrub of genus Philadelphus. Sibyl from Sun Street. \nNow dead.\n\nMolpe. Greek for song. In Greek mythology the name of one of the\nSeirenes (Sirens). The Seirenes' parentage was attributed to many\nfigures by various sources. Usually they are said to be the daughter\nof one of the Mousai (Muses) and either Phorcys or Acheloos. Their\nsong supposedly killed by causing passing sailors to stay on their\nisland listening forever, to fall overboard, or to crash on the rocks.\n A major goddess, one of the Nine and of the Seven. Goddess of music,\ndancing, art, air, the wind, and light things. Associated with the\nsecond day of the week and with songbirds and butterflies. Supposed\nchild of Pas and Echidna. A dancer and musician who had fits of\ninsanity.\n\nMolybdenum. Also called moly. A metallic element. Silvery white. \nUsed in metabolism of plants and animals. Hammerstone's old\nsweetheart. Called Moly for short. Moly was a mythical herb that\nOdysseus used to counter Circe's magic. It is also a garlic with\nyellow flowers (Allium moly).\n\nMoorgrass. One of several different kinds of grass. Heath grass\n(Sieglingia decumbens). Flying bent (Molinia coerulea). Eriophorum\nangustifolium. All of these are grasses found on moors. Woman who\nbegan to prepare Quetzal's body for burial. I wonder if this has to\ndo with her name being a form of the grass called flying bent?\n\nMoray. The moray eel. Any species of family Muraenidae. Tongueless,\nlong, thin, snake-like fish with sharp teeth. This family contains\nmany brightly-colored species. Patera murdered by Eft.\n\nMucor. Latin for mold. A genus of the family Mucoraceae or any\nspecies of that genus. Mucors have spore cases that are found in many\ndifferent areas of their bodies. These cases are round and usually\ncylindrical or pear-shaped. Adopted daughter of Blood. He bought her\nas a frozen embryo, which he had Crane insert into a woman. She\napparently has psychic abilities and can mentally leave her body and\npossess others.\n\nMurtagon. All I could find fitting this is martagon, also called the\nred-cap lily, turk's-cap lily, and the turk's cap (Lilium martagon or\nLilium superbum). Murtagon is a famous artist. The red cap reminds\nme of the stereotypical artist's beret.\n\nMusk. A strong-smelling bodily substance obtained from a variety of\nanimals. Used in perfume and associated with sexuality. Also a name\nfor the grape hyacinth. Blood's second-in-command, a sadistic killer.\n Has several unusual sexual habits.\n\nprion" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "William H. Ansley", "address": "wansley at warwick.net" }, "date": "1998-07-31T00:05:32+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (M)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Marrow. Red and yellow marrow are soft tissues in bones. Yellow\nmarrow is mostly fat, red is mainly red-blood-cell producing tissue.\nAlso an old word for the best portion of food. Greengrocer. Becomes\na leader of the Blue colonists." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The zuchinni squash is also know as a vegtable marrow, which ties in with\nthe greengrocer occupation.\n\nWilliam Ansley" } ] } ] }