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  "thread": {
    "id": 511,
    "subject": "Names, animals and meanings (P)",
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    "first": "1998-07-30T11:11:07+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-30T11:11:07+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0696@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-30T11:11:07+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals and meanings (P)",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nPaca.  Any species of genus Cuniculus of family Dasyproctidae,\nespecially the paca (Cuniculus paca).  Cuniculus is Latin for rabbit\nor burrow.  Related closely to agoutis.  Nocturnal rodents about two\nfeet long.  Digs burrows.  Good swimmer.  Hunted for their meat.  One\nof Spiders spies who died in the tunnels.\n\nPas.  Greek for all.  Pseudonym Typhon uses.  A major god.  One of the\nNine.  God of weather, wind, rain, sun, machinery, and many other\nthings.  Associated with cattle and birds of prey.  Shown with two\nheads.  Said to have built the Whorl.  Typhon was actually the Monarch\nof Urth and many other worlds.\n\nPeeper.  Any young animal that peeps or chirps.  Also any species of\nchirping frog, especially of family Hylidae (the treefrogs), and most\nespecially the spring peeper (Hylidae Hyla crucifer).  The spring\npeeper has adhesive toes, lives in trees, and can leap to catch\ninsects in the air.  Can jump seventeen times its length.  Its song\nbegins at the start of spring.  Jailer at the Juzgado.\n\nPetal.  The leaf-shaped part of a flower.  Also, a body part of a sea\nurchin of order Exocycloida.  Alias of Titi.\n\nPhaea.  Greek for gray.  In Greek mythology is the child of Typhon and\nEchidna, or others.  Called the Crommyonian Sow.  A monstrous pig who\nterrorized the land around Crommyon in Corinth until killed by\nTheseus.  Some sources say that this was actually an old bandit\nnicknamed the Sow who was terrorizing the place.  In the Whorl is a\nmajor goddess.  One of the Nine and of the Seven.  The goddess of food\nand healing, but also of killing in order to eat.  Associated with\nswine and the sixth day of the week.  Supposed child of Typhon and\nEchidna.  Her problem is gluttony.\n\nPike.  A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the\nnorthern pike.  Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles\nthe pike.  Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear.  Old\naugur on Sun Street.  Blood's father.  Dead.\n\nPoppy.  Any of various species of genus Papaver or related genera. \nWhite, red, or yellow showy flowers.  The source of opium.  A\nprostitute at Orchid's.\n\nPork.  Pork is a food made from the meat of the pig.  Restaurant owner.\n\nPotto.  Any member of genus Perodicticus or Arctocebus, especially the\npotto (Lorisidae Perodicticus potto).  Primates related to monkeys. \nStout, with large legs and arms and a large neck.  Large eyes.  Live\nin trees. The potto has four spines at the back of its neck.  Member\nof the Ayuntamiento.\n\nprion"
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