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Any species of prickly or stinging plants of genus Urtica or\nfamily Urticaceae. Horn's wife. Coauthor of the Book of Silk.\n\nNewt. A small amphibious salamander, usually of genus Triturus. The\nname formed because of an incorrect merging of an ewte (a newte). \nEwte was the animal's original English name, and it remains in the\nword eft. New member of the Ayuntamiento.\n\nNizam. Trivigaunti private who takes in Tick for a while.\n\nprion\n_________________________________________________________\nDO YOU YAHOO!?\nGet your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com\n\n\n\n--------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.2 ---------------\n\nFrom: mary whalen \nSubject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (O)\nDate: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:55:59 -0700 (PDT)\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\n\nThis is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nOlive. Any plant of genus Olea, especially Olea europaea. Produce\nolives. Also a first name. A sleeper.\n\nOont. From Hindi uut, from Sanskrit ustra. A camel (Camelus ferus). \nOont is a porter. A camel is used to carry things.\n\nOosik. Someone else previously found out that oosik is an Inuit\n(Eskimo) dialect word for the penis bone of the walrus. My Inuit\ndictionary (of a different dialect) lists Oosh'ook as penis. \nGeneralissimo of Viron. Father of Mattak (Whale Meat). Name may have\nto do with his relationship with Hyacinth.\n\nOrchid. Any plant of family Ochidaceae. Flowers that are expensive\nand showy. Also a color (light purple). Madame of brothel on Lamp\nStreet. Mother of Orpine.\n\nOreb. Hebrew for raven. A chough is any species of genus Pyrrhocorax\n(red raven). Related to crows. Have black feathers and red legs. \nNight chough Silk buys to sacrifice, but doesn't.\n\nOrpine. Sedum telephium. A plant with red-purple flowers formerly\nused as folk medicine. Orchid's daughter. Possessed by Mucor and\nkilled by Chenille. Called Pine. Sounds like Orchid, her mother. \nAlso may suggest orphan, which is the way she lived for a time.\n\nOutsider, the. God of the downtrodden. Apparently the Whorl's name\nfor God. Not known or worshipped much, because most records are\nchanged or gone.\n\nprion\n_________________________________________________________\nDO YOU YAHOO!?\nGet your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com\n\n\n\n--------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.3 ---------------\n\nFrom: mary whalen \nSubject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (P)\nDate: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:11:07 -0700 (PDT)\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\n\nThis 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\n_________________________________________________________\nDO YOU YAHOO!?\nGet your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com\n\n\n\n--------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.4 ---------------\n\nFrom: \"William H. Ansley\" \nSubject: Re: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (M)\nDate: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:05:32 -0400\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\nIn-Reply-To: <199807300515.WAA18964 at lists1.best.com>" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "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": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "The zuchinni squash is also know as a vegtable marrow, which ties in with\nthe greengrocer occupation.\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n\n\n\n--------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.5 ---------------\n\nFrom: mary whalen \nSubject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (Q)\nDate: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:48:16 -0700 (PDT)\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\n\nThis is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nQuetzal. Plural quetzals or quetzales. Also spelled quezal or\nquesal. From the Nahuatl word quetzalli (large bright tail feather). \nA species (Pharomachrus mocinno) of family Trogonidae (the trogon\nfamily [trogon means \"one who gnaws\" in Greek]) of order\nTrogoniformes. The trogons are brightly plumed tree-dwelling birds\n(the males are brighter than the females). Their feet have two toes\nin front and two in back, like most tree-dwelling birds, but they are\nthe only birds who have the first and second toes in front, rather\nthan the first and fourth. The quetzal has green feathers on top and \nand at the throat and crimson ones on the bottom. The top of the head\nhas a puffy crown of feathers. Males have long green tail feathers\nthat can be over two feet long and are regrown after each breeding\nseason. The birds themselves are only about a foot long. They live\nin the lower layers of tropical forest trees in Mexico and Central\nAmerica. They are semi-solitary. They are very fond of fruit and also\neat insects, small frogs, lizards, and snails. Males and females\nalternate sitting on the eggs. The long feathers were used in\nceremonies by the Mayans and Aztecs, who believed the quetzal was\nsacred, and associated it with Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent god. \nThe quetzal dance is performed by the Totonacs of Mexico to honor the\nquetzal as a sun symbol. The men perform the dance and where disk\nheaddresses to represent the sun. They dance longways by two-steps\nand knee-raisings. The advance, withdraw, and follow the leader down\nthe center and around, split up, cross over, cross back, and and\nfinally the lines wind back and forth through each other in a\nserpentine path. The quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala. \nQuetzal is also the name of the basic money unit of Guatemala. The\ngod Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, was worshipped all over\nCentral America. He was known as Eecatl (Aztec for wind) when\nfunctioning as a wind god. He was called Ce Acatl (One Cane) as lord\nof the planet Venus. He was also the creator god, the sun during one\nof the previous incarnations of the world. He went to Mictlan, the\nunderworld, and brought the bones of the people of the previous worlds\nto Earth. He sprinkled his blood over them, making them into humans. \nHe gave them corn, art, weaving, polishing jade, making feather\nmantles, and taught the calendar and astronomy. He was described as\nlight-skinned and bearded. The worship of Pas on the Whorl seems\nsimilar to the Aztec worship of Quetzalcoatl. Qu. was supposedly\nbested by Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror), and sailed east on a raft\nmade of snakes in humiliation. He said that he would return in the\nyear Ce Acatl, and when Cortes landed in that year (1519) he was at\nfirst thought to be Qu. returning. Tezcatlipoca, by the way, was an\nearlier sun who Qu. knocked from the sky and turned into a tiger. He\nwas god of witches, thieves, night, dark, evil, and warriors. He was\nomnipotent, invisible, and gave and took life as he wanted. Quetzal\nis an inhumu from Green who came onto the Whorl and became Prolocutor\nof Viron.\n\nprion\n_________________________________________________________\nDO YOU YAHOO!?\nGet your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com\n\n\n\n--------------- END whorl.v008.n058 ---------------\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] } ] }