# unsubcribe Digest whorl.v008.n058 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 31 Jul 1998* > 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. --- ### Internet Megantic *31 Jul 1998, 10:44* UNSUBSCRIBE > At 22:49 30-07-98 -0700, you wrote: > > -------------- BEGIN whorl.v008.n058 -------------- > > 001 - mary whalen 002 - mary whalen 003 - mary whalen 004 - "William H. Ansley" meanings (M) > 005 - mary whalen > WHORL Digest -- for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun > > > --------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.1 --------------- > > From: mary whalen > Subject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (N) > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:17:48 -0700 (PDT) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > This is Sean Whalen (prion). > > Nettle. Any species of prickly or stinging plants of genus Urtica or > family Urticaceae. Horn's wife. Coauthor of the Book of Silk. > > Newt. A small amphibious salamander, usually of genus Triturus. The > name formed because of an incorrect merging of an ewte (a newte). > Ewte was the animal's original English name, and it remains in the > word eft. New member of the Ayuntamiento. > > Nizam. Trivigaunti private who takes in Tick for a while. > > prion > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.2 --------------- > > From: mary whalen > Subject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (O) > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:55:59 -0700 (PDT) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > This is Sean Whalen (prion). > > Olive. Any plant of genus Olea, especially Olea europaea. Produce > olives. Also a first name. A sleeper. > > Oont. From Hindi uut, from Sanskrit ustra. A camel (Camelus ferus). > Oont is a porter. A camel is used to carry things. > > Oosik. Someone else previously found out that oosik is an Inuit > (Eskimo) dialect word for the penis bone of the walrus. My Inuit > dictionary (of a different dialect) lists Oosh'ook as penis. > Generalissimo of Viron. Father of Mattak (Whale Meat). Name may have > to do with his relationship with Hyacinth. > > Orchid. Any plant of family Ochidaceae. Flowers that are expensive > and showy. Also a color (light purple). Madame of brothel on Lamp > Street. Mother of Orpine. > > Oreb. Hebrew for raven. A chough is any species of genus Pyrrhocorax > (red raven). Related to crows. Have black feathers and red legs. > Night chough Silk buys to sacrifice, but doesn't. > > Orpine. Sedum telephium. A plant with red-purple flowers formerly > used as folk medicine. Orchid's daughter. Possessed by Mucor and > killed by Chenille. Called Pine. Sounds like Orchid, her mother. > Also may suggest orphan, which is the way she lived for a time. > > Outsider, the. God of the downtrodden. Apparently the Whorl's name > for God. Not known or worshipped much, because most records are > changed or gone. > > prion > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.3 --------------- > > From: mary whalen > Subject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (P) > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:11:07 -0700 (PDT) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > This is Sean Whalen (prion). > > Paca. Any species of genus Cuniculus of family Dasyproctidae, > especially the paca (Cuniculus paca). Cuniculus is Latin for rabbit > or burrow. Related closely to agoutis. Nocturnal rodents about two > feet long. Digs burrows. Good swimmer. Hunted for their meat. One > of Spiders spies who died in the tunnels. > > Pas. Greek for all. Pseudonym Typhon uses. A major god. One of the > Nine. God of weather, wind, rain, sun, machinery, and many other > things. Associated with cattle and birds of prey. Shown with two > heads. Said to have built the Whorl. Typhon was actually the Monarch > of Urth and many other worlds. > > Peeper. Any young animal that peeps or chirps. Also any species of > chirping frog, especially of family Hylidae (the treefrogs), and most > especially the spring peeper (Hylidae Hyla crucifer). The spring > peeper has adhesive toes, lives in trees, and can leap to catch > insects in the air. Can jump seventeen times its length. Its song > begins at the start of spring. Jailer at the Juzgado. > > Petal. The leaf-shaped part of a flower. Also, a body part of a sea > urchin of order Exocycloida. Alias of Titi. > > Phaea. Greek for gray. In Greek mythology is the child of Typhon and > Echidna, or others. Called the Crommyonian Sow. A monstrous pig who > terrorized the land around Crommyon in Corinth until killed by > Theseus. Some sources say that this was actually an old bandit > nicknamed the Sow who was terrorizing the place. In the Whorl is a > major goddess. One of the Nine and of the Seven. The goddess of food > and healing, but also of killing in order to eat. Associated with > swine and the sixth day of the week. Supposed child of Typhon and > Echidna. Her problem is gluttony. > > Pike. A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the > northern pike. Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles > the pike. Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear. Old > augur on Sun Street. Blood's father. Dead. > > Poppy. Any of various species of genus Papaver or related genera. > White, red, or yellow showy flowers. The source of opium. A > prostitute at Orchid's. > > Pork. Pork is a food made from the meat of the pig. Restaurant owner. > > Potto. Any member of genus Perodicticus or Arctocebus, especially the > potto (Lorisidae Perodicticus potto). Primates related to monkeys. > Stout, with large legs and arms and a large neck. Large eyes. Live > in trees. The potto has four spines at the back of its neck. Member > of the Ayuntamiento. > > prion > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.4 --------------- > > From: "William H. Ansley" > Subject: Re: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (M) > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:05:32 -0400 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > In-Reply-To: <199807300515.WAA18964 at lists1.best.com> >> Marrow. Red and yellow marrow are soft tissues in bones. Yellow >> marrow is mostly fat, red is mainly red-blood-cell producing tissue. >> Also an old word for the best portion of food. Greengrocer. Becomes >> a leader of the Blue colonists. > The zuchinni squash is also know as a vegtable marrow, which ties in with > the greengrocer occupation. > > William Ansley > > > > > --------------- MESSAGE whorl.v008.n058.5 --------------- > > From: mary whalen > Subject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (Q) > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:48:16 -0700 (PDT) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > This is Sean Whalen (prion). > > Quetzal. Plural quetzals or quetzales. Also spelled quezal or > quesal. From the Nahuatl word quetzalli (large bright tail feather). > A species (Pharomachrus mocinno) of family Trogonidae (the trogon > family [trogon means "one who gnaws" in Greek]) of order > Trogoniformes. The trogons are brightly plumed tree-dwelling birds > (the males are brighter than the females). Their feet have two toes > in front and two in back, like most tree-dwelling birds, but they are > the only birds who have the first and second toes in front, rather > than the first and fourth. The quetzal has green feathers on top and > and at the throat and crimson ones on the bottom. The top of the head > has a puffy crown of feathers. Males have long green tail feathers > that can be over two feet long and are regrown after each breeding > season. The birds themselves are only about a foot long. They live > in the lower layers of tropical forest trees in Mexico and Central > America. They are semi-solitary. They are very fond of fruit and also > eat insects, small frogs, lizards, and snails. Males and females > alternate sitting on the eggs. The long feathers were used in > ceremonies by the Mayans and Aztecs, who believed the quetzal was > sacred, and associated it with Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent god. > The quetzal dance is performed by the Totonacs of Mexico to honor the > quetzal as a sun symbol. The men perform the dance and where disk > headdresses to represent the sun. They dance longways by two-steps > and knee-raisings. The advance, withdraw, and follow the leader down > the center and around, split up, cross over, cross back, and and > finally the lines wind back and forth through each other in a > serpentine path. The quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala. > Quetzal is also the name of the basic money unit of Guatemala. The > god Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, was worshipped all over > Central America. He was known as Eecatl (Aztec for wind) when > functioning as a wind god. He was called Ce Acatl (One Cane) as lord > of the planet Venus. He was also the creator god, the sun during one > of the previous incarnations of the world. He went to Mictlan, the > underworld, and brought the bones of the people of the previous worlds > to Earth. He sprinkled his blood over them, making them into humans. > He gave them corn, art, weaving, polishing jade, making feather > mantles, and taught the calendar and astronomy. He was described as > light-skinned and bearded. The worship of Pas on the Whorl seems > similar to the Aztec worship of Quetzalcoatl. Qu. was supposedly > bested by Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror), and sailed east on a raft > made of snakes in humiliation. He said that he would return in the > year Ce Acatl, and when Cortes landed in that year (1519) he was at > first thought to be Qu. returning. Tezcatlipoca, by the way, was an > earlier sun who Qu. knocked from the sky and turned into a tiger. He > was god of witches, thieves, night, dark, evil, and warriors. He was > omnipotent, invisible, and gave and took life as he wanted. Quetzal > is an inhumu from Green who came onto the Whorl and became Prolocutor > of Viron. > > prion > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --------------- END whorl.v008.n058 --------------- > > > *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---