Where did Abaia go?

David Stockhoff · 18 Jul 2010, 13:09 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:09:09 -0400
Subject: (urth) Where did Abaia go?
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Could "Diuturna" be pronounced "Juturna"?

Lee Berman wrote:
> In my last post under Patera Inire (which has a typo- should start- "I don't agree") 
> I mention an allegorical answer I think best for explaining how an ocean-bound 
> creature like Abaia could be destroyed by a flood.
>  
> But for those who don't see Judeo-Christianity in this story, I will offer a more
> textual explanation. Perhaps Abaia doesn't really live in the ocean. Abaia is the
> name for a magical *freshwater* eel in Melanesian mythology. So perhaps
> a flood could kill off Abaia simply via contact with salt water. 
>  
> Abaia's most likely freshwater home would surely be Lake Diuturna. We have the
> similarity of the name to Juturna, the daughter-bride of Abaia. We have (perhaps
> aspiring megatherian) Baldanders choosing to live near and eventually under the
> waters of this lake. The Lake/Island people have their belief in a fish god 
> beneath the waters. But perhaps the best evidence for the presence of Abaia is 
> the Lake/Shore people's town which is named "Murene". This Latin derived, Germanic
> word basically means "moray eel" (which does include freshwater versions).  
>
>  
> (sorry if this idea had been posted before. If so I hadn't seen it) 		 	   		  
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