Names, animals and meanings (M8)

mary whalen · 09 Aug 1998, 20:32 · from whorl-v0008.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: mary whalen <marewhalen at yahoo.com>
Subject: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (M8)
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:32:10
Message-ID: <whorl-v0008-0735 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0008/0735.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This is Sean Whalen (prion).

Matar.  Arabic for rain or airport.  A Trivigaunti pterotrooper.  She
comes down like rain, the ship's from an airport, etc.
=20
Mattak.  Also maktak, maktuk, muktuk, muntuk.  Inuit (Eskimo) word for
whale meat, whale skin, whale meat with skin on it, and the dried
variety of any of the previous definitions.  Soldier.  Oosik's son.=20
Fed on by Quetzal.  The name sounds like English mattock, a tool with
a variety of purposes.  Mattak may have the same associations with the
mattock that his father Oosik has with the baculus.
=20
Murtagon.  All I could find fitting this is martagon, also spelled
martagan, mortegon, and martigon which is also called the red-cap
lily, turk's-cap lily, and the turk's cap (Lilium martagon or Lilium
superbum).  With all the alternate spellings, it's quite possible that
murtagon exists as well.  Martagon (with an acute accent over the o)
is also Spanish for cunning, clever, artful.  Murtagon is a famous
artist.  The red cap reminds me of the stereotypical artist's beret.

prion
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

*More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net