Re: Moten's way of naming colours

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> At 21:23 23/05/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >What do I think of this system?  Marvelous!  I wish the
> >Teonim had thought of this.  They must have come in
> >contact with your people; the word for "blue" is:
> >
> >    _bov_:
> >
> >Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >
> >>                 With
> >> 'bo': sky, you make 'bova': sky blue.
> >
> >
>
>         Wow! That would be great if Moten speakers had been in contact with the
> Teonim. As you may know, the only speaker of Moten I know is |Sela Jemufan
> Atlinan C.G. He suffers from amnesia and was found and adopted by a Belgian
> family when he was approximately 8 (that was 15 years ago. He is 23 now,
> just like me). Nobody could ever find who he is and where he is from. If
> the Teonim have some evidence of the existence of a Moten speaking people,
> that would be great for him.
>
>                                                         Christophe Grandsire
>                                                 |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.
Christophe, the Teonim regularly kidnap people and make off with them
for
decades at a time, then deposit them in another time frame.  In this
respect,
they are very much like the fairies that abduct mortals.  In their own
realm,
they are people much like anybody else, but they are "fishers of men,"
so
to speak, and "fishers of people."  They like coming in contact with
other
cultures and "borrowing" things, which is why we delve so shallowly into
their etymologies.  Some words are recognizably Indo-European but the
rest
aren't.  Any Teonim who appear are usually imposters, and they like to
lure
visitors to their city and then "melt" into another part of the
universe.
That's why they can claim to have an earth history, and to have had a
hand
in major events.  Certain people who we think have died, have actually
been
abducted, like Alexander the Great and a number of others.  At one
point,
Teonaht law made it a felony to do this, and Tsorelai Mundya opened its
gates
to only a few visitors at a time, and carefully monitored their visits.
Joseph Atticus Johnson is in a little bit of peril in the Teach Yourself
Stories that I really have to finish before I die, but we're rooting for
him.
Could very well be that Sela Jumafin (can I call him Sela?) was one such
casualty, but we'd have to research that a bit.  Could be that TM
visited
his world and deposited him here.
<G>

> "Reality is just another point of view."
You can say that again.


Sally Caves
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoteach.html