Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:48:37 -0400 Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
writes:
> In Nrit culture, a game of is played with a deck of cards depicting
> various
> important gods, heroes, and symbols.  A card is put down, and
> players take
> turns drawing cards and trying to relate them via story allusion to
> the card
> on the board.  If they cannot relate a card in their hand to it,
> they must
> place a card on the table, from their hand, facedown.  A player may
> turn
> over a facedown card from the player who will be next and attempt to
> capture
> that instead of whatever cards are on the table faceup.  When two or
> more
> cards are related, the player takes them.  When ll the cards run
> out, the
> player who has captured the most wins the hand, and the game moves
> on to X
> number of hands, usually eleven. These definitely have a right side.
> Shreyas
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The Rokbeigalm have a tarot-like pastime of self-reflection and
semi-serious future-prediction, based on their belief in the 5 "Life
Elements".  But i'm not sure how it is exactly done... with things like
cards, or with round chit-like pieces?  maybe blocks or sticks...
There are 36 pieces, each corresponding to a combination of two elements
and/or 'nothing', which has its own meanings.  Although i don't know what
any of them would mean yet.
Each element corresponds to a life-cycle event.

The elements are:
dwi ~ water ~ being born
zek ~ fire ~ puberty
reiyug ~ blood ~ marriage
aurez ~ wood ~ giving birth / begetting
amal ~ earth ~ death

So there would be combinations like fire/nothing, blood/water,
water/earth, wood/wood, earth/water, etc.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "verbing weirds language." ~ calvin (& hobbes)