Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)

In a message dated 08/01/2002 04.57.47 PM, Stegz ;) quotes my sig.line then
writes:

>> Hanuman Zhang
>> Avatar of Sun WuKong, a.k.a "Monkey", a.k.a. "the Monkey King,"
>> a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese
>> Boxers"
>-
>
>How long has that "Glorious Anti-Imperialist" been in there?  i don't
>remember it in the first few incarnations of that sig ;-)
    It was amended like a month and 1/2 ago. Despite his
near-incomprehensible English L1 writing style, Abrigon (Mikey from Alaska)
pointed out - in a private email - that he mistook it for some kind of
underwear *snarlfle!*... so I decided to not only make it much clearer but
more historical/hysterical in Boxer style language ;)

>But anyway...
>
>this isn't really a direct weather thing, but more like how the weather
>more subtly influences Rokbeigalmki society.  Because for most of their
>history they've lived an ocean-nomadic
>southern-hemisphere-near-the-equator existence, they need to protect
>themselves from getting sunstroke much of the time.  So, they took to
>wearing all kinds of head coverings, from woven straw hats to turban-like
>and doorag (sp?) -like wraps.
    AFAIK: dew-rag... or do-rag (as in hairdo-rag)...

< SNiP of wonderfully described "hat and headwear fashions" of the Rokbeigalm
>
>
>Also, the Rokbeigalm have a concept known as |ngiirau| /n"ajrO/
>(/n"/=uvular) [ . . . ]Ngiirau is an appreciation and respect for the power
and >beauty inherent in dangerous actions and forces - for example, natural
disasters
>generally have a high ngiirau factor. [ . . . ]Also human-made occurances
can be >instilled with ngiirau - for instance, that's how the Rokbeigalm
explain (or would, if >they had cars) why people are drawn to look at car
wrecks.  Less gory examples of >ngiirau would be someone climbing Mount
Everest - ngiirau would be felt both for >the dangerous beauty and power of
the mountain itself, as well as the courage
>of the climber in facing it.
    Intriguing. Do the Rokbeigalm mountain climb? So they surf, too, esp'ly
since they lead a "ocean-nomadic southern-hemisphere-near-the-equator
existence"?
    Lotta surfers (& skateboarders too) I have known would totally understand
"ngiirau" once explained to them (maybe a few surfers would understand it a
little TOO well - esp'ly the few "big wave" fanatics I have known/know...)

>-Stephen (Steg)
> "there is darkness all around us;
>  but if darkness *is*, and the darkness is of the forest,
>  then the darkness must be good."
>     ~ song of the BaMbuti in troubled times
    Niceness. I haven't seen this sig.line in awhile... thought ya had dumped
it...

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Hanuman Zhang
Avatar of Sun WuKong, a.k.a "Monkey", a.k.a. "the Monkey King,"
a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers"

    =>  om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat  <=
    mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod

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