Re: OT: Chinese zither

--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:

> >Understandable! Daine as a rule don't touch
> > organ
> >meats. Marrow and hearts are ok to many,
> >though.
>
> Cwendaso consider most organ meat a special
> treat.  Ok, not the intestines,
> those aren't exactly clean (yes, I know that
> they can be cleaned up; a
> Greek woman at our Church gave us some sheep
> intestine soup this Pascha,
> but we couldn't bring ourselves to eat it),
So you've never eaten sausage?

> and probably not the brains,
> eyeballs, etc.  But heart, liver, kidneys,
> those are all delicacies.
Uck. Well, they'd get on well with the Telerani.
They go gaga for organ meats, especially with the
Metranes comming up in a couple months. In
December, you won't be able to find a food stall
in Illenere that doesn't offer sheep eyeballs on
a stick or brain stuffed kidney wraps or pork
testicle surprise!

> >It's not the term I had in mind. I was
> >thinking
> >of an overtone flute, which is a holeless
> >recorder or whistle which is constructed in
> >such
> >a way that all the notes can be attained by
> >overblowing to the high partials. They're
> >traditional to some Scandinavian country. I
> >want to say Sweden or Finland.
>
> I do know about this type of flute.  ... It
> sounds sort of
> like a pipe organ radically out of whack.
> Really great.
Cool!

> >Of course, there's plenty of room for sacred
> >drums made out of the skulls of beloved
> >ancestors.
>
> Sorry, not these people!  They are so concerned
> about not defiling a dead
> body that they won't even undress it to put on
> new clothes for burial.  A
> person is buried in whatever they happened to
> die in.  And in war, they
> consider it their duty, as civilized people, to
> keep guard over the bodies
> of their slain enemies and prevent the bodies
> from being defiled by carrion
> beasts until a delegation from the enemy can
> come and claim the
> bodies.  It's a rather maladaptive strategy in
> warfare, but it is important
> to them to act in a civilized manner.
Wow. Daine don't see it as defilement to clean up
and dress their beloved dead appropirately. And
unless they're in a hurry, would see it as
something less than dignified to bring an end to
the body in tatty, blood-n-guts spattered
clothes.

> >Daine hunters don't mind tackling such
> >beasties at times!
>
> Nor do these people.  Hey, one of those
> creatures carries a load of good
> beef, and the horns are very useful as well.
> It's worth a little danger.
Naturally! Oliphaunts and hairy rhinoceros as
well. Amongst other things.

Padraic.


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