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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 6:25:19 GMT
Post by glassminotaur on Dec 22, 2010 6:25:19 GMT
Very little verifiable information seems to be immediately available in regards to this mythological character. The first and only direct source on Google seems to be from pantheon.org. What gives?
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 7:10:40 GMT
Post by fronzel on Dec 22, 2010 7:10:40 GMT
Native American mythology isn't very well known?
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 7:36:15 GMT
Post by Yin on Dec 22, 2010 7:36:15 GMT
Or at least, not very well-recorded/discussed.
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 12:41:16 GMT
Post by Mister Always on Dec 22, 2010 12:41:16 GMT
And uh, if I'm not wrong (which I so often am), I think there was a lot of diversity between the personal mythologies of every clan (tribe? What's the term here).
So it's kind of like a certain monotheistic religion we all know. *trollface.jpg*
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 12:50:55 GMT
Post by jayne on Dec 22, 2010 12:50:55 GMT
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amanmademonster
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That's not a nice thing to say about a nun
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 16:54:15 GMT
Post by amanmademonster on Dec 22, 2010 16:54:15 GMT
Native American Egyptian North America mythology isn't very well known? fixed PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS POST!
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 16:59:09 GMT
Post by jayne on Dec 22, 2010 16:59:09 GMT
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 20:35:02 GMT
Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Dec 22, 2010 20:35:02 GMT
The lack of proper records regarding the beliefs and ways of my ancestors ANGERS MEEEEEE.
Well, it makes me sad at times.
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 20:59:56 GMT
Post by legion on Dec 22, 2010 20:59:56 GMT
Go back in time and teach writing to your ancestors. Problem solved!
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 21:20:51 GMT
Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Dec 22, 2010 21:20:51 GMT
It's not just that. There have been some chances to write it down proper, but the opportunities were squandered. You can probably still find some stuff passed down the old fashion way too.. but no one has bothered to get on to collecting it hardcore.
Though perhaps part of it is just unwillingness to share. The history of the natives isn't exactly.. good.. after the colonies formed. My own great grandfather (or is it great great? always forget..) decided to not register as a native, thus forfeiting his right to payback for the past, simply to stop his descendants from being discriminated against for being natives. To help hammer the gravity of what he did, I'm fairly certain I can't get college aid for being native American because of it too.
He sort of just.. disowned himself from his whole culture. It was that bad.
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Muut
Dec 22, 2010 21:33:58 GMT
Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Dec 22, 2010 21:33:58 GMT
Eh, sorry for being blabby.
I've just been thinking on it more than usual ever since I started reading Gunnerkrigg. Every time Coyote or Mutt show up, it's a reminder about how much I wish my family had remained in touch. Now there is very little to do about it. None of us have any sort of connections.
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Muut
Dec 23, 2010 3:03:25 GMT
Post by jayne on Dec 23, 2010 3:03:25 GMT
On a related note... when you get the chance, write down your parents stories, or get them recorded somehow. Now that both my parents are gone, its up to the kids to keep those stories alive. They're important even when they don't seem all that important.
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amanmademonster
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That's not a nice thing to say about a nun
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Muut
Dec 24, 2010 4:55:53 GMT
Post by amanmademonster on Dec 24, 2010 4:55:53 GMT
Oh yeah, I got him mixed up with Mut
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Muut
Dec 24, 2010 5:17:19 GMT
Post by Tobu Ishi on Dec 24, 2010 5:17:19 GMT
The lack of proper records regarding the beliefs and ways of my ancestors ANGERS MEEEEEE. Well, it makes me sad at times. I know it doesn't even begin to compare with the wholesale campaign of cultural destruction that was unleashed on native Americans both northern and southern, but...sometimes I feel wistful when I think of how much was lost when the Romans conquered the Picts without documenting much about them. I love body art and I'd be so proud to decorate myself with woad, if there were any real records of what it looked like or how it was done. (And no, new-agey stuff that borrows as much from fantasy novels as anything doesn't count.) So, you know...my sympathies, literally and figuratively.
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Muut
Dec 26, 2010 0:55:16 GMT
Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Dec 26, 2010 0:55:16 GMT
Awh..
Maybe we can send you some woad this Christmas. Er.. well.. maybe next Christmas anyway.
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Spike
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Muut
Dec 26, 2010 3:17:54 GMT
Post by Spike on Dec 26, 2010 3:17:54 GMT
Ah, there we go. "Muut The messenger of death in the Cahuilla Native American belief."
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