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Post by dingotookmybaby on Dec 4, 2004 6:07:06 GMT -5
Kutkh, the great raven-god of the Koryak, dropped a feather as he flew over the earth, thus was created Kamchatka. At first the land was only populated by men, then Kutkh created a woman. She was very beautiful and all the men fell in love with her and desired her. As the men died they became mountains whose hearts still burnt with a fiery love - thus were created the volcanoes of Kamchatka. Contrasting this with the following eyewitness account of life in ecuador at the same time Pre-Spanish Ecuador was inhabited by a number of diverse Indian peoples who were, for the most part, sedentary agriculturistswe can see that the ecuadorians were a loose grouping of patriarchal agarian societies indulging in loose small scale economic activity whereas the Kamchatka were basically a bunch of lava spewing living-dead with lava spewing hearts lusting after the same chick, who as far as I can tell didn't end up putting out causing the men to cark it.. serves them right for setting up shop on a feather I say
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Post by Aussie on Dec 4, 2004 6:50:21 GMT -5
And you guys wanted him to start posting again?
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Post by dingotookmybaby on Dec 4, 2004 7:30:27 GMT -5
freeloading at someone elses house now are we?
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Post by Aussie on Dec 4, 2004 7:36:06 GMT -5
And where were you in the ACT? Hmmmmmmmmmm?
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Post by dingotookmybaby on Dec 4, 2004 7:39:10 GMT -5
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Post by Punto on Dec 4, 2004 12:43:41 GMT -5
Mr Baby, I am very taken with your background reading, however, and this is a point I raise many times with students, you have strayed from the initial point which was political activity. Whilst I appreciate the insight on Kamchatkan social bonding, and its underpinnings (which may, I accept, be construed as loose political beliefs), and the economic life of Central and Northern South America (if you do not object to the modernistic geographical labellings) I fear that this particular piece misses the central theme. However given that you have obviously undertaken this work under some degree of stress and pressure I award you 50%.
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Post by dingotookmybaby on Mar 3, 2005 4:37:33 GMT -5
I rule the boards again!!!! bugger me erzsebet's a weird fish. 22/11/2004... the night before a monumental hangover I'd say
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Post by wowposter on Nov 8, 2008 9:33:52 GMT -5
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