(urth) Where did Abaia go?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Sticka you arm in a crack
Whena you don't get it back
That's a moray.

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>
> In my last post under Patera Inire (which has a typo- should start- "I
> don't agree")
> I mention an allegorical answer I think best for explaining how an
> ocean-bound
> creature like Abaia could be destroyed by a flood.
>
> But for those who don't see Judeo-Christianity in this story, I will offer
> a more
> textual explanation. Perhaps Abaia doesn't really live in the ocean. Abaia
> is the
> name for a magical *freshwater* eel in Melanesian mythology. So perhaps
> a flood could kill off Abaia simply via contact with salt water.
>
> Abaia's most likely freshwater home would surely be Lake Diuturna. We have
> the
> similarity of the name to Juturna, the daughter-bride of Abaia. We have
> (perhaps
> aspiring megatherian) Baldanders choosing to live near and eventually
> under the
> waters of this lake. The Lake/Island people have their belief in a fish
> god
> beneath the waters. But perhaps the best evidence for the presence of
> Abaia is
> the Lake/Shore people's town which is named "Murene". This Latin derived,
> Germanic
> word basically means "moray eel" (which does include freshwater versions).
>
>
> (sorry if this idea had been posted before. If so I hadn't seen it)
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