(urth) Where did Abaia go?

[David Stockhoff]

Never mind---I suppose there is no point in that.

David Stockhoff wrote:
> Could "Diuturna" be pronounced "Juturna"?
>
> Lee Berman wrote:
>> 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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