(urth) Where did Abaia go?

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Sun Jul 18 06:31:15 PDT 2010


They are in fact alternate spellings.

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> 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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