tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41505072024-03-18T22:40:20.214-06:00Odious and PeculiarPhilology and esoterica: scribblings, ravings and mutterings.<p></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.comBlogger1988125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-49875349132010591342023-11-05T17:53:00.000-07:002023-11-05T17:53:02.097-07:00<p>A real musical oddity from the French Baroque: <a href="https://hekint.org/2017/01/30/surgery-note-by-note-marin-marais-tableau-de-loperation-de-la-taille/"><i>Tableau de l’Opération de la Taille</i>, i.e. Scene of Cutting for the Stone</a> by Marin Marais.</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Tableau de l’Opération de la Taille</i> begins with a somber section in the key of E minor and tempo marking Lentem (slowly), freely performed. It is followed by a contrasting lively piece titled <i>Les Relevailles</i> in the key of E major, tempo marking Gay, joyously celebrating the patient’s return to life. The score is annotated in considerable detail, guiding the performer in what the music is attempting to convey. As Joseph Kiefer accurately observes: “The music successfully depicts the apprehension, fear, agitation, and other emotions of the patient as well as the mounting tension of the operation itself, building up to the climactic extraction of the stone.”<i>Les Relevailles</i> is etymologically of particular interest. It refers to an ancient ritual that designates a period after delivery when the mother needs to regain her strength. Historically this period lasted 40 days and may be related to the religious ceremony known as “churching.”</p></blockquote>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVH0qoJZDho?si=mO5A8mvc1iaxpcEJ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-33407962419062566182023-09-04T18:00:00.008-06:002023-09-04T18:01:24.126-06:00<p><a href="https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html">What Tenochtitlan looked like</a></p><p>HT: <a href="https://languagehat.com/a-portrait-of-tenochtitlan/">Languagehat</a><br /></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-17667829351413969342023-07-18T09:40:00.003-06:002023-07-18T09:40:09.971-06:00<p> Dealing with dinosaurs: Darren Naish recounts cassowary wrangling.<br /><br />Including a note for the speculative fiction crowd: "Cassowaries themselves might think of us as slightly unusual members of
cassowary kind. Keep this in mind when imagining a hypothetical zoo
housing non-bird dinosaurs. At least some such animals would likely
become sexually fixated on humans."</p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-33442086420134484342023-05-11T21:20:00.001-06:002023-05-11T21:20:51.098-06:00<p> The smurfs are an obvious reference to the Barallot heresy. Gargamel represents the Dominicans.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-4744165465225002942023-04-20T10:35:00.002-06:002023-04-20T10:35:07.682-06:00<p></p><blockquote>Huchen and taimen appetites have also found their way into folklore. Ainu stories from Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido speak of monstrous taimen (known as chirai in Ainu) large and voracious enough to eat deer, bear, and humans whole. In Mongolia, legend tells of an especially harsh winter when starving herdsmen discovered a giant taimen trapped in river ice. Relieved to find food, the herdsmen chopped off pieces of its flesh. They survived the winter, but when the river ice melted in spring, the giant taimen came onto the land, tracked them down, and ate them all.</blockquote><p></p><p>More <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367245223_What_the_Taimen_Said_An_Urgent_Call_for_Conservation_of_the_World's_Largest_Salmonids">taimen lore and biogeography here</a>.</p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-37036077228075000632023-04-08T08:10:00.004-06:002023-04-08T08:10:29.819-06:00<p><a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2332/new-nasa-map-details-2023-and-2024-solar-eclipses-in-the-us/" target="_blank"> 2024 total eclipse map</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-76067269669882295372023-03-09T18:52:00.002-07:002023-03-09T18:52:17.542-07:00<p><a href="https://hard-sci-fi.blogspot.com/2023/03/science-binary-star-sundial.html" target="_blank"> Sundial for a binary star system.</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-23995141634312469092023-01-18T10:37:00.000-07:002023-01-18T10:37:15.919-07:00<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "Two or three years ago they were just another<a href="https://vectors.substack.com/p/the-snake-cult-of-consciousness" target="_blank"> snake cult.</a>"</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To believe that psychedelics had a central role in our evolution I would need to see them at the center of religious iconography regarding knowledge and creation worldwide. And this would have to be the case from the beginning. This seems like an impossibly high bar to clear.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">And yet, this is true of snakes, which are worshiped all across the globe, and have been from the beginning. One strange coincidence is how often they are associated with knowledge, despite having a peanut for a brain. What no one has noticed is that snakes themselves contain a hallucinogen: their venom. I argue that there was an ancient psychedelic snake cult concerned with selfhood from which modern snake symbolism descends.</span></p></blockquote><p> Filed under "sure, why not?".</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-21694128045849155512023-01-12T10:04:00.003-07:002023-01-12T10:04:32.131-07:00<p><a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/anniversaire-de-tintin-cinq-mots-qui-ont-change-de-sens-sous-la-plume-d-herge-20230110">Anniversaire de Tintin: cinq mots qui ont changé de sens sous la plume d’Hergé</a></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-1758135465957521822022-12-31T09:45:00.001-07:002022-12-31T10:11:19.252-07:00<p> I missed this when it dropped, but there's an <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dd9q" target="_blank">examination of St Brides</a> done by the Assume Nothing podcast. I've not far in, but so far it is relatively unsensationalized.</p><p>Their own summary:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Ireland, 1984. St Brides School for young ladies opens its doors in the quiet fishing village of Burtonport, county Donegal -- but all is not as it seems.</p><p>The mistress and 'girls' appear to believe that they live not only in a different century, but in an entirely different world.</p><p>They are The Silver Sisterhood...</p></blockquote><p>Most of the St Brides games may be found on Internet Archive. If you like that sort of thing, they are the sort of thing that you will like. </p><p>Happy New Year! </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-75915654171169841642022-12-04T18:29:00.006-07:002022-12-04T18:29:57.715-07:00<p><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-8185-3_41" target="_blank">The Computer: Ruin of Science and Threat to Mankind</a></p><p>File under "well, not wrong".</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1599535298249371648" target="_blank">(ht)</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-40926955797138346902022-12-01T15:27:00.004-07:002022-12-01T20:18:51.274-07:00<p>As do so many, I have occasionally wondered about the idiom <i>tace is Latin for a candle</i>. <a href="https://wordhistories.net/2017/04/22/tace-is-latin-for-candle/">Here is the phrase's history</a>, though its logic is no clearer than before. At least I now know how it's traditionally pronounced: /ˈteɪsiː/ (generally with a Monty Python accent, I trust). </p><p>Related and perhaps even stranger:
</p><blockquote>The usual explanation of brandy is Latin for a goose is that it must be read as What is the Latin for goose? (The answer is) brandy, with a pun on the word answer: the homophonous Latin noun anser means goose, and brandy was drunk as a digestive after the eating of goose, in the same way as an answer follows a question.
A variant, brandy is Latin for fish, first appeared with the following explanation in London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1851), by Henry Mayhew (1812-87), English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform:
<blockquote>We are told that the thirst and uneasy feeling at the stomach, frequently experienced after the use of the richer species of fish, have led to the employment of spirit to this kind of food. Hence, says Dr. Pereira, the vulgar proverb, “Brandy is Latin for Fish.”</blockquote></blockquote><p>Via <a href="https://languagehat.com/latin-for-a-candle/">Languagehat</a>, of course. <br /></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-8237957089802081662022-11-08T12:04:00.002-07:002022-11-08T12:04:25.377-07:00<p> Via Odious: King of the Hill dubbed into Tocharian. You're welcome.</p><p><br /></p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fNe6nke1HFk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-56084562324995004492022-10-28T16:10:00.000-06:002022-10-28T16:10:02.197-06:00<p><a href="https://dailynous.com/2022/10/28/found-five-boxes-of-new-hegel/" target="_blank"> More Hegel discovered</a>. Just what we need?</p><p>I spent a fairly pleasant winter a couple decades ago 'working' at around 12,000 ft., mostly just reading Phenomenology of Spirit in a small shelter with a propane heater that had a minor leak--which only enhanced the hypoxic environment. I still have my notes but they look like marginalia from Miskatonic University.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-41808978142048967072022-09-24T09:35:00.005-06:002022-09-24T09:35:52.827-06:00<p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-plant-eaten-extinction-2000-years-ago-silphion" target="_blank"> Silphion</a> discovered growing in Turkey (maybe).</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-50732114231729122582022-09-12T09:47:00.003-06:002022-09-12T09:47:26.661-06:00<p> Razib Khan's <a href="https://take.quiz-maker.com/QEU2UTJ23" target="_blank">latest quiz</a>. Median score is 16. I got 27, and felt pretty good about it.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-79871646072747297462022-08-26T09:56:00.002-06:002022-08-26T09:56:28.632-06:00<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJrCn-y16Vs" target="_blank">Scruton on architecture</a>, at St. John's.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-7658252655288993822021-12-07T11:39:00.002-07:002021-12-07T11:39:11.484-07:00<p></p><blockquote>Rumor has it that McCartney would have played Frodo, George Harrison
would’ve portrayed Gandalf, Ringo Starr would’ve been Sam, and, funnily
enough, John Lennon would have played Gollum.</blockquote><p></p><p>Fortunately, Tolkien himself had the wisdom to cast <a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653117/when-beatles-wanted-star-lord-rings-movie">this idea</a> into the fires of Orodruin.<br /></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-71686968679617248912021-11-08T10:41:00.000-07:002021-11-08T10:41:05.571-07:00<p><br /></p><p></p><p><img alt="" 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/></p><p></p><p>Multiocular O - just going to quote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O">Wikipedia</a>:<br /><br /><b></b></p><blockquote><b>Multiocular O</b> (<span class="script-Cyrs" title="Slavonic">ꙮ</span>) is an exotic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> variant of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a> letter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_(Cyrillic)" title="O (Cyrillic)">O</a>. This glyph variant can be found in certain manuscripts in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic" title="Old Church Slavonic">Old Church Slavonic</a> phrase "<span class="script-Cyrs" lang="cu-Cyrl" title="Slavonic">серафими многоꙮчитїи</span>" (<i lang="cu-Latn" title="Church Slavonic-language romanization">serafimi mnogoočitii</i>, "many-eyed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraph" title="Seraph">seraphim</a>").</blockquote><p>There are apparently other instances of Old Church Slavonic scribes playing around thus, rather like people dotting their i-s with little hearts or me turning the letter S into a python given the slightest excuse. </p><p>Hat tip: Odious. <br /></p><p></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-69838849723695193442021-10-19T13:59:00.002-06:002021-10-19T13:59:28.352-06:00<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l9vs7dKHbvBsikBE-sJrODp5ussejDslg" target="_blank"> Highlander: a Celtic Opera</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes. That <i>Highlander</i>. Not, frankly, recommended except as a curiosity.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-90441501922809817692021-09-07T15:57:00.003-06:002021-09-07T15:57:14.212-06:00<p> Today I learned: <a href="https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/euclid-translators/">the first English translation of Euclid included pop-ups for 3-D proofs</a>. (I was fact checking a claim that John Dee was the translator. No, but he wrote the preface and did some editing.)<br /></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-21972198965435133852021-09-07T10:11:00.004-06:002021-09-07T10:11:25.789-06:00<p> <a href="https://sustain.round.glass/photo-story/sloth-bear-india/">Sloth bears!</a> (with excellent photographs)<br /></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-5450322403560657482021-08-11T17:11:00.001-06:002021-08-11T17:11:04.225-06:00<p></p><blockquote><p> The Ambracian gulf is a lowland lament with brekekekex! from Preveza, koax! from Amphilochia and an answering koax! from across the mountains from Missolonghi.</p><p>-Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli, Travels in Northern Greece</p></blockquote><p><br /></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-90514176452744368352021-06-17T23:12:00.005-06:002021-06-18T17:01:50.147-06:00<div><a href="https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf" target="_blank"> This article</a> details--no, it doesn't summarize well. Here's an entrée:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Out of this group would arise several radical separatist movements with overlapping membership, including a religious one called Lux Madriana—worshiping a female god with rituals supposedly passed down from a “magical matriarchal community” in a distant past—and an elaborately fleshed-out otherworld called <a href="http://www.aristasia-central.com/">Aristasia</a>. Much like the rich fantasy worlds created by Tolkien or the Brontë sisters, Aristasia became an ever-growing obsession for its creators, with its own customs, calendar, literature, and history, to the extent that some of the worldbuilders eventually dropped out of university to attend their own unofficial Aristasian school instead. In Aristasia there were two genders, both female (assertive brunettes and demure blondes); the decadent modern world was known as The Pit; and the word for person was not man but maid."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">ht <a href="https://emshort.blog/2021/06/15/mid-june-link-assortment-6/" target="_blank">Emily Short</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">FURTHER: A short, somewhat melancholy <a href="https://www.maddiviner.com/post/119972693273/whats-aristasia-a-long-post-my-experiences-and" target="_blank">history of Aristasia-in-Telluria</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-11693983106192681262021-04-06T12:26:00.001-06:002021-04-06T12:26:30.038-06:00<p>Washington, man... where cattle rustling is white-collar crime.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nwpb.org/2021/01/27/paper-rustling-major-washington-cattle-operator-allegedly-fed-200k-cattle-that-didnt-exist/">Exhibit A</a>:</p><p></p><blockquote>Cody Easterday, has admitted to a scheme in which Defendant [Easterday]
has falsified records and submitted fictitious invoices in order to
defraud Plaintiff [Tyson] out of more than $225 million. Among other
things, Defendant has manufactured documents in order to hide the fact
that it was reporting to Plaintiff approximately 200,000 cattle that
simply did not exist</blockquote><p></p><p><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.waed.95045/gov.uscourts.waed.95045.1.0_2.pdf">Exhibit B</a>: </p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></p><blockquote>A
newly filed federal lawsuit alleges WSU researchers stole blood samples
and trade secrets used in a proprietary genetic test to rate the beef
tenderness of cows prior to slaughter.</blockquote><p></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Re. the latter I will note that the term "Callipyge Gene" is really wasted in being applied to tenderness of beef.<br /></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span></p>Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.com1