From pycyn@aol.com Sun Jul 22 15:10:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 22 Jul 2001 22:10:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 63099 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2001 22:10:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jul 2001 22:10:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d08.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.40) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Jul 2001 22:10:02 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id r.79.17e0d3ed (4254) for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:09:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <79.17e0d3ed.288ca936@aol.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:09:58 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: from the classics To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_79.17e0d3ed.288ca936_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8858 --part1_79.17e0d3ed.288ca936_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/22/2001 4:57:16 PM Central Daylight Time, cowan@mercury.ccil.org writes: > AFAIK the Brer Rabbit stories are Anansi (Spider) stories; the rabbit > motif was introduced by Eastern Indians, who used Rabbit as the > equivalent of the better known Coyote: the trickster spirit. > Makes sense. I have several told about Rabbit and Leopard and said to be from someplace in the armpit of Africa (U forget where), but they may have been "adapted." Using Coyote models (or, even better, Raven) would allow the dirty stories more scope. --part1_79.17e0d3ed.288ca936_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/22/2001 4:57:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
cowan@mercury.ccil.org writes:


AFAIK the Brer Rabbit stories are Anansi (Spider) stories; the rabbit
motif was introduced by Eastern Indians, who used Rabbit as the
equivalent of the better known Coyote: the trickster spirit.


Makes sense.  I have several told about Rabbit and Leopard and said to be
from someplace in the armpit of Africa (U forget where), but they may have
been "adapted."  Using Coyote models (or, even better, Raven) would allow the
dirty stories more scope. --part1_79.17e0d3ed.288ca936_boundary--