--- In [email protected], "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, Sparaig, what is the background on the moniker, Sparaig? > Sparrow is cool and seemingly related to Sparaig, but I've always > been puzzled by it. If you don't mind my asking, that is. > > Marek
Sparrow was short for Sparrowhawk, the wizard in Usala K. LeGuinn's Earthsea series. I tried to use it as my SCA name but was veoted. Sparrow seemed acceptable, at least unoffcially. Sparaig was chosen because it was Celtic. I THOUGHT it meant Sparrowhawk, but apparently only means Sparrow, at least according to all the etymological sources I can now find. Evangeline autographed my copies of the Mabinogion with "For Sparrow, who thinks he is a bird." Those were stolen by my roommate in the USAF (typical). > > ** > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > I'd wonder whether the reason so few women are > > > > > in the historical record as having achieved > > > > > enlightenment is not because so few women actually > > > > > achieved enlightenment, but rather because so few > > > > > who did were noted as having done so in the > > > > > historical record--either because they weren't > > > > > mentioned at all by the men who wrote the record, > > > > > or because these men didn't recognize or didn't > > > > > bother to note or even actively suppressed that > > > > > information. > > > > > > > > > > Some feminists use the term "herstory" to refer > > > > > to women's history to emphasize that the standard > > > > > records, largely written by men ("HIS-story"), > > > > > have tended to ignore women. > > > > > > > > > Yep- agreed. It is also just the enlightened *teachers* who > tend to > > > > make it into the books and historical records. There are many > more > > > > enlightened men and women who just do their thing and pass on, > > > > unrecorded. > > > > > > I should add that in a hypothetical matriarchal > > > society whose records were written by women, it > > > would probably appear that there were very few > > > enlightened *men*. > > > > > > > You'd have to go back to before the Mabinogion to find that kind of > nonsense... > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogi > > > > > > note: Evangeline Walton was a dear friend, so take the "nonsense" > comment as irony. She > > knew me as "sparrow" rather than sparaig. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline_Walton > > >
