Most intriguing! I have to plead clueless on the origin. Thanks!
--- phanero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as demigods with tats that lack great art > > hmm, do you know the origin of the word 'totem' > It might interest you to know that in 1790 a man > named John Long came to London with an initiatory > tattoo of the Ojibwe.. The man had lived with the > Ojibwe > and had killed Americans with them in the > revolutionary > skirmishes. He called his beaver tattoo > a 'totem'.. which essentially means in Ojibwe > 'a member of my family' or something like that.. > the word has essentially had a life of its own ever > since.. > > i'm sure the image was rude, but it was probably the > first beaver most english had ever seen.. > > now how we get from an Ojibwe beaver totem tattoo > word-meme > to "beaver shots" at "U-Totem" is anybody's guess.. > > How did we get that version of Beaver? > Do you know? > > lq > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sheila Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:37 AM > Subject: River Wax > > > > May margins hold your dross of choice > > and limbo well accrue toward cushioning > > reflexive motion passing for accomplishment. > > > > May tacit bravery be known as the Wallendas > > showing off their grammar and good taste > > while we sip sap as if such slush > > might offer needed quietude. > > > > May toffy taste of supple young momentum > > dreamed along moist atmosphere of wood > > and mood and synthesis. > > > > May distance pacify your tendency > > to live long sans lungs glutted > > with spores accumulating > > as the gulls of dream go by > > and timbre just resuscitates > > the drive-by natterings still short on cash > > as demigods with tats that lack great art > > > > May wind be met by gravity that holds > > the sun in place where practice > > churns redacted feeling > > soon shoved out on stage to be consumed > > or poked by regulation sticks and storied stones > > that once flanked riverbed > > where tones of motion thinned > > receptive earshot. > > > > sheila e. murphy > > >
