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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 06 June 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Traditions</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Larry wrote under "History":</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Curiously the number four is considered unlucky in a great many Asian countries including the south of India and Sri Lanka.</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I wonder if this has anything to do with the long history of Indo-European trinity traditions and avoidance of small even numbers that are representations of "perfection" unbefitting mere mortals (for instance in Japanese art). (Uh-oh! I suspect I got you going now, John.)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Aside from the Christian Trinity, there are traditions such as that of three-headed gods, going all the way west to ancient Western Slavs with their God Triglav ("Three-Head"). In Buddhism there is the threefold basis of
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Buddha - Dharma - Sangha</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> ("Awakened One - Way/Teaching - Community") which may be in part inspired by earlier Indian traditions.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sjswelch@yahoo.com.au" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">john welch</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sjswelch@yahoo.com.au">sjswelch@yahoo.com.au</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.05 (07) [A/E]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcel, Mark,<br><br><strong><em>Ich nicht sprechte, aber diese scheine interressant.
</em></strong></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><strong><em>Could someone tell me the main idea of this post?</em></strong></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"..Kom ons kyk na Woedan, die As, heer van die gode. Hy is die god van die storm en van die slagveld,..."
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">merci beaucoup</div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"> <div>John<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_wkv@home.nl" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">
wim <<a href="mailto:wkv@home.nl">wkv@home.nl</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span> <span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.05 (05) [E/LS]
<br><p><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Hi,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Not Moses, Jacob had the
animals with and without the spots, they were goats i think.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Its in the story about,
how he got his wife. ( wives) </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="DE">Wim (</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:wkv@home.nl" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span lang="DE">wkv@home.nl</span></a></span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font><span lang="DE">Zwolle NL.)</span></p>
[Wim Verdoold]<br>
<p><font style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" size="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">There are towns with spijk in holland too, and in Zeeland. <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spijkenisse" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spijkenisse</a></span></font><br></p></div></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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