*Ø* Blogmanac October 29 | Today's thingummies

Allan Day
‘Allan’ is an old English term for ‘apple’. If you eat a very large apple first thing on waking today, without speaking a word, you will dream of your future mate. I suppose it’s a bit late now. Mark it in your diary for next year.




Rebirth: Scarlet macaw, Mayan calendar“Mayan: This day begins the Uinal of Rebirth, the eleventh of the 20-day Uinals in the current cycle of the Tzolkin, or 260-day calendar (6 Imix, Tzolkin 201). The symbolic bird for this uinal is the Scarlet Macaw, the energy principle that of flowering.”
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Iroquois Feast of the Dead
A Native American festival akin to All Soul’s Day of the Christian tradition. Traditionally held every 12 years in honour of departed loved ones, the dead are reinterred and revered, with a huge grave dug and lined with beaver skins.

Earth, Moon and Sky informs us that the tribe calls themselves the ‘Haudenosaunee’ meaning ‘people of the long house.’ The Algonquin word 'Iroqu' (Irinakhoiw), which means 'rattlesnake,' was combined by the French with the suffix 'ois' to form the name 'Iroquois,' as an insult.

Strange!

I was looking for a Scarlet macaw image and at this page of Google Image Search I clicked on the second bird:

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200 x 150 pixels - 6k
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But what I got was a bit of a surprise – to say the least. I hope it works for you – tell me if it does. (Maybe don't do it in the office.)