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[UPDATE] The Scarlett Kite, 19th August 2005
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Sasuntsi Davit
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 		[UPDATE] The Scarlett Kite, 19th August 2005
Scarlett Kiteway wrote:

Friday, August 19, 2005
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Category: print, 05:11 PM

It's been a while since I've updated! With working at the Sentinel, everything in my life has got a bit... busy. It seems like I don't have any time to myself at all anymore. But, to keep up with the Earth media, here's an article from Der Spiegel. I'm glad they've noticed that Perplex City lives!

In other news, Brede, who I work with on The Column, asked me out this week! On a proper date, not just a friends thing. I've had a bit of a crush on him for a little while now, and I didn't think he'd ever notice me... Very Happy. It's a bit weird, because we're going away to Tanraga with another couple of friends in a few weeks time, but I think it'll be really great! Wheeeeee! Vacation and new guy in my life!

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:43 pm
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 		Tanraga? Is this a new location to us, or is it somewhere in PPC? If not... Expanding the game's horizon! =D

PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:34 pm
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AF wrote:
Tanraga? Is this a new location to us, or is it somewhere in PPC? If not... Expanding the game's horizon! =D


Don't know where it is, but Scarlett mentioned it in her blog once before already (August 5th entry). No, it doesn't seem to be the place where S and I met Smile
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 		Tanraga
Maybe it's somewhere sunny? After Googling Tanraga I found this Maori legend:

Mäui find fire
Mäui Tikitiki-a-Taranga loved playing with fire. He liked putting them out and he liked making them burn fiercely. One day he put out all the fires in the village. The people were angry and complained to Taranga, Mäui's mother. She called Mäui and said to him,
"the people are angry with you. I am too. There is no fire burning in the village. How are we going to cook our food and warm ourselves? You must go as quickly as you can to the old kuia, Mahuika, and ask her for some fire. She is a dangerous old woman so you had better be careful."

Mäui travelled down into the underworld. No one had offered to come with him for everyone was terrified of the spirits that lived there.

Mahuika lived alone. She never touched anything. When she did, it would burst into flames. Mäui found Mahuika sitting in front of her whare trying to eat a meal.
"Let me feed you," he said, and took his taiaha and scooped up the food on the spearhead. Mahuika ate and ate. When she had finished, Mäui took a shell and filled it with water. Then he held it to her lips so that she could drink. Mahuika was very thirsty.

"Welcome, Mäui Tikitiki-a-Taranga. I know why you are here. You wasted the fire in the world of light. How careless you are. Never mind. Because you have been kind to me, I shall give you what you want."
She lifted her hands and pulled off a fingernail. At once it burst into flame.
"Here, take it. Light your fire and bring it back to me."

Mäui took the fingernail and set off. As he carried it away a wicked little plan began to develop in his head. He dropped the fingernail into a stream and watched it hiss out of sight. He went back to Mahuika and told her that he had tripped and the fingernail had fallen into the stream. Mahuika smiled and said,
"that's all right Mäui Tikitiki-a-Taranga, I have plenty more. Here you are," and she gave him another fingernail.

Mäui did this many times and each time Mahuika gave him another fingernail. But when he returned for her last fingernail, Mahuika lost her temper.
"Enough!" shrieked Mahuika. "You die, little fire waster!"

And she threw the last fingernail at Mäui. Mäui flung himself upwards and turned into a hawk. He beat his wings rapidly and as he looked down he saw the ground below him explode in flames. He threw himself into the world of light but the fires of Mahuika still followed him crackling and snarling as they licked their way through the forest of Täne Mahuta.

High in the heavens the gods watched in astonishment as the fires leaped into the air after the fleeing hawk.
"It is Mäui Tikitiki-a-Tanraga," said Tawhiri Matea. "He needs our help."

So the wind roared over the raging fires and blew icy rain into the flames. Water rose up from the streams and fell on top of the burning trees. And far below the earth Ruamoko, the earthquake god, shook the ground until it split open, and then he swallowed the fires of Mahuika.

Mäui flew to his home and he dropped down beside his mother and took his own shape again. In his hand he held a glowing stick.
"You cannot go into the Underworld to get fire anymore. The way is closed to those who live. If you need fire again just look for the kaikomako tree and rub two of its twigs together."

In a faraway land hidden from the inquisitive eyes of a man Mahuika sat muttering to herself as she looked into the rivers of fire that ran past her.
"Pest!" she muttered. "Ratbag!"
"He'll never find me now!"

http://www.helsinki.fi/~ksiazkie/babel/maori/maui.html

Maybe it's nothing. BTW, I'm Kristian and I'm new here.

Kristian

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 		It is conwenient....very conwenient that she's off for a trip to Tanraga... Confused (I think this little guy looks more suspicious than confused...so that's what I mean)
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 		welcome, kristian Smile I found the same thing a while ago --- unfortunately, the word "tanraga" exists in that story excerpt only due to a typographical error (tanraga for taranga).

I think if there's anything in the name, it will be Sanskrit. Tan + raga. (offers up some very interesting interpretations - could easily point to geographic upheaval or a mythic base for the name).

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