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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:

> Celia! I would GIVE UP my satellite TV for a rainy afternoon!
>
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave

True story:

A woman I was acquainted with was doing her PhD at Syracuse in  
Anthropology.  She was on a summer field trip among the Myans in the  
Yucatan, Mexico.  It was the end of the summer, and she'd settled on  
the dry mud among the other women watching Don Carlos, the medicine  
man, do a rain dance. She'd been making notes in her ever present  
notebook about the dance and incantations that Don Carlos was doing:

" ... Don Carlos is dancing in a rough circle, doing an incantation  
in very old Myan while all the village is assembled in a big circle.   
I can catch an occasional word that's similar to the modern language,  
but I'm distracted from that as notice that many of the women are  
pulling their scarves up over their heads. I shield this notebook  
from the drops because beginning to sprinkle.

MY GOD... Don Carlos is making it RAIN!!! "

Roy