XPost: soc.culture.native, nz.soc.maori, alt.culture.inuit   
   XPost: mex.indigena, alt.religion.shamanism   
   From: dalton.nfld@gmail.com   
      
   Here is a post from the thread "Mary walks" on   
   alt.religion.druid that might be of interest to   
   some on these groups, if any are reading now or   
   in the future:   
      
   Also, while this thread is titled "Mary walks", it could   
   be titled "Anne walks".   My great niece's middle name   
   is Anne, her mom's middle name is Anne, and the middle   
   name (which she goes by) of her mom (my sister, who   
   raised me after our parents died and was like a mother   
   to me and was a virgin for the first while) is Anne,   
   and we also had an Aunt Anne and have a first cousin Anne.   
   Also Sarah McLachlan's middle name is Ann, and the second   
   name of her daughter India is Ann.  And Jesus's grandmother   
   was named Anne or Anna.   So this is for all the Annes.   
      
   Also Pope Francis will visit Lac Ste. Anne on July 26,   
   the feast day of St. Anne, who is a very important   
   figure for indigenous Christians and for those who follow   
   a fusion of traditional indigenous spirituality and Christianity.   
   (There is a large annual pilgrimage to the lake during the   
   week of  July 26, and it will be even larger than usual   
   this year.   
      
   And probably my father, who played fiddle and mandolin,   
   played St. Anne's Reel.   
      
   So July 26 is the name day of all the Annes mentioned   
   above, other than Jesus's grandmother for whom it was   
   her death day or saint day.  The name day is very important   
   in European culture but is less celebrated in North America.   
      
   Also, in the 1990s (maybe 1993?) I attended a movie double   
   bill at The Ridge Theatre in Vancouver.   One movie was   
   about indigenous resistance to low-flying flights in   
   Labrador.  The other movie was about a People of the   
   Orca, I think on Vancouver Island, and was hosted by   
   their chief, who had two attractive daughters who handed   
   out posters.   And at one point the chief made a comment   
   about David and Anne or Anne and David, and I thought he   
   was referring to me and my sister but perhaps he was   
   just referring to some children's books/school books   
   that feature David and Anne.   But perhaps the blocks   
   have not been airtight.   
      
   Also, at the same movie theatre I saw the Romany movie   
   Latcho Drom and thought I heard my name at the end   
   of the movie, but perhaps I was mistaken.  But again   
   perhaps the blocks have not been airtight (if they   
   were I would have no readers).   
      
   Another significant indigenous presence was the woman   
   chief at a Friends of Clayoquot Sound benefit at   
   The Commodore Ballroom in I think 1992, with headliners   
   Sarah McLachlan backed by Ashwin Sood.  Though Sarah   
   had influenced me strongly before then, it was that   
   night that I fell for her, so I think she had started   
   having orgasms not long before then (I am not attracted   
   to bifs who have not had an orgasm).   
      
   And it could be that the old fisherman whose net I pulled   
   on after my naked sun stare was (is?) Musqueam, though   
   perhaps he was (is?) Greek Canadian and possibly pagan.   
   Anywat it was on Tower Beach or perhaps between Spanish   
   Banks West and Tower Beach, anyway a bit east of the   
   easternmost of the two towers, on Sept. 5, 1991.  And when   
   I first arrived in Vancouver in early September, 1985 I   
   thought I was walking from UBC to Safeway on West 10th   
   but got lost and wandered all the way to the edge of   
   the Musqueam reserve.   First I saw the bright white   
   clapboard houses that reminded me of rural Newfoundland   
   and was going to proceed and ask for directions, but then   
   I saw the no trespassing sign and turned around, and the   
   feeling I was on stolen ground I think contributed some   
   to my long mild depression of 1986.  Other than that I   
   think my only contact with Musqueams was with a woman   
   selling bannock at the entrance to the Museum of Anthropology   
   at UBC, though also there were indigenous people selling   
   barbecued salmon at the full moon 1990 Celtica Festival,   
   and I played softball with the W.I.S.E. Club   
   team against the Hooligans (play on the fish oolichans)   
   who had one attractive player who I think is indigenous,   
   in 1994 and 1995.  Also one extreme late night I had   
   no money and was walking home to Kitsilano from the   
   W.I.S.E. Club in East Van and an indigenous man asked   
   me for change and I gave him my last dime (which has   
   an image of the Bluenose on it, which represents Sarah   
   for me).   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   ³Mary walks down to the water¹s edge and there she hangs Her head to   
   find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)