Polynesian Music Mix

For Fun! Dang!
http://www.imeem.com/mediatracker/

This is for my own pleasure, so don't make fun...

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid403535664/bclid412470040/bctid18502730


I've forgotten how I love Ricky Martin, i hope he's keeping his nose clean...

Yo yo dawg check these out!

http://www.dailymotion.com/Polynesie-francaise/1

Bobby holcomb was Sean and Adam's f.avorite artist in Tahiti. Mine was Andy Tupaia.
Oops! Kinda risky there... this link might be better for uninterrupted Tahitian music.
http://www.polynesiepassion.net/fr/page122.php

Symboles de la République et 14 juillet - La Marseillaise -Ministère des Affaires étrangères-

Symboles de la République et 14 juillet - La Marseillaise -Ministère des Affaires étrangères-

La Marseillaise

La Marseillaise

Présidence de la Polynésie française - Le drapeau et l'hymne

Présidence de la Polynésie française - Le drapeau et l'hymne

Nursing Mothers

In the light of what I have written in the "Deception"section Oct 16, 06(quoted below for the viewer) I would like to elaborate on this peculiarity due to additional information. This is what I wrote:

"A french man described the Papeete quay, at his arrival, in the early 1800's, as an incredible blinding array of shocking bright colored fragrant flowers and fruits, and splashes of islands wraps, and all sorts of hats, baseball like hats made of plaited coconut fibers, or visors with their hair pulled through the open top for the younger radicals, while most of the women shaded themselves with wide brim pandanus straw hats casting shadows on their sleeping nursing children or, to his horrific delight, on the piglets or puppies nursing at their breasts! They gave a new meaning to nourishing pets!"

Well, this would not be a strange a sight for Nephi or Mornoni!

Let me explain. There has been many critics about Joseph Smith's mention of deer in the Book of Mormon, saying that Meso american did not have deer, and that he might surely have meant "goat or wild goat" for lack of a better word. And yet there are museums filled with artifacts with deer representations as sacred symbols, deer herds being tended by humankind, another one of which is the Mayan Calendar year of the deer.

In response to this "Insights" a FARMS newsletter for this month wrote an article entitled "Deer as "Goat" and Pre-Columbian Domesticate" and which is also quoted by Dr herman Smith in his article on ancient Maya Subsistence :

"The Ancient Maya, like all of the pre-Columbian people of the New World, relied on wild animals as a source of protein since domesticated animals were more the exception than the rule. When the first inhabitants came to the Western Hemisphere from Asia across the Bering Straits Land Bridge they brought only one domesticated animal; the dog. The dogs of the Maya were all descendants of this single strain and served as hunting companions and household early warning systems. It is probable that certain varieties of dogs were fattened and eaten as were dogs in ancient Central Mexico. In addition to the dog, the Maya evidently raised doves, turkeys and the Muscovy duck. They may have also managed or tended other animals as food such as the coatimundi and deer. Bishop Diego de Landa in the sixteenth century reported that the Maya women in the Yucatan would: "raise other animals and let the deer suck their breasts, by which means they raise them and make them so tame so they will never go into the woods."

Now the scene of seing a plethora of Tahitian ladies gaily nursing their pet piglets and dogs don't seem so strange and "sauvage"after all. It was a very good way to tame and fatten animals for the table. I think this is another way that the Polynesians can be traced back to South America and the Lehites.

According to the 16th century Spaniard historian Gomara, in Apalachicola(what is now known as the state of Florida) "there are very many deer that they raise in the house and they go with shepherds into the pasture, and they return to the corral at night.'

Another Spanish historian Peter Martyr d'Anghiera recorded further: "In all the regions they visited, the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle. These deer bring forth and nourish their young in the houses of the natives. During the daytime they wander freely through the woods in search of their food, and in the evening they come back to their little ones, who have been cared for, allowing themselves to be shut up in the courtyards and even to be milked, when they have suckled their fawns. The only milk the natives know is that of the does, from which they make cheese."

There you have it- A diessertation on Meso American Domesticated Deer Herds