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Are you here with the living? Are you back with the dead?
The dead who were buried in boats, among sex and sand:
As the Chinese archaeologists dug through the five layers of burials, Dr. Mair recounted, they came across almost 200 poles, each 13 feet tall. Many had flat blades, painted black and red, like the oars from some great galley that had foundered beneath the waves of sand.
"A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets."
As the Chinese archaeologists dug through the five layers of burials, Dr. Mair recounted, they came across almost 200 poles, each 13 feet tall. Many had flat blades, painted black and red, like the oars from some great galley that had foundered beneath the waves of sand.
"A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets."
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Oh, God. I hadn't even considered that angle, but you're right: as soon as the blue eyes and fair hair show up, the internet explodes . . .
(I love your icon.)
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Word. Years ago I got interested in the question of Indo-European-derived vocabulary in Old Chinese, and had the worst time finding anything on the subject (especially because some git had every relevant volumes of the Journal of Indo-European Studies checked out of the library at my then uni for the entire year that I was there, but I digress...) that wasn't either vile, dubious, or both.
Of course, I was extremely displeased to find out that one LJ community with certain of my interests listed as its interests was some den of British-Israelite vermin, so I suppose that sort of thing is, to some degree, unavoidable.