#post indo

[arkadifan]

Kurang dari 1 Menit Cair Saldo Tuk Penguna Baru dan Kamu Bisa Dapat Rp50.000 Perhari di Aplikasi Penghasil Uang Ini

[chomametchi]

sometimes language families fuck me up a bit. like hi we used to sit around the same fire and we saw the same birds flying south and our children climbed in the same trees but then we parted ways and now we might not understand each other at all but maybe we can still recognize each others words for the moon.

[levbolton]

[canisalbus]

I want you to know that your art is very important to me, and I'm very invested in all of the characters I have seen from you. Also, the discussion about Finnish and other languages having gendered words or not has been the last little push to get me to start learning Finnish which I think is fun.

I'm making this a little compilation post of all the language asks I got. Thank you for sharing, this was genuinely really interesting!

[leroibobo]

some of the architecture of zinder, niger. zinder rose from a small hausa village into an important center of trans-saharan trade during the 18th century, culmunating in it becoming the capital of the sultanate of damagaram in 1736.

[miku-meeku]

a lot of ppl in my country are suddenly making dol merch for comifuro convention wtf i didnt expect there to be a lot of dol merches bro im poor, i cant afford every single whitneys i see pls

LIKE PLEASE HAVE MERCY SCREAMS

WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THESE WHITNEY KEYCHAINS PLEASE

[respect-the-locals]

🐬Daily Cetacean Fact:🐬

Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise: This species lives in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and Bangladesh. At the western end, their range includes the length of the western coast of India and continues up into the Persian Gulf. Although most are rather smaller. The flippers are moderately large, reaching up to 20% of the total body length.

[bossymarmalade]

After just using the well-known Caribbean phrase "massa day done" as a tag in reference to the sun finally setting on the British Empire, I thought I'd revisit Dr. Eric Williams' famous 1961 speech decrying the appointment of a rich white man to political office as a "feather in the cap" of the party, the speech where the term was solidified in our culture as shorthand for self-determination and independence. And I couldn't stop laughing because it was exactly the way that a certain class of educated West Indian STILL talks to this very day when irritated:

This pack of benighted idiots, this band of obscurantist politicians, this unholy alliance of egregious individualists, who have nothing constructive to say, who babble week after week the same criticisms that we have lived through for five long years, who, nincompoops that they are, think that they can pick up any old book the day before a debate in the Legislative Council and can pull a fast one in the Council by leaving out the sentence or the paragraph or the pages which contradict their ignorant declamations for people like these power is all that matters.

I love this aspect of Caribbean language-ways and how we adhere to that particular era of English that came over on the boats. It's like how the specific form of Bhojpuri spoken by East Indian indentured labourers didn't develop in an Indian context but alongside/blended with other language groups in Trinidad & Tobago, and why our words for things don't scan with Hindi-speakers from the sourceland.

When I moved back to Canada from Trinidad and spoke with other Indian people, sourceland Indians, they never knew "what I was" or what I was saying when I used Trini Hindi. It was a source of embarrassment then, constantly having to explain that we from the diaspora are still Indian and also distinctly individual, but now I love it. My sister nearly physically fought some dude in a kebab shop in England over her identifying as Trini-Canadian rather than South Asian because he said she "wasn't proud of who she was".

We have to tick "South Asian" on forms because there's no space for us and any reference to Caribbean is Afro-Caribbean, but that's not really what I identify as. I'm the granddaughter of those sugar cane plantation workers who were told (in 1926!) "the less education your children have, the better". I'm the daughter of a man who grew up in the plantation barracks where the sugar employers thought it "unnecessary to provide adequate sanitary facilities for their employees, because the workers would not use them".

Massa day done. It's a powerful phrase when you're constantly decolonizing your own identity in the face of a world that isn't aware of what you are.

Massa Day Done, Sahib Day Done, Yes Suh Boss Day Done. - dr. eric williams

[birthev]

Why orgasms are hard work: an etymology lecture

A few weeks ago, I was thinking about Dionysos (who is probably my favourite Greek deity, but I'll save that monologue for another time) and Cybele, and how they're both deities with "orgiastic rites". You might be thinking that refers to sex, and you're not entirely wrong, but it actually refers to a loss of control in general, frenzy, transgressing boundaries. Which can lead to, well, orgies and orgasms. I actually thought "orgiastic" had a different etymology than orgy, but I did some digging and I was wrong, so you're getting the results of my research. That seems like the sort of thing Tumblr would enjoy.

Both "orgiastic" and orgy are derived from "orgia", meaning "secret rites".

"Organ" (both the instrument and the thing in your body) is derived from "organon", meaning "tool".

"Orgasm" is derived from the verb "orgaô", meaning "to swell", which can literally refer to ripening fruit, but also obviously have a sense of excitement or sexual … swelling.

Greek "orgê" means "natural impulse, mood, anger, passion". The verb "orgaô" is derived from it.

You might wonder what even the connection is between all these words and meanings. It gets even better because "orgia", "organon" and "orgê" are all related to the word "(w)ergon", meaning "work", which not-so-coincidentally is actually related to its meaning through a Proto-Indo-European root *werǵ- ("to make").

Conclusion: rites and orgies are work, organs are tools for work (including that kind of work, I can hear you thinking), emotions are an inclination to work/do something, including ripening and swelling of different kinds, sometimes leading to an orgasm. If you want, you can probably get some more sex jokes from this, like something about sex being work or a religious rite or whatever. An orgasm could probably also refer to an explosion of anger/passion originally.

Thank you for coming to my lecture on etymology. The exam is next week. Performing orgiastic rites or having orgasms or using any tools is considered cheating (pun intended). Work, anger, passion, excitement and the organs needed for the exam are allowed.

[souenkun]

I forgot that I haven't shared this before here: some of my pokemon fanmerch orders had arrived earlier this month, and I've been having the time of my life bringing them everywhere with me 🥺

🌸 Pokespe gold and silver + hgss lance keychains by @justtrashperson

🌸 Johto quartet + ingo photocards by @42Yojin on Twitter (from the 야생배 통판)

[alpaca-clouds]

Roman Gods ≠ Greek Gods

Okay, given that Stray Gods has kinda pulled me into that Mythology thing again... Let me quickly say something: No, the Roman Gods are not just the Greek Gods.

A lot of media - like A LOT - acts as if the Roman Gods are just basically the Greek Gods with some minor changes. But, like... They are not. And acting as if they were is simply misunderstanding how religions and thier mythologies work.

If you were to look at it like this, you could argue that YHW is Zeus and is Susanoo as well, if we are on that. (Alright, last one is a topic we gotta argue about.) Because here is the thing: All European and a good chunk of Asian and some North African cultures came from or were influenced by the Indo-Europeans. Aka, some folks who lived some more than 6000 years ago, who were a big influence in making horses a thing and promptly used those horses to spread over the previously mentioned areas. With them they brought their languages and their mythology. Both things that shifted over hundreds of years, creating on one hand the different languages - as well as the different mythologies.

Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Norse mythologies are part of that. As is the Semitic mythology - which obviously birthed Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The gods did not originate with the Greeks. They were much older than that. We even know from where some of the Greek gods came, as we have fragments documenting them being worshiped by some pre-greek cultures.

Which is kinda where the entire thing with the Greeks and Romans comes in. The incorporation of the Greek gods to the Roman religion seems so obvious to us, because it is so well documented. Because both cultures wrote down a lot of stuff, which gave historians the amazing ability to understand a lot more about their culture and religion - because they could read all of it. It is not like with the Norse or the Celtic mythology where the people in question only transmitted those stories orally, making it so that the first to write those stories down were people who did not actually believe in them/practiced the religion and wrote them down from a more or less outsiders perspective. So, we know a lot of those gods and we can very clearly see that the Romans adapted a lot from the Greeks.

But... here is the thing: Not only they adapted them, but quite a few gods were also fused with deities local to Rome and what is modern day Italy. Both things were merged - and there are in fact some gods in which the Italic version of them is more influencial than the Greek one.

Obviously, the Italic people were also from Indo-European roots, so yeah, it probably made sense to merge Zeus and Diespiter, who both were "sky fathers" into one deity.

Yes, there was a whole political aspect in taking over the pantheon.

But saying "Oh, yeah, they just painted over the names" is just ignorant of the cultural context.

[rantingdaunteh]

JoKa LOG #3

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

Kak sleepy, can I call you kak? Hehe, cuman mau bilang kak sleepy talented banget. Bangga banget sebagai sesama Indo (bias lol). Kak sleepy emang udah hobi aja ya dari kecil menggambar dan apakah emang selalu kreatif? Udah sih itu aja. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Love and support always. Mwah!!! 😘

Haloo 😂😂 Makasyiii (❁´◡`❁)

Aku sendiri dari kecil emang udah hobi baca komik, dari Doraemon, Naruto, Kung Fu Boy, Miiko, dan kawan-kawannya aku hobi banget pokoknya.

Kalo gambar aku udah mulai dari lumayan kecil sih, dan aku lumayan obsessed sebenernya 💀 Kalo kelas aku selalu gambar sesuatu di buku tulis atau di buku sketsaku. Buku sketsa disita sama guru udah jadi langganan wkwkwkwk 😂 Kreatif itu relatif, tapi pastinya aku dulu masih payah gambarnya, tapi aku latihan latihan terus-terusan tiap hari.

Gambar itu iya ada bakatnya, tapi aku kayaknya gaada bakat gimana2 💀 Semua orang di keluargaku orang sains dan teknik, cuma aku doang yang nyasar jadi pekerja sendi sendiri hahaha. Just a kid obsessed with drawing honestly.

Thank you for asking and have a wonderful day!

[jesncin]

omg i thought tumblr nuked your blog

why would they do that is my swag too real is my bench too bad would they end me for this

[garygoldenbignaturals]

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[leroibobo]

the sinjar mountains in northwestern iraq are an important place for the yazidi religion, in which god created the mountains with one mausoleum on each of their peaks so they would remain stable. historically, yazidi most likely fled to the mountains around the 13th century, as they faced massacre from atabeg badr al-din lu'lu' of mosul.

these mausoleums house the bodies of several important yazidi figures who lived in the 12th-14th centuries. unfortunately, several were destroyed by isis in the 2010s, but several others still remain.