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glimjack · 2 months ago

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Keldabe kiss is used in Republic Commando: Order 66 (2008, Karen Traviss), but it's being used to refer to headbutting (a 'keldabe handshake' is also mentioned later, and is some kind of very painful fighting move) rather than something like the hongi

But we do also get the forehead touch as a greeting, just unnamed!

The phrase is also used in roleplay game Age of Rebellion: Friends like These (2016, various authors) which to me seems like it's referencing that more hongi-like Keldabe kiss

(please excuse the crusty pdf)

i think about this tweet a lot

#mandalorians #I also had a quick look in Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive (junior novel that includes Geonosis) and it's just not pictured lmao #but that's from 2002 #so if traviss created the words then they wouldn't exist yet #bc she first published for sw in 2004 #it's also not in insider 86 or 80 the mandalorians: people and culture / the history of mandalore #sorry for no id on the longer ones it's too much for me to do on mobile #sidenote i do find it very funny that there's a wookiepedia page that counts every time a mando headbutts someone a keldabe #i can't speak on the keldabe kiss being a homage to maori culture at all though that's out of my field #I hope this helps (<wish there was a way to say this that doesn't sound weird now with the way it's used lmao)

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