tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 09 17:21:04 1999
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Re: 'oy'DI' QuchwIj, jIQuch!
At 03:12 AM 6/9/99 -0700, you wrote:
>qen ja' voragh:
>>... just something to pass the time between rounds of forehead butting
and mu'qaD veS.
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>Any ideas as to the Klingon for *forehead butting*? /qIp/ (hit with hand,
fist, implement) would seem inapplicable.
KFGT gives us (paw') for "butting heads"
SuSvaj
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>A propos, here's a passage that Klingonists may find of interest from an
article on the origins of the martial arts in China:
>
>[The] intertwined traditions of theater and the martial arts came together in
>their most peculiar form in the "butting game" (chiao-ti hsi) of the Ch'in
>and Han dynasties. The eighteenth century T'u-shu chi-ch'eng, an
encyclopedia
>in 10,000 sections (chuan) that is one of the largest and most complete ever
>compiled anywhere, lists this butting game as its first entry under the
subject
>of boxing. In the original form of this game, people donned cow's horns and
>butted one another, in commemoration of a mythological event from the time
>of the Yellow Emperor. Eventually, however, it became a generic name
>referring to games of combat such as wrestling, acrobatics and other
assorted
>forms of entertainment. This transformation was in progress in 209 B.C.,
>when the second emperor of Ch'in "made merry with games of butting and
>comedic actors." In this, one of their earliest manifestations, the
martial arts
>appear to have taken the form of faintly ridiculous entertainment.
>
>>From Charles Holcombe, "Theater of Combat: A Critical Look at the Chinese
>Martial Arts" (http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/holcom.htm).
>
>The Ohio State mirror site of the Center for Buddhist Studies at National
Taiwan University (indexed at
http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/FULLTEXT/cf_by.htm) holds a wealth of
scholarly articles on Buddhism and related topics. tIlaD!
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>qa'ral
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