tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 19 08:56:15 2000
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qu'qul pong'egh (was RE: help me explain)
- From: Burt Clawson <[email protected]>
- Subject: qu'qul pong'egh (was RE: help me explain)
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:44:02 -0600
ja' qu'qul:
*snip*
> I chose "qu'qul" for two reasons -- one, it means "Fierce Fire" which is
> very
> Klingon, and two, it has an echo of "CuChulain" the greatest hero in
> Celtic
> history, whom I admire greatly, for he was forced to kill his best friend
> in
> combat, to fulfill an oath and end a war. So desirous was he of not
> appearing
> weak, and so fearsome was his face, that when he tied himself to a tall
> stone so
> he wouldn't fall over when he died, no one would approach for a long time,
> for
> fear he was just waiting for them. Sounds Klingon to me!
>
> qu'qul
>
Also sounds like kukul "feather" in Maya, as in Kukulcan "feathered
serpent" God of the Maya. (Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs)
- tuv'el