>Second...the word (in phonetics) "Aho" is a bastardization of a Commanche
> word...yes, it is a "strong agreement"...however, my questions is this...why
> would a people who are not Indian wish to use it? And why would anyone use a
> word they do not know about? And...why has it been, as usual, bastardized?
> (Aho to "ho")
>
>
Although having a neat cultural background for the words we use is nice,
it isn't necessary. Where ever it came from and ment originally, Ho is
Rainbow now. Ho, along with "We Love You", "Welcome Home" and even Rainbow
now have new meanings for me. They are part of what makes a gathering
different from Babylon. They help promote the attitude of giving and joy
that is so important to Rainbow. Whatever it ment before, or wherever it
came from, Ho now means "yes! Yes, yes, oh god yes!" It is perfect for
what we need. It's a word that can be heard over the noisy silences of
gatherings. (I was always dissapointed that the silences on the fourth
weren't surreal.) It can be made to sound like a variety of emphatic
yeses, but just doesn't feel right with a wimpy yes. "ho hum" ;^}
I'd like to point out that we stole "ohm" too. And, dispite what I have
heard from some people, it aint what it used to be. The way we use it is
uniquely Rainbow. Yes, there is some shodow of budhist meditation left,
but you don't have to meditate like a budhist to get what we do out of it.
( I still, to this day, believe the brother in main cirlce in Minn. on the
fourth just as the silence was braking ohmed a hole in the clouds.)
Yes, we stole a lot of words from a lot of places (primarily English) and
put them to our own uses. That's not too surprising considering that we
are building a whole new culture. (Some might call it a subculture.) It's
hard to create everyting that we need out of this air. Especially with so
many people sloshing through, having to be taught the vocabulary at each
gathering. But we need the words. We need to be able to talk about things
that are common in Rainbow and no where else.
I'm grateful for Ho. Also :-0.
Montana Crystal
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