Re: Ho !

Vince Henri (impromtu@compuserve.com)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 06:51:03 -0400

=Date: 5 Oct 1997 20:26:08 GMT
=From: boombdboom@aol.com (BoomBdBoom)
=
>
=>In article <19971004230701.TAA13862@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
=>tsalagiwmn@aol.com (TsalagiWmn) writes:
=
=>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
h=ard 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
=
=

:-o

HO! has been used for a long time. I heard it used in councils of the
gathering of the tribes people which I see as what the Rainbow Family
came out of.

Many elders from many american indian tribes came to our councils
and offered their help in any way they could. They gave us many things,
maybe one of those things was HO!....but I don't know....it's one of those
things that's always been around.

I don't think it was intentionally bastardized. If you call out AHO the A
might not come across unless you used it as two distinct syllables like
A! HO! and then I'd be afraid the speaker would thing I was calling
him a asshole.

Who knows who or how it got started. If it is a gift from the American
Indian, I am sure the hearts are warm in the elder grandfathers who
see their influence spreading.

After all, wasn't that their intention. Like I know more than a few hippy
type people who got their totem names from an american indian or
other indigenous people. As a matter of fact, gathering of the tribe type
hippys got gifts from peoples all over the world.

Maybe it was some austrailian aborigine that said HO! and that's what
we're using. Then the commanche can keep their A HO.

Peace and Love FourCorners+Tribe.Rainbow ironwood / running bear

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