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> =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
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> =
>
> :-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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