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Selves-Humor. I have started referring to Dea Ex Moon as my first Elephant Novel. The book has taken about the same amount of time to create and refine as compared to an elephant's gestation of 18-22 months.

Maurllan.

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"Though once Tuurngaq simply meant 'killing spirit', it has with christianisation taken on the meaning of a ‘demon’ from the christian belief system."

"According to a customary Inuit saying, 'The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet consists entirely of souls.'"

"Since all beings possess souls like those of humans, killing an animal is little different from killing a person. Once the anirniq of the dead animal or human [or werewolf] is liberated, it is free to take revenge."

"""

The Inuit cosmos is ruled by no one.

There are no divine mother and father figures.

There are no wind gods and solar creators.

There are no eternal punishments in the hereafter, as there are no punishments for children or adults in the here and now.

"""

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_religion

-browsed 2024.04.24, 2024.10.08

"""

We, the Women of the Iroquois:

Own the land, the lodge, the children.

Ours is the right of adoption, or life or death;

Ours the right to raise up and depose chiefs;

Ours the right of representation at all councils;

Ours the right to make and abrogate treaties;

Ours the supervision over domestic and foreign policies;

Ours the trusteeship of the tribal property;

Our lives are valued again as high as man’s

"""

"The women [are] the great power among the clan, as everywhere else [in the Six Nations, founded between 1450-1660 CE]. They did not hesitate, when occasion required, 'to knock off the horns,' as it was technically called, from the head of a chief and send him back to the ranks of the warriors."

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

"A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof… Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self-development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself."

-Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898)

"Until recently, U.S. history was centered on white males and was told from their point of view. [Their view] supported the idea wars are the most important events in history and the only people who matter are white men — especially wealthy [white men]. [Until] the mid-1800s… A single woman might own property, earn a living, and be economically independent, but after saying her marriage vows ['to obey'] she lost control of her property and her earnings to her new husband. All rights to the children she would bear automatically went to him as well. Her children actually became the property of the father… A married woman was considered dead in the eyes of the law. She lost her name, any right to control her body, and the ability to live where she chose. She could not enter into any contracts, sue someone, or be sued… With the words 'I do,' a woman literally gave up her legal identity…"

Wagner, Sally Roesch. We Want Equal Rights! : how suffragists were influenced by Haudenosaunee women. Adapted for a younger audience from Roesch’s Sisters in Spirit : Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists. 7th Generation, an imprint of Book Publishing Company, Summertown, TN, 2020.

"Whether these Wonders are real or not bears only obliquely on the pleasure they afford. Belief is a continuum, and although Wonders must be real to evoke horror, they need only be well imagined to give pleasure… ‘Serious’ novelists shun [the] fiction… But deep inside, beneath tasteful and respectful exteriors, we still crave Wonders… We wait for the rare and extraordinary to surprise our souls"

-p.366

Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. Zone Books, New York, 2001.

"There’s a version of feminism [which] celebrates femininity as fundamentally yoked to birth… This is silly, for a number of reasons. (Infertile women. Women who’ve had hysterectomies. [etc.]) But our capacity for birthing monsters really is one of our greatest weapons. You don’t need any special equipment.

"This, in the end, is what matters: not that we stand proudly in all our monstrousness every day but [how] we find small ways to gestate dissent and deviation, to nurse and nurture the things [which] are supposed to be wrong with us until they grow into something great.

"This is our strength: that each of us has the capacity to be not only a monster but a mother of monsters. We can birth from our bodies every one of men’s worst fears."

-p.198

Zimmerman, Jess. Women and other monsters : building a new mythology. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2021.

"To consider the decision to choose violence as a momentary lapse of rationality is to dismiss the expansive reservoirs of trauma [which] shape the makeup of the women who do."

-p.55

"The female fighter’s instinct is to protect the territory that is rightfully hers. Territory is precious."

-p.119

"At moments when the battle for emotional clarity raged inside me, D’lo gently advised [me such] consciousness grows, “when you crack the skin and let the soul come out.”

-p.126

"To the female fighters in Eelam and everywhere [I interviewed], you offered me intimate stories of pain, pride, and power, and I fear I had very little to give in return… but I send [my book] out into the world in hopes the reader might feel the weight of your impact on the struggle, [with my faith] your strength might change [her] forever, as it has me.”

-p.133

Gowrinathan, Nimmi. Radicalizing her : why women choose violence. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2021.

"When women are asked when they’re going to have children, there is, in actuality, another darker, more pertinent question lying under [the ask]… It’s this: 'When are you going to [beep] it all up by having kids?' When are you going to blow a four-year chunk, minimum, out of your career?… When do the holes start appearing in your CV?… When are you going to…put all your creativity and power on hold?… When are you going to stop making films / albums / books / deals? [In short,] what they’re really asking is, 'When are you going to leave?'

"I don’t want men to go away… What I want, instead [of patriarchy and all the other challenges women face], are some radical market forces. I want CHOICE. I want VARIETY. I want MORE. I want WOMEN. I want women to have more of the world, not just because it would be fairer, but because [balance] would be better. More exciting. Reordered. Reinvented…

"I realized that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human. One of 'the Guys.' But with really amazing hair.

Moran, Caitlin. How To Be a Woman. Copyright ©2011 by Casa Bevron, Ltd. First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Ebury Press, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, A Random House Group Company. First U.S. Edition, Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York NY, 2011. Note: “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.” [So there!]

"Away back in time — in 1492 — there was a man [sent by Queen Isabella] by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man… What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white [woman or white] man standing on the continent then?… I stood here first, and Columbus [for Queen Isabella's purposes] discovered me."

-Chitto Harjo, Creek

Jahoda, Gloria. The Trail of Tears : The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813-1855. Copyright ©1975 by Gloria Jahoda. Wings Books, a trademark of Random House, Inc., New York, 1995 Edition.

"When the first Europeans arrived, Columbus and his crew, he called us Indians, because of the obvious reason, he thought he was lost in India… We called them Awaunageesuck, or the strangers, because they were the ones we didn’t know, but we knew each other…every single tribe… [And] what did we call ourselves before Columbus came? We were the human beings."

-Tall Oak/Narragansett

Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. 500 Nations : an Illustrated History of North American Indians. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994.

"Are you a god?" asked Shadow

The buffalo-headed man shook his head. Shadow thought, for a moment, that the creature was amused. "I am the land," [she] said.

Gaiman, Neil. American Gods : The Tenth Anniversary Edition (Author's Preferred Text). Copyright © 2011 by Neil Gaiman. American Gods. Copyright ©2001 by Neil Gaiman. William Morrow premium printing (The Tenth Anniversary Edition). HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-06-247210-6.