Disjointed Ramblings on The Khukuri as Microcosm

Nice um... sword! Probably shouldn't ask if there are pics of the sheath.
 
Welcome, ravishing beauty. Or in keeping with the spirit of this thread, are you the sword?



munk
 
BTW, the Spanish word for sheath is "Vaina".

Just adding to the caos.

n2s
 
Animal, mineral or vegetable,
"symbolic musings" on the masc/fem, violent and warlike women, latin, legends, bellydancers......... (where we going next)?!

I may need more beer and spicy bean burritos to keep up!:D :p

Actually, I took bellydancing for a short time. Apparently not the right kind. No blades of any kind:grumpy: -now that would have caught my interest.
Fancy-looking swords in "(Ruel's) article". You all did notice the swords?!;) :D

Shirley
 
Originally posted by youngwood
Animal, mineral or vegetable,
"symbolic musings" on the masc/fem, violent and warlike women, latin, legends, bellydancers......... (where we going next)?!
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Umm, if we're true to form, bears and ducks should be along any time now. :rolleyes:

Fancy-looking swords in "(Ruel's) article". You all did notice the swords?!;) :D [/B]
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Hmmm.....who would win a duel between a belly-dancer with a khuk and a guy with a katana? :p
 
* My thanks to Beoram for hosting the article. I'm actually preparing an expanded version of it for publication in a Middle Eastern dance journal -- pretty exciting. :) Any feedback toward the improved copy would be appreciated.

* Munk,

Sorry to disappoint, but I'm one of the guys. That gal was someone a friend of mine photoed at a Renaissance Fair last year -- figures it'd be on a day I wasn't there... :( I just included it to keep with the theme of the thread. ;)

That Fair's 2003 season, incidentally, is opening tomorrow. With any luck, I'll catch some equally attractive bellydancers out there.

* Shirley,

"Fancy-looking swords in "(Ruel's) article". You all did notice the swords?!"

We could use your help in plugging for an HI Kastane, since the carving talent is available in Nepal. Might help you get re-acquainted with bellydancing. :D
 
Hmmm.....who would win a duel between a belly-dancer with a khuk and a guy with a katana? :p [/B]
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Don't know, but here's that same girl with a katana:

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Might be a struggle, but I think I could take her with my Gelbu.
 
Originally posted by ruel
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We could use your help in plugging for an HI Kastane, since the carving talent is available in Nepal. Might help you get re-acquainted with bellydancing. :D [/B]
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Carving talent is there, but not my dancing talent-don't think I had any to speak of.:rolleyes:
Influence of artsy friends on the west coast(where else?!) in late teens(long ago).

I like to hold swords tho, if that would be of assistance.:D
 
A khukuri consists of microcosm. Some say a life does, too.

I agree from the bottom of my heart.
Khukuri is living, or else how can you explain it breeds?
 
Hey Josh

I liked your philosophying in your original post of this thread very much, and so during the weekend over a fire in the forest I told some girls about this perspective on a khukuri (as I had been using one to chop firewood). They liked it very much until I got to this part:
Originally posted by Josh Feltman
It has both masculine and feminine aspects: The strength and sturdiness of the blade seem very masculine while the graceful curves suggest the feminine.
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Can you guess what they called me after quoting your perspective? A male chauvinist! I couldn't believe it! What has this world come to? :confused:


Oh, and I added the perspective of Ferrous Wheel also:
Originally posted by Ferrous Wheel

...the sword is the masculine symbol, and the Sheath is the feminine symbol. When the sword is drawn from the sheath, it means business. Only the protection and containment of the sheath can stop the swords ardor for battle.
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But that only seemed to doom me further into being a hopeless male chauvinist.

I don't get it. How can good comparisons like that be called chauvinist?
 
When someone starts complimenting me on my graceful curves, I'm going to start worrying.
 
Hey, Eikerværing, good point. I thought about my male/female comparison after I posted it, and I can see how it could be taken as chauvinist because it implies that women are not strong. I guess I should have worded it more carefully.
--Josh
 
Originally posted by Josh Feltman
Hey, Eikerværing, good point. I thought about my male/female comparison after I posted it, and I can see how it could be taken as chauvinist because it implies that women are not strong. I guess I should have worded it more carefully.
--Josh
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We could perhaps try to imply in such a musing that the women are strong sure (in spirit), but as we are dealing with a physical object like a khukuri then it would be logic that we stick to physical comparisons between the man and the woman. Hence it would be ok to say that the man is physically strong, and the physical property of women is beautiful curves.

That sounds ok doesn't it?
 
Or perhaps we could suggest that through the dialectic interaction of male and female elements, the khukuri emerges as an androgynous entity embodying positive aspects of both masculinity and femininity, perhaps surpassing either polar opposite through the melding of the two. The whole is greater than the sum of its aspects:)
--Josh
 
* Josh,

There's actually scientific evidence to support that position, in Sandra Bem's inventory of gender type attributions. People with the highest scores for positive characteristics are those that rate high for both male and female gender-typed qualities, rather than just one or the other.

Remember that the inventory deals with gender-associated personality traits, and not actual transgendering, so one shouldn't worry about the score obtained and how it affects his/her masculinity or femininity. ;)

I knew I'd be able to use my psych degree in this thread eventually...:cool:

* There's actually a Hindu god based on this very idea -- Ardhanarishvara, Siva as both god and goddess:

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I'm sure a special edition khukuri can be spun off this somehow. :)
 
Originally posted by Aardvark
When someone starts complimenting me on my graceful curves, I'm going to start worrying.
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Hehehe...dunno if I should admit this, but that is the reason I no longer have long hair:eek: :rolleyes: :confused: :barf: :p
 
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