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- Sandy South: What are you going to do with us? Are you gonna… eat us?!
- Guard: Of course not, girl!
- Guard: Who do you think we are?! A bunch of half-naked savages who indulge in archaic rites?
- Twitter post: #SayNoToRacism #SentineleseRiseUp
- Sandy South: No! Sorry! Sorry!!!
- Guard: We’ll sacrifice you to the volcano goddess Ka wahine ’ai honua!
- Sandy South: Of course…
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Ka Wahine’Ai Honua might be friend of Seeoahtlahmakaskay.
Dikdik: will it work?
Maurice: eh, 50/50
Ka Wahine’Ai Honua is Hawaiian for “The Woman who lives in the World” with “lives” specifically meaning “having sex with.”
So, yeah.
Oh wow, North Sentinel Island has acquired a volcano!
“We know it doesn’t do anything but without cable we don’t have anything better to do on weekends”
“If I had a nickel every time someone tried to sacrifice me by throwing me in a volcano, I’d have two nickels. Which is not a lot, but it’s weird that this happened twice.” ~Sandra, probably
they’re eco-friendly
The Sentinelese speak Hawaiian?
@ Mike:
They’re very progressive and multicultural.
Sacrifice again?
Hmm, volcanoes. Not unknown territory, and I’m sure that everything’s been thought out and worked out in regards to them. And then there’s Sandra, so I’m sure there’s some sort of new angle.
I wonder what her “ceremonial vestments” will be?
Seems odd that the inhabitants of an island in the Bay of Bengal should revere a Polynesian deity.
Come now, what’s 10’000 km between ancient island civilisations? 😀
North Sentinel island doesn’t have a volcano though?
Well, that’s much more civilized, of course.
@ Klekowskii:
Well they don’t have iPhones or a plane or speak Hawaiian either, do they?
I think that the case of setting this story on the last island in the oceans that has an actual population of uncontacted, primitive people shows the difficulties of writing this type of story. A hundred years ago, it was actually possible to set stories on unexplored remote islands without breaking the suspension of disbelief. Now, this story is, I think, a conscious deconstruction of that setting: there is only a single location that could serve as a setting, and making fun of it by adding completely unrelated features is part of the humorous deconstruction.
And of course, sacrifices to volcano gods are part and parcel of “under the killer balloon” series.
Okay! But what if she’s vegan!? Meat and diary give her acid reflux! And yes I will continue to make MI3 references.
Mike wrote:
I mean, they have already been speaking English…
A little savage still, but at least being thrown into a volcano makes for a more dignified death than being ritually sacrificed by Americans to make an imaginary line go up…
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/12/10/0743-under-a-killer-balloon-the-cereal-killer-page-21/
She previously sacrificed three people to Huitzilopochtli. Hmm, could that save her somehow?
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/12/14/0744-under-a-killer-balloon-the-cereal-killer-page-22/
… maybe not.
Cromm wrote:
Nah, the goddess will look like Larissa.
If there’s no half-naked involved in the volcano sacrifice, forget it!
@ All-Purpose Guru:
So it’s the Sentinelese equivalent of Pele. Not that the Sentinelese or the Adamanese in general have a volcano god or goddess that we know of and they don’t speak Hawai’ian or any other Austronesian language but an Ongan language (probably similar to Jawara) but hard to tell as most people can’t study them up close.
@ Klekowskii:
Klekowskii wrote:
“The gratest trick WE ever pulled was convincign the world that maps were to be trusted.”
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/11/23/0738-under-a-killer-balloon-the-cereal-killer-page-16/
Hmm is the ritual null if it requires virgin sacrifices? Phone a friend (hehe, dare them to test their reception by it) and ask Larissa. She Would be familiar with all things fire.
Not exactly liking this story. It’s in a weird place where it uses stereotypes as a joke but also tells Sandra (and the readers) off for assuming stereotypes, and also being absurd in a way where I have no idea where it’s going. Will be happy when this story is over.
Mike wrote:
How about poylonese?
I think that’s the language of the hawiian and other pacific islands.
Guys! This is getting a little tired! Time to move on… OK?
Given the references to adventure games, clearly the solution is to drop cheese into the volcano.
Guess Woo could inform them he’s no virgin.
Just as they lead you to the rim of the volcano for the sacrifice, try to make the Volcano goddess laugh so she’ll spare you! Make fools of yourself, reenact this comic’s funniest moments, shave Qoo naked/furless and have your pants fall down, whatever it takes to make Ka Wahine ‘Al Honua laugh and spare your lives!
@ All-Purpose Guru:
Which world: Gaea/Terra, Mother Earth, Geb?
@ Robert Nowall:
Maybe in the process of forcibly dressing Sandy and Qoo in the traditional sacrificial garments, the Natives will find an intimately located birthmark on Sandy that is considered a holy symbol and signifies that the two cannot be sacrificed, sort of like the Stonecutters in the Simpsons. Rock of Triumph being chained to them and going home naked not required.
@ Robert Nowall:
Maybe in the process of forcibly dressing Sandy and Qoo in the traditional sacrificial garments, the Natives will find an intimately located birthmark on Sandy that is considered a holy symbol and signifies that the two cannot be sacrificed, sort of like the Stonecutters in the Simpsons. Rock of Triumph being chained to them and going home naked not required.
interventor wrote:
Sandra might not be one either…