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From: "Don Collins" <>
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Use of the Word "Mulungu"
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:36:49 -0700
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Curtis,
No I didn't, but will go back and look. Just struck me strange, as I know a
little about the "Tantric Movement" in India. Threw me off guard, LOL
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "friend9" <>
To: "Don Collins" <>; <>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Use of the Word "Mulungu"


> It's a special code, Don.
>
> Did you read the whole page?
>
> Curtis friend9
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Collins" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Use of the Word "Mulungu"
>
>
> > "Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement"
> >
> > LOL. ? drinking Kool Aid ? Is this the correct link ?
> >
> > Don
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "friend9" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:27 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Use of the Word "Mulungu"
> >
> >
> >> Does the word "disingenuous" mean anything around here?
> >>
> >> If modern-day Melungeon descendants had to be named by
> >> their neighbors in this age THAT might be the root word.
> >>
> >> Then we could have three factions:
> >>
> >> Disingengeon,
> >> Datingengeon, and
> >> De-udderdisingengeon.
> >>
> >> It is ridiculous to say that a word in use among illiterates didn't
> >> exist because it wasn't written. It is not hard to imagine that
> >> a secretive people with much to fear from outsiders would not
> >> share their origins or the special words in their "patois."
> >> Why should they? What happened to cause the term to come
> >> out after the move to TN, I don't know. Maybe some decided
> >> that they were done moving and opened up to neighbors or
> >> church members.
> >>
> >> See all of page 262 of this link, especially the bottom third (you have
> >> to
> >> buy the book to read the next page!):
> >>
> >
http://books.google.com/books?id=WgVAQjy45qkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=subject:%22Tantric+Buddhism%3B+India%3B+History.%22&sig=IDZM5-PoMQ3-a8QmMxDhAroHigY#PPA261,M1
> >>
> >> Curtis friend
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
> >> To: <>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:38 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Use of the Word "Mulungu"
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > From: "Jerry L. Ivey" <>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Joanne and Dennis,
> >> >>
> >> >> The word "Melungu" was not "unheard of for over 200 years...", nor
was
> >> >> it invented in America.
> >> >
> >> > You seem to be missing the point, Jerry.
> >> >
> >> > The Hashaw word origin theory, stoutly maintained here by Curtis, is
> > that
> >> > the alleged Melungeon ancestors brought the word with them from
Angola
> > to
> >> > Virginia where it transmuted into the word Melungeon and was what
they
> >> > called themselves. But, since there is no historical record of this,
> > the
> >> > claim is that the word was unknown to outsiders for some 200 years.
> > Then,
> >> > once the outside world found out about it and began calling them
> >> > Melungeons
> >> > in the early 19th century, they immediately stopped using it
themselves
> >> > and
> >> > came to hate it.
> >> >
> >> > Dennis
> >> >
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