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MOSHIRI – Also called Moshiri-Kara. This Ainu deity falls under the global mythological category called Divine Geographers like Inugpasug from the Inuit pantheon, Khong Lo from the Vietnamese pantheon, Halmang from the Korean pantheon and Rapeto from the Merina pantheon in Madagascar.
Moshiri was dispatched to the Earth by Kando-Koro, the sky god and supreme ruler of Kamuikando, the heavenly home of the gods. Kando-Koro sent Moshiri down to form the amorphous mass of the Earth into separate continents, then form mountains, rivers, lakes and islands. Moshiri’s crowning and most important work of geographical structuring was the lands to be inhabited by the Ainu people. (Again we see that this type of ethnic chauvinism is a universal human foible) Continue reading
NOR-CAL ROUND ONE – GAME ONE – The COLLEGE OF MARIN MARINERS welcomed their First Round opponents the CANADA COLLEGE COLTS. After a scoreless 1st Inning the Colts took a 1-0 lead in the 2nd and 2-0 in the 3rd before the 4th Inning ended with Canada College leading the Mariners by a score of 3-2. Neither team scored again until the 7th, when the College of Marin belted in SIX runs and rode them the rest of the way for an 8-3 victory. Mariners Pitcher Cooper Casad picked up the win. 
KALTHAR THE GIANT MAN 
TOHONO O’ODHAM COLLEGE JEGOS 
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the grand and exciting Hawaiian epic about the goddesses Pele and Hi’iaka. 
MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE – ROUND TWO – The 2 seeds – the LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS – eliminated the 7th seeded UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS, beating them two days in a row, this time in a 15-9 shootout. ### Meanwhile the (5) CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX completed their upset of the (4) GEORGETOWN (KY) COLLEGE TIGERS with a 4-2 triumph. 
MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE – FIRST ROUND – The 5th seeded CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX won a magnificent 2-0 upset of the 4 seeds – the GEORGETOWN (KY) COLLEGE TIGERS ### Meanwhile the (6) SAINT CATHARINE COLLEGE PATRIOTS edged the (3) UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE BEARS 4-3 in another upset ### And the (2) LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS defeated the (7) UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS 5-2. 
ANATBA and KOLUBEH – The twin goddesses of childbirth, who began gracing humanity with children after they left the underground world. In Tupari myths the only way women can become pregnant is for these two deities to visit them at night and place a baby in the woman’s womb. Before the baby’s presence in the body of the mother it forms from the otherworldly “flesh” of Anatba and Kolubeh, sometimes linking them like the joints that link Siamese twins. 
Julian de Lusarreta managed the first goal of the Third Chukker, tying things up at 4-4 and his teammate Juan Martin Nero went on to put the Clubmen on top 5 goals to 4 with a shot rocketed in from ONE HUNDRED YARDS OUT! Facundo Pieres notched a pair of penalty shots later in the Chukker for a 7-4 Orchard Hill advantage but Cambiaso scored the lone goal for Dubai in the Chukker, making the score 7-5 in favor of the Clubmen going into Halftime. 
