Counting Winters

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And she shall have musik wherever she goes.

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Counting by Winters

Winter counts are histories or calendars in which events are recorded by pictures, with one picture for each year.
The Lakota call them waniyetu wowapi.
Waniyetu is the word for year, which is measured from first snowfall to first snowfall. It is often translated as 'a winter.'
Wowapi means anything that is marked on a flat surface and can be read or counted, such as a book, a letter, or a drawing.

Winter counts are physical records that were used in conjunction with a more extensive oral history. Each year was named for an event and the pictures referring to the year names served as a reference source that could be consulted regarding the order of the years. People knew the name of the year in which other important events occurred, and could place these in time by referring to the winter count.

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I like to read (and I've been reading since... since forever) and I like to learn something new. I like to write and find new friends to share my interests, to make my world bigger, brighter and curiouser. And I like to fantasize - where can I find the better place to do it all than in the invented world of www ;-)
...and then I discovered fanfiction and vidding...

Warnings: some entries here may have adult/explicit content, be sure you are of age and/or want to read it.

This journal generally is about fannish things, but I write about RL as well. I have no special friend policy, so if we have similar interests I'll be glad to share it. Sorry for mistakes you'll find in my posts, cause English is not my native language.

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