• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    21 days ago

    Apparently knowledge of anatomy was not a part of Polynesian mythology. Even without the teeth, what way out exactly did he plan to take?

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      21 days ago

      Outside my window is a mountain. Everyone knows it as Koko Crater. But it’s actual name is Kohelepelepe which is the Hawaiian name for the labia minor. The story is that a goddess, attempting to rescue another goddess named Pele, throws her vagina all the way from Hawai’i island to O’ahu and it lands in this spot.

      I think about this nearly every day (because of the mountain outside my window).

      Here’s two links related to the story: Wikipedia and a more local essay.

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        21 days ago

        That’s awesome and wild.

        Also, are you native Hawaiian? Else how is living on Oahu? We have dreamed of it in the past, sounds delightful in many ways!

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          20 days ago

          lmao the natives don’t live on the islands where that dude does

          that’s a rich white dude, or maybe asian but probably white

          edit lol at the downvotes for the truth

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        20 days ago

        Well this cooter has teeth (and is a grinder we have learned) so one imagines it has a connection into the digestive system, but then if he knew that, he’d probably have known to avoid the teeth.

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      21 days ago

      He was banking on gingivitis vaginalis, which would let him slip into the blood stream and be carried to the lungs. Once in the lungs, right before leaving for the left atrium (where the blood-pressure is the lowest) he planned on making a small incision into the lung. From here it was just a matter of crawling up.