Re: HIStories and HYSTeria

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

> just for fun, i'm gonna get you into some trouble.  actually that
> English word comes from the Spanish which comes from the Mayan word:
> "huracan" (accent on final "a").  broken up: "hura" is "anger" and
> "can" is the serpent (think of their principal god, queztacoatl
> (aztecs)/cuculcan (mayans): in other words, the wrath of god).  maybe
> you're saying that woman is the wrath of god????? :)  heh heh heh.

And of course, "hysteria" comes from the Greek word for uterus, "hystera"
(also the root for "hysterectomy"), so the presence of a syllable that
sounds just like a male pronoun is, once again, proof of nothing.  :)

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