28 October 2008 by Tristan Gooley
Those who have been on a course will know the strange pleasure that I get from connecting seemingly unrelated things through natural navigation, so here, before your eyes I will attempt to connect a cat on a dustbin and a Greek orthodox priest.
The Gooleys have just returned from a week visiting family in the Peloponnese. My brother’s house is high in the Greek hills and we found 
ourselves following the same route down a few times each day on the way to towns, villages or the beach. It was during 
these trips in the car that I noticed that certain animals and indeed, in the case of one Greek orthodox priest, people appeared with a soothing predictability at certain points on the journey.
There was a corner that I remembered well for the dustbin which invariably had this cat sitting on it, and the turning to the…
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25 September 2008 by Tristan Gooley
‘Sagur, a spirit and chief, lived on the island of Pulap with his daughter, Inosagur. As she bathed in the lagoon before the canoe house one morning, she beheld a rainbow. It became a spirit, Anumwerici, which came to her. The spirit had eaten all the inhabitants of Truk and Naminuoito; now he intended to eat the people of Pulap, too.
But Sagur told his daughter to fetch a little piece of taro and a small drinking coconut. Although Anumwerici complained this would not be enough, each time he tipped the cup containing the taro to his mouth it was refilled. the same thing happened with the drinking coconut. Anumwerici ate and drank his fill. Never, he said, had he been so satisfied.
In gratitude he taught Inosagur navigation. He placed her in a small coconut tree and by magic made it grow above the clouds. Inosagur could see all…
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Tags: Inosagur, lore, myth, navigation, pookof, Pulap, sagur |
ourselves following the same route down a few times each day on the way to towns, villages or the beach. It was during 
these trips in the car that I noticed that certain animals and indeed, in the case of one Greek orthodox priest, people appeared with a soothing predictability at certain points on the journey.
