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wombat1138http://stores.ebay.com/wombat1138?refid=store , items 290117473306, 290117475350, 290117475578, and nineteen other listings for various magatama; first written by me for that purpose several years ago:
http://www.nuimana.com/spellsb.html , about a third of the way down the page:
After some hunting around on that site, I eventually found an email address and have requested a proper citation for my text. We'll see if they actually respond. At the moment, not quite feeling incensed/bored enough to rampage around there looking for additional text stolen from other sources; however, subject to change.
Nowadays, most people think a magatama is an off-center glass seed bead. But originally, the term belonged to "curved jewels" (the literal translation) like the ones here: stones carved into a comma-like shape whose significance is lost to the ages. Different sources claim it's meant to resemble a drop of water, a sprouting seed, a tongue of flame, or even an embryo-- maybe all of the above, for all I know. Whatever its origin, the magatama has always had a special status in Japan; even now, one of the sacred Imperial treasures is a magatama necklace handed down from the ancestral sun-goddess Amaterasu, or so they say.
http://www.nuimana.com/spellsb.html , about a third of the way down the page:
Magatama-shaped Crystal (Japanese): Most people think a magatama is an off-center glass seed bead. But originally, the term belonged to "curved jewels" (the literal translation): stones carved into a comma-like shape whose significance is lost to the ages. Different sources claim it's meant as mimicry of a drop of water, a sprouting seed, a tongue of flame, or even an embryo -- maybe all of the above, for all I know. Whatever its origin, the magatama has always had a special status in Japan. Even in Modern-day Japan, one of the sacred Imperial treasures is considered to be a magatama necklace handed down from the sun-goddess Amaterasu.
After some hunting around on that site, I eventually found an email address and have requested a proper citation for my text. We'll see if they actually respond. At the moment, not quite feeling incensed/bored enough to rampage around there looking for additional text stolen from other sources; however, subject to change.
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on 2007-09-04 01:01 pm (UTC)I noticed a misspelling on your store home page header (and I always find it helpful when people tell me the typos in my assorted stuff, so here's hoping you find this helpful, too):
Anime-inspired jewelry (FY, IY, etc.) made of fine materials such as gemstones, freshwater pearls, Czech glass, and sterling silver; beautidul and durable enough to go beyond cosplay into everyday wear. Also selling leftover beads and random other pretties.
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on 2007-09-06 10:16 am (UTC)This vaguely of reminds me of our recent order of Kona coffee. We went through the website of a place we liked, and our order arrived with a letter. The letter said that they have raised their prices, but they cannot update their website because the person who built it for them upped and took off and they don't know the password to change the information. (Hm... that was a run on sentence... too tired to think of how to fix it.) They charged us the lower price, which I thought was really nice of them. I wonder if they should just hire some local teen geek to crack it for them.