Baja Bernie - 12-29-2006 at 08:37 AM
for you never know who trod this earth with you.
In Plautus (Bacchides iv. 8, 54) Summanus and the verb summanare are used for the god of thieves and the act of stealing, with obvious reference to
Summanus as a god of night, a time favorable to thieves and their business.
OR Summanus was the god of nocturnal thunder.
You take it from here. I was just curious about a name attached to a person whom I very much enjoy reading here on Nomad.
FARASHA - 12-29-2006 at 09:18 AM
So it wasn't only me, curiously getting information as to who Summanus
is/was - 
Farasha
Baja Bernie - 12-29-2006 at 09:29 AM
Now I am working on your handle and am finding many interesting things like....................................................
Gypsy.....butterfly.....bellydancer......and....other exotic things.
But nothing about diving!
[Edited on 12-29-2006 by Baja Bernie]
FARASHA - 12-29-2006 at 09:47 AM
-got my Nickname after a dive with a new friend in the Red Sea, she referred to
my Underwater Movements as Butterfly like - like dancing from Reef to Reef, and then hanging in there motionless for a while in the blue - before
moving on.
All the other meaning of this name - I leave to peoples Fantasy!
Summanus - 12-29-2006 at 02:56 PM
Bernie, you must be building up material for another book?
"A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
that old Baja-fan, Euripides.
Ken Bondy - 12-29-2006 at 03:02 PM
Hold on just a minute. I have been assuming that Summanus, Roman God of Nightly Thunder, referred to simple flatulence. Where did I go astray?
++Ken++
Hmmm
Sharksbaja - 12-29-2006 at 03:21 PM
Heck, I don't know but they sounds more like sonic-booms rather than thunders to me.
But I love the inference to Euripedes.
The Nomad with no voice is the poor soul without a laptop and a connection....
Sharksbaja
Now thats' tragedy!
Bernie, what kind of hot sauce you stirring? I like it. Mas picante!!
Ken
Baja Bernie - 12-30-2006 at 10:18 AM
I smelled (thought) the same until I researched the name and found that there was much more depth in the person that assumed it than I originally
understood.
It is always nice to discover that.
Thunder God, Picture a book cover graphically depicting Ken's comment...............doubt that it would be a best seller
BUT as a bano book it would be a blast!
Bernie..
Summanus - 12-30-2006 at 10:36 AM
My bathroom (the library!) shelves are overflowing now.
These 'noises' could be from shari's earthquakes as foretold by her mystic prophet, but I am not a pantomancer...one who sees omens in every event.
As for as all this flatuence...I am obmutescent, preferring silence and avoid noise; rather than metapneustic or having one’s respiratory organs in
one’s butt. All this and I get to be a paralian who loves living next to the sea....where nightly thunder happens every now and then.
Summanus
Baja Bernie - 12-30-2006 at 10:39 AM
I bow low to you and ........................................
Life is fun!
Yep!
Baja Bernie - 12-30-2006 at 04:11 PM
I remember when that was true.