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RE: [compost_tea] Re: ICTC
Tom
you have too much spare time :-)
pAt 04:23 PM 29/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Inuit do not eat lemmings, nor do they make any use of their small skins.
>However, those Inuit who support themselves in whole or in part by trapping
>benefit indirectly from the "run" of arctic foxes that follows each lemming
>peak.
>
>One of the Inuit names for the collared lemming is kilangmiutak, which means
>"one-who-comes-from-the-sky." The legend of lemmings falling from the sky is
>common to Inuit all across the North American Arctic and Scandinavia. It
>probably arose because of the sudden appearance of lemmings when the snow
>melts following a winter of intensive reproduction. Lemmings, particularly
>the collared lemming with its presumed origin from the sky, were sometimes
>used by shamans ("medicine men") as a source of supernatural powers.
>
>Lemmings are a vital part of the rather simple web of life on the tundra,
>and they help to teach us how intricate even that simple ecosystem is. Their
>
>
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Laura Sabourin
EcoVit Ecologically Sound Horticultural Products
Tea-riffic Areobic Compost Tea and Acadian Seaplant Products
RR # 1
St Catharines, Ontario L2R 6P7
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