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It's Aztec (Nahuatl). Eztlicoatl literally means "Bloodsnake", or "Bloodserpent".Menolly wrote:
What language is Eztlicoatl anyway? Aztec? Mayan?
You shall find Eztlicoatl shall get in on the joke by blotting out the sun for a whole year or more . . .Damelon wrote:
I can see this as a running gag.
But there is a goddess of earth, which I think could just as easily cause one. And I think the amount of wind required to cause something like a tsunami would be more devastating than the tsunami itself would be.Murrin wrote:Yeah; but I think, with no god of Water, Tawhiri wouldn't have much difficulty whipping up that sort of thing by using the winds, so it could probably go under 'influenced'.
Avalanches are usually influenced not by rain or weather at all but by weight. Of course, if the avalance is of snow, then it could be influenced by weather especially if you kept snowing and snowing and snowing.INFLUENCED
avalanche (rain)
erosion (rain)
landslide (rain)
sunshine/blue skies (lack of precipitation/wind/rain)
dust devil (wind/drought)
dust storm (wind/drought)
flash flood (rain)
rainbow (precipitation)
sandstorm (wind/drought)
But if it were an avalance of rocks, for example, i think it would be influenced by weight. Of course, you could always create a storm underwater to replace the ocean, thus causing a tsunami. hehehehe.A tsunami (IPA: /(t)sʊˈnɑːmi/) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, large meteorite impacts comet impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami.
I thank you for the information.Montressor wrote:It's Aztec (Nahuatl). Eztlicoatl literally means "Bloodsnake", or "Bloodserpent".Menolly wrote:
What language is Eztlicoatl anyway? Aztec? Mayan?
Ah...I like the possibilities of what the AllFather may choose to have occur during an eclipse...Montressor wrote:You shall find Eztlicoatl shall get in on the joke by blotting out the sun for a whole year or more . . .Damelon wrote:
I can see this as a running gag.
I had no idea, but that makes sense. Snow it is then.Calais wrote:
Avalanches are usually influenced not by rain or weather at all but by weight. Of course, if the avalance is of snow, then it could be influenced by weather especially if you kept snowing and snowing and snowing.
Rocks have avalanches?Calais wrote:
Hmmm... maybe a hurricane that takes a large portion of the seawater into the sky, and then cuts off suddenly dumping all that water back in.Calais wrote: Also, I agree with Syl that a tsunami is influenced more by tectonic forces than by weather. From Wikipedia:
Of course, you could always create a storm underwater to replace the ocean, thus causing a tsunami. hehehehe.A tsunami (IPA: /(t)sʊˈnɑːmi/) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, large meteorite impacts comet impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami.
Knowing that a tsunami is caused by undersea earthquakes, whoever gets hit with one would be unlikely to suspect you of doing what Syl said. Yeah, you could do at least as much damage directly with wind. But if you did, the victim would know it was you. OTOH, a huge expenditure of wind in the middle of the ocean would likely go unnoticed.Syl wrote:And I think the amount of wind required to cause something like a tsunami would be more devastating than the tsunami itself would be.
So a seiche is a wave that isn't moving? Like one end of the lake, higher than the other? This confuses me.Unzen wrote:We don't have a moon god, but another factor for a tsunami would be the tides. A tsunami that came ashore at high tide would be more destructive than one at low tide. A seiche, caused by thunderstorms, could be a nasty little surprise for someone along the shore of a large constricted body of water like a lake or bay.
