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Ainia's D'ni Journal - All Things Uru

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she was talking about a god who was one of the"small of stature". When I'd first read this, Ithought it an odd way to refer to a short god—thetranslator had said quite clearly in hisintroduction that he'd been very careful aboutaccuracy and also had been puzzled by thisterm—but I had filed it away on my list ofinteresting but unrelated topics to my paper.Today on the Tokotah rooftop I rememberedthat old phrase and realized that perhaps she wastalking about those the <strong>D'ni</strong> and Yeesha calledThe Least—the Bahro. Not “small in stature” asin height; “small in stature” as in caste. If myhunch is right, then this shamaness must haveknown something about the Bahro! A Dinehshamaness who knows of the Bahro...I simply must look into this, and soon!—47—

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