trouble understanding descriptions the way they're supposed to be understood?

[sidd851]

• Humans are successfully created from Maize.[39]
• The gods give them morality in order to keep them loyal.[40]
• Later, they give them wives to make them content.[41]
• This book also describes the movement of the K'iche' and includes the introduction of Gucumatz.[42]

Nor me. Having never heard of it before didn't help.

Reminded me of the Welsh phrase.

Note that pobol y cym
In Welsh from ancient British,
Is people of the valley .

Pobol to popol....

It could mean people of and not book of...

Vuh or wuj...

Yeah, I get the summary, but culturally, socially, I get no sense of the everyday lives of these people. I get no values, no sense of anything of these people's mores... no trace of humanity in the telling of a story about, ultimately, humanity...

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Yeah, I get the summary, but culturally, socially, I get no sense of the everyday lives of these people. I get no values, no sense of anything of these people's mores... no trace of humanity in the telling of a story about, ultimately, humanity...

So,to sum :
You don't get it.
I completely misunderstood.

Stick to Gilgamesh . No maize people in that.

 

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@Progster
"And why do nurses say 'a sharp scratch' when they are inserting a needle -
there's no way that the sensation is 'a sharp scratch', it is a pinprick!"

Really? Some nurses have said to you that an injection experience
will be a "sharp scratch"?

That seems way off the mark.

The only thing nurses have said to me about getting a shot
has been "this will be a hard pinch."

This actually did seem to describe it, for me.
It lessened any thoughts of "and now someone is sliding a
needle into my flesh" and focused my thoughts on the
idea of "pinch"/muscle reaction.

 

[Progster]

Really? Some nurses have said to you that an injection experience
will be a "sharp scratch"?

I've heard them using this on UK TV medical documentaries, it seems to be a standard phrase they use. Perhaps it's meant to distract you from the real sensation or what's going on, but I don't see why they shouldn't say a pinprick... it's certainly not a scratch. Here, they tell you to take a deep breath. I asked them why and they said it's just a distraction technique, there's no medical reason for it.

 

[the_tortoise]

Here, they tell you to take a deep breath. I asked them why and they said it's just a distraction technique, there's no medical reason for it.

Strange, I thought it was a relaxation/anxiety-reduction thing, meant to calm people down.

That said, intramuscular injections hurt less when the muscle the needle is going into is relaxed.... depending on how stressed/tensed up you are, you might relax your muscles on the exhale of a deep breath, lessening pain.