Wikipedia Links from my Notes 3

Slushpile index Part 1, Part 2These posts accumulate quite fast. 1. Dictionary of the KhazarsA 1984 novel by Milorad Pavić that tells its multi-headed century-spanning alternate-history story through dictionary format. I’ve not read it but I really should, since it sounds 110% like my kind of shit. Though right now it seems my bets are either borrowing the low-quality scanned pdf from Internet Archive or snagging it through interlibrary loan.2. QuinametzinFrom Aztec mythology via the Codex Mendieta; six giant sons of Mixcoatl, who survived the flood that destroyed the world of the Fourth Sun and then founded the cities and peoples of the Fifth.3. Ḫulbazizi“Evil be gone” or “the evil is eradicated”; the final phrase of Sumerian and later Alkkadian exorcism incantations. 4. OfudaWood or paper talismans used in both Shinto and Japanese Buddhism.5. Haida MangaThis is predominantly the work of Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, and while the article doesn’t have any visual examples a…