Re: Making Hamentachen!
Originally posted by Carl M
... unfortunately Shauna hates them and Dawn does not have a clue what they are!!
Carl, my brother, from what you told me, Shauna is not ashkenazic, so what would she know from
hamentachen?
but, you bring up a good point. there are a number of subtexts to Purim -- it's not just about Beauty Queen Esther being the heroine who saved the people from Hamen's evil plot.
among other subtexts, the word "Esther" is a variant on Ishtar, Ashtoreth, and, yes, Easter. in other words, it is not necessarily merely coincidental that Purim falls at the time of the early spring harvest in mediterranean climes, just as it is not mere coincidence that the recently celebrated St. Valentine's day fell on what had been the Feast of Lupercalia.
what does all of this have to do with Shauna? it's simple. if you look at the pictures that Dawn took of Shauna on her site
http://www.wyldorchid.com you will see someone who is undoubtedly the reincarnated Assyrian Goddess of Love -- just like the ones that Esau married, much to his mother Rivkah's consternation {chuckling}.
Dawn, by contrast, is a bubbalah spelled bubba -- a one-woman Mardi Gras, served up like steaming hot
jambalya with savory chilli gumbo. as such, perhaps not strictly kosher, but nonetheless lip-smackingly, mouth-wateringly goooood.