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Now that we have the Swahili translations...
Posted By: replay <replay0@hotmail.com>Date: 2/4/05 2:39 a.m.

Thanks to ZexGX recording the audio and rehema translating it, etc.

I googled all the translations and it seems that most of them are Swahili proverbs. I don't know if Frankie brought this issue up simply because it was a cool egg (like Sgt. Banks' letters) that we should all discover, or if they could all be used to look deeper into the storyline. I'm guessing it's the former.

http://www.mwambao.com/methali.htm

: Warning! Old man Maji (water), who we used to respect, is actually a con man.
: He will be beaten with a stick tomorrow morning.

I couldn't find any references to this statement. A reference to the Prophets, especially Truth, who conned the Covenant and the Arbiter?

: Warning! If you want to play ball, you must have a ball.

I assume it is a reference to the soccer ball egg that has long been discovered.

: The cure for fire is fire. (Fight fire with fire.)

Proverb. What humans do to the Covenant?

: A doctor can't/doesn't cure himself.

Proverb. Gravemind couldn't save himself/his species without the aid of the same hosts/species he seeks to devour?

: A barber doesn't cut his own hair.

Proverb. See above.

: Today is today. He who says tomorrow is a liar.

Proverb. A foreshadowing of the Covenant? Tommorrow will never come again for their old alliance since it is effectively split.

: The lion that goes quietly is the one who eats meat.

Can be any number of implications to the storyline.

Theory: Delta Halo is near Earth


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Replies:

Now that we have the Swahili translations...replay 2/4/05 2:39 a.m.
     Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...FrogBlast 2/4/05 5:31 a.m.
     Nifty! This should be on the HSPGrady 2/4/05 8:30 a.m.
     Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...jharla1 2/4/05 1:28 p.m.
     Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...Narcogen 2/4/05 1:29 p.m.
           And, the most important part...gspawn 2/4/05 1:56 p.m.
           Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...Louis Wu 2/4/05 2:13 p.m.
     Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...Sep7imus [subnova] 2/4/05 1:59 p.m.
           Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...Mainevent 2/4/05 3:20 p.m.
           DOH!Louis Wu 2/4/05 4:19 p.m.
                 Marty to become a pinata? *NM*Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 2/4/05 4:53 p.m.
                       This whole bit about marty and sticks... *OT*zugy 2/4/05 10:16 p.m.
     Re: Now that we have the Swahili translations...Raigns 2/5/05 10:22 a.m.
     Some additional translations from Rehemareplay 2/5/05 4:02 p.m.



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