[HN Gopher] Hymn for Walpurgisnacht
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Hymn for Walpurgisnacht
Author : commspam
Score : 50 points
Date : 2024-05-04 23:06 UTC (4 days ago)
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| djaouen wrote:
| I think we should rebrand Walpurgisnacht as, "Boba Nacht". Or
| maybe "Bubble Tea Nacht"? I don't know what the equivalent German
| would be lol
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| According to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Tea (easily
| accessible via dropdown from the english-language wikipedia),
| it's sadly Denglish: ,,der Bubble Tea"
|
| (but by the time it gets its own DIN maybe it'll become ,,der
| Kaugummiahnlichtapiokaperlenkondensmilchhonigeinwegeistee"?)
| hooverd wrote:
| Maybe there could be a Madoka pop-up.
| syndeo wrote:
| Knew I couldn't be the only one.
| kps wrote:
| https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-revokes-intel-qualcomm-
| licens... Being Huawei is suffering.
| chaoskanzlerin wrote:
| Madoka is heavily inspired by Goethe's Faust [0]!
| Walpurgisnacht is a (rather irrelevant) scene in the latter,
| iirc one episode had random quotes on the wall, and the
| thematic similarities are very hard to not notice.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| Interesting topic, but I find the writing to be pretentious and
| obnoxious. I'm from the lower saxony part of that region and
| Walpurgis is just a big drinking festival nowadays. The harz
| mountain has a lot of germanic/paganic traditions that still have
| some cultural imprint to this day (e.g. Krodo). But I mean,
| saxons were never that big of a fan of christianity anyway.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Is there any german festival that isn't a big drinking one?
|
| Better saufen than some of the history:
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| https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/kriegsende/20-Apri...
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| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendeanlagen_auf_dem_Brocken#A...
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| Probably not haha.
|
| You're right, the Harz has a lot of interesting and more
| recent history. There's a graveyard:
| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfriedhof_Oderbr%C3%BCck
|
| I'm hiking the broken for "sunrise" every 26th of Decembre
| and I know how cruel the weather is up there. It has fog 2/3
| of the time and has single digits (celsius) most of the time.
| Pretty interesting place. Also one of the lowest natural tree
| limits in the world with a meager 1142m.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| That's also in Linebarger's _Psychological Warfare_ book:
| they had a great deal of trouble in the mopping up because
| although Hitler had already realised in Feb 1943 how bad
| his situation was and the officer corps was certainly aware
| by Apr 1945 what was going down, the rank and file still
| held to their cause senselessly.
|
| My father told me about celebrating 8 May 1945, and the
| russians (due to time zone?) still celebrate on 9 May, but
| killing prisoners and even getting yourself killed in Apr
| 1945 sounds like die NS-Jungs hatten eine sehr lange
| Leitung.
| sorokod wrote:
| You may be interested in the history section of this
| Wikipedia article
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)
|
| The place where the (second) surrender document was
| signed:
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Berlin-Karlshorst
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Sorry, just was reminding of this convo by some poetry and
| wanted to circle back. Was winter hiking inspired by Goete,
| or just your own shall we say "habitude", for that peak
| would seem easier with feathers for warmth, and wings for
| ascent? (if Lammergeier can carry away whole lambs, do
| Rosstrappe make off with whole horses?)
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| Haha, nice connection. Nope, I'm just from the region and
| love the mystery. I visit around christmas and take the
| chance to get a bit of me-time.
| Biologist123 wrote:
| I sent the essay to several people, and a few wrote back to say
| they thought the writing excellent. This is not to undermine
| your point of view. You're perfectly entitled to it. Rather to
| wonder what it is that causes different tastes and preferences
| to form so deeply.
| croisillon wrote:
| OT but according to Algolia this posting is 5 days old:
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
| pvg wrote:
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
| xg15 wrote:
| Fun fact: There's an austrian kid's cartoon character who isn't
| just named after the Brocken (aka Blocksberg) but also uses
| Walpurgisnacht to teach kids about seasonal festivities.
|
| It feels like a cultural accomplishment that something which was
| an extremely serious and terrifying superstition a few centuries
| ago that cost the lives of thousands of people is literally
| children's stuff today.
|
| https://www.bibiblocksberg.de/node/1901
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