(Leah tells us a bit about her and Bunny’s family, the Tenuvial family who live by the shores of Sirius. She explains that the origin story of their family is a special one told over three days by thousands of family members at a special ceremony held at the conjunction of their sun and moons. We also hear about the Festival of Fish where the task is to catch a fish climbing the rocks of a waterfall that averages six plus feet and weighs hundreds of pounds. She adds to our knowledge of the planet by explaining how their astrological signs are different from ours by giving us her and Bunny’s signs.) 

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Leah: hello.

Russ: hello.

Leah: hello.

Russ: hello Leah?

Leah: yes.

Russ: hi Leah, how you doing dear?

Leah: not too bad.

Russ: the Tenuvi clan?

Leah: Tenuvial.

Russ: Tenuvial clan, that’s right.

Leah: family

Russ: family. Hmm....

Leah: clan is something I do not understand.

Russ: it is the same thing only more Celtic.......which you don’t understand either…..it’s a……..nevermind. Anyway, how are you doing my dear?

Leah: okay, what is Celtic?

Russ: Celtic is a group of peoples of many different families and cultures that inhabited the northern part of the continent we now call Europe. Mostly in the British Isles where Mark is from.

Leah: but you call them a can?

Russ: clan.

Leah: clan.

Russ: yes, because that’s what they call themselves.

Leah: so as a group they’re called a clan?

Russ: no, multiple, different clans. For example you had the McCloud clan and you had the……

Leah: why is Tia going there can only be one? When you said McCloud she started leaping around saying there can only be one.

Russ: that would be from a popular media, movie series down here called “Highlander” which is a movie about……..it’s a fictional movie concerning clans that….

Leah: holo, okay.

Russ: okay, you got it all figured out.

Leah: I didn’t get that last part, I was wondering what a movie is?

Russ: cinema, like a holo (Hologram).

Leah: that’s with Tia said…..

Russ: right.

Leah: holo.

Russ: holo.

Leah: you were saying it is a fictional holo of…...

Russ: of a story about immortal kind of beings who fight among themselves so that there is only one left who then receives the great prize.

Leah: so they fight to kill each other?

Russ: right, they have to behead each other.

Leah: then they are not immortal, there is a problem there.

Russ: right, they call themselves immortals because if they aren’t beheaded they live forever.

Leah: they assume they live forever.

Russ: right.

Leah: but it is a recreational entertainment?

Russ: uh-huh.

Leah: oh okay. So it’s a recreational, fictional entertainment. Hmm, interesting concept.

Russ: well sort of like what your sister does but with more of a storyline to it.

Leah: hers do not have a storyline?

Russ: no.

Leah: have you seen one?

Russ: yeah.

Leah: have you watched it all the way through?

Russ: no.

Leah: well, you can’t say can you?

Russ: well I can’t stay up there long enough to watch a whole thing all the way through.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: but there is a storyline then?

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: oh okay.

Leah: you would have to ask her.

Russ: I’ll ask her when I see her next. Anyway darling, how are you this evening?

Leah: I’m doing well.

Russ: good to hear it, good to hear it.

Leah: do I have to give a talk?

Russ: no actually, I’m just going to ask you a few questions about your family.

Leah: okay.

Russ: all right, we know quite a bit about the Tanaka family from their history and where they came from and the various myths and legends that led up to where they’re at now but we know absolutely nothing about the Tenuvial clan or family…..

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: and I was wondering if you might fill in a few of the blanks?

Leah: what would you like to know?

Russ: well for example with the Tanaka family we have various legends or a legend in particular that describes their origins, is there any such thing in the Tenuvial family?

Leah: there is a story, rather long story of us coming out of the sea to a land that was empty but full of life.

Russ: oh, is there a short version of it?

Leah: no not really.

Russ: oh.

Leah: it’s more of…..I don’t know what the word would be…..it’s….

Russ: an epic?

Leah: what’s an epic?

Russ: epic is a very long story that has many twists and turns, a start, beginning, middle.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: a dramatic.....

Leah: yes, kind of like that, I think I know what you mean. An epic would be a long drawn out story involving many gyrations of families or family members.

Russ: right yeah, that’s it.

Leah: yes and no. Kiri says saga.

Russ: saga, another good one, yes.

Leah: uh-huh, I know what a saga is.

Russ: okay.

Leah: yes almost a saga but it is you would call ballad saga?

Russ: of yes, almost a singing kind of thing.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: longer than a 90 minute tape probably.

Leah: it normally takes…when we tell it we tell it at special times, the harvest of the springing fish. We will sit around......the whole entire family would get together, all 3,000 of us at the last count and we each tell a part.......

Russ: ohhh.

Leah: and it will go for a few days.

Russ: wow.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: well can you tell me your part?

Leah: my part would definitely take more than one of your recording times.

Russ: oh well, it’s a thought. Okay what is a springing fish?

Leah: it is a fish that is a big fish that climbs rocks with water.

Russ: oh like a leaping fish.

Leah: uh-huh and it goes……..

Russ: like our salmon.

Leah: it’s not salmon.

Russ: oh but we have salmon that do the same thing.

Leah: they’re about this big.

Russ: that’s not a big fish.

Leah: hmm?

Russ: that’s not a big fish.

Leah: did I say big fish?

Russ: uh-huh.

Leah: oh well.

Russ: no that’s a tiny, little thing.

Leah: well this is…….

Russ: I thought you meant these big, giant tarpon-like things.

Leah: oh there are those but they’re not springing fish, those are the climbing fish.

Russ: oh.

Leah: and it used to be in our history that to prove that you were a person of reckoning you would catch one.

Russ: oh, very difficult I take it?

Leah: well I’ve never succeeded and I’ve tried a few times, for fun.

Russ: okay.

Leah: the only thing that you have is your swimsuit.

Russ: hmm, I’ll bet Huna could catch some.

Leah: hmm….

Russ: she strikes me as one of those springing fish kind of people.

Leah: well you stand on the rocks and you try to catch them as they come.

Russ: yeah she’d love that.

Leah: she says she’s tried.

Russ: hasn’t caught one?

Leah: nope.

Russ: I am shocked.

Leah: well I actually had a hold of one on one occasion…..

Russ: did you?

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: ahhh good job.

Leah: had my fingers in its gills, I was about 14 and I wrestled it and wrassled and wrassled and it broke my fingers.

Russ: ahhh.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: for a little fish that’s a strong little fish.

Leah: no, this is the……not the springing fish…..

Russ: oh the climbing fish.

Leah: the climbing fish.

Russ: oh they’re bigger then.

Leah: uh-huh, they’re about……average one is about I should say seven feet long?

Russ: geez.

Leah: no, the length of the futon.

Russ: okay that’s six feet plus a little bit. Yeah that’s a big fish.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: yeah I could see where that would be definitely someone to reckon with.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: wow, that’s amazing you even tried at 14. Man that sucker would be quite a bit bigger than you are at 14.

Leah: the one I caught was about my size.

Russ: yeah?

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: wow.

Leah: weighed a lot more than I did.

Russ: okay well hey, that’s a good little idea of the Tenuvial family there and some of its history.

Leah: we are a waterborne race.

Russ: right, I can relate to that being my sign as we call it down here is a water sign.

Leah: hmmm.

Russ: I think Karra has explained it to me as you have a similar kind of astrological signs on Sirius.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: but mine is the fish.

Leah: the fish, what fish?

Russ: Pisces, just fish in particular, they….

Leah: oh.

Russ: don’t say what kind of fish.

Leah: my sign is the deep fish……

Russ: oh.

Leah: it goes deep.

Russ: okay.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: oh neat.

Leah: uh-huh. Hmm, that’s in the middle part of the winter.

Russ: good, maybe you can explain this a little bit about the signs because no one’s ever gone into the signs part at all.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: if you can give me a little quick thing about your deep fish, how does that relate to you as a person? Does that mean you have deep thoughts?

Leah: deep thoughts, the fish is a loner fish…..

Russ: oh.

Leah: it doesn’t say much, it goes deep in the water but it thinks deep and the other fish because it goes so deep and can move so fast are scared of it.

Russ: hmmm.

Leah: there’s the horak, trying to think of what that would be. It’s a animal with a short nose….

Russ: like a pig?

Leah: describe what a pig is.

Russ: a pig is a quadrupedal, furless, hairless……well partially haired animal that we use for a food source down here.

Leah: that could be anything.

Russ: right.

Leah: a little more detail please.

Russ: it’s fat, has a short, curly tail, short, fat little nose that's squared off, just the nostrils right there in front…..

Leah: and goes (makes a snorting sound).

Russ: right that’s it, yeah.

Leah: yeah, that’s a horak.

Russ: oh okay, got it.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: oh.

Leah: they’re…..on Sirius they’re not so chubby, they move very, very fast.

Russ: oh, these don't.

Leah: they are quite smart. The horak is the action animal.

Russ: oh, okay.

Leah: that’s Huna’s animal.

Russ: is it now?

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: hmmm.

Leah: but she was born on the point of the changeover with the runner animal.

Russ: oh as we would call on the cusp.

Leah: cusp?

Russ: yeah that would be the changeover between the two signs.

Leah: uh-huh, ahh. She was born right at the point of the changeover.

Russ: oh okay.

Leah: yeah oh she is part of horak and part of the runner.

Russ: okay, I understand.

Leah: uh-huh, the runner is the breeding animal.

(Russ starts laughing)

Leah: uh-huh, it’s the one with the ears and the whiskers.

Russ: ahhh okay.

Leah: so she has the……

Russ: the bunny.

Leah: yes.

(Russ laughs again)

Leah: she has the strength and stamina of the horak and then the speed and agility of the runner.

Russ: ahh and you have the deep fish.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: it seems apt and quite well-put just as with our signs are.

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: excellent thank you, that’s a very enjoyable dissertation on your part.

Leah: any questions?

Russ: no you’ve covered it all thank you Leah, very informative.

Leah: okay.

Russ: you’re not leaving yet, you still have another while to go?

Leah: uh-huh.

Russ: oh good.

Leah: I got my……..my main exams are when.......been around your sun twice, no once.

Russ: oh one more month?

Leah: no, when Mars has been around one more time to back to where it is now.

Russ: oh okay, another year.....and some I'm told.

Leah: okay, I’ll catch you later.

Russ: bye love.