re: #214 CuriousLurker

*wanders in looking blinking, looking a bit dazed… flops down on couch*

I had the Spy open and was watching you guys talk about Yanuk and where he might be going, then JAH mentioned Tblisi and, wondering what it looks like, I decided to check out it’s Wiki page.

It’s a very unusual looking place, which made me even more curious—for me this was the equivalent of seeing the white rabbit with his watch run past. RABBIT!—*ZOOM!*—I jumped up and gave chase without a second thought, and immediately went tumbling down the rabbit hole.

Let’s just say that within 20 minutes I found myself gaping bug-eyed at stories about Indo-European wolf cults and their relationship to the Slavic & Baltic concept of werewolves, at which point I looked up, *blinked*, and mumbled to myself “WTF? How in the hell did I end up here??”

It went something like this:

Tblisi > Cool looking. Let me go check Google Images for more… Wait, WTF is that?? It looks like Persian architecture. I know it’s not far away, but Georgians are mostly Christian. Hmm, it says Abanotubani, so I guess I should go back to Wikipedia and check it out…

Abanotubani > The King of Iberia, Vakhtang Gorgasali? What? There was an Iberia in the Caucasus? And Vakhtang? That’s a very Iranian sounding name… Oh look, it was an Iranian name:

Wolf cult? Wow, time to go back to Google…

There he is—King Vakhtang!—in Google Books in section 2.1.1.5 of Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture . Sheesh, is that title a mouthful or what?

Anyway, I go back to the beginning of Chapter 2 so I can read everything and that’s where I found mention of werewovles and all kinds of other interesting stuff. Honest to God, I don’t know how some people are xenophobic—I find other cultures endlessly fascinating and I think the world would be soul crushingly boring if we were all looked & believed the same.

I really love the internet today. How did I ever live without it?

*gets up off couch*

Yeah, y’all can send me the bill for the therapy. //

Used to do this with print encyclopedias, it’s just fun that everyone now does it with wiki.