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All the islanders are more or less in the habit of anointing themselves; the women preferring the 'aker' to 'papa', and the men using the oil of the cocoanut.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

All the islanders are more or less in the habit of anointing themselves; the women preferring the "aker" or "papa," and the men using the oil of the cocoa-nut.

Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life 1846

However, Whit-aker's history stretches back 41 years.

This is an archive of a past election 2010

The San Francisco filmm aker, visual artist, sculptor and music-video pioneer 1933-2008 made only a couple dozen short, experimental films in his 74 years.

Exotic Pearls and Powerful Girls Steve Dollar 2010

That might explain the Horns of Consecration motif in Knossos, pictured below, which start to look a lot like twin peaks much like the undoubtedly related Egyptian aker symbolism also pictured below.

The Minoan name for Minoa 2010

If we piece this all together we get the following rough but promising partial translation of this Lemnian phrase: "an [aker] of Venel's [tavarśiu] (that is) before (the) [śeruna murina]."

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If we piece this all together we get the following rough but promising partial translation of this Lemnian phrase: "an [aker] of Venel's [tavarśiu] (that is) before (the) [śeruna murina]."

Nouns modifying nouns in Etruscan and related languages 2009

From there, *Kʰaputar 'The Summits'? would become the word for the entire Minoan region, perhaps in connection to the Horns of Consecration, a very sacred and prominent symbol undoubtedly related to the Egyptian aker symbol representing the sun both emerging from and setting into the two horizons.

A thought on the real name for the land of the Minoans 2009

Mai hole gardin incloodin teh bit teh howse iz awn iz wun twelf uv an aker……

The trap… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

On the Lemnos Stele, an as-yet undeciphered phrase is inscribed: aker tavarśiu vanalasial śerunai murinail.

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