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Finding the previous walking dance reminded me of some notes I made years ago (as you can see on my hand writing), about a walking game. I remember that I also found the melody, but I can’t seem to find it right now, so let’s hope I can make an update of this post later on with the melody. The game is from the outer islands, where the inhabitants built small labyrinths to walk in by placing rocks on the ground. The labyrinth had concentric cirles, and you could only move your walking direction (clock-wise \/ counter-clock-wise) when you moved from an inner to an outer cirlce or vice verse. Everyone walked in the same direction, except one person who should catch the other ones and that walked in the other direction. Everyone had to sing and walk in rhythm, and you find the lyrics a bit poorly translated from Chartagonian to English here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ocean isn’t blue at night
when only lit by beacon light
Black, black waves flash into white
but only is your course… is right

As long as lights of beacons burn
the red and green says you must turn
Black, black waves behind your stern
but rocks ahead, as you… will learn<\/em>

[The last verse was found on another island, and I don’t think it was part of the standard singing, but it is worth adding for full transparency. The graphite text was added at a later time point, and is taken from a later note in the same note book.]

We will catch the smartest whale
and we will set the fastest sail
but Black, black waves of northern gale
can hide the prey and we… will fail<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UPDATE: I still have not found the melody (though I now remember and can play the first and last parts), but I will place it here if I find it later on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best regards \/ P\u00e4r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding the previous walking dance reminded me of some notes I made years ago (as you can see on my hand writing), about a walking game. I remember that I also found the melody, but I can’t seem to find it right now, so let’s hope I can make an update of this post later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79556"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79639,"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions\/79639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartagon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}