Haku Quotes

Not-being-a-jerk means this and that are done, and now you gotta do the other thing. It’s an ongoing process. Haku

A onda je rekao da su danas muslimanski narodi svugdje u velikom neredu zato što su u malim ratovima, od kojih nikada ne može nastati velika sreća. Velika sreća nastaje samo iz velikog rata! Svi vidimo kako već godinama nema mira ..., niti između Iraka i Irana, ni u Eritreji i Somaliji, ni između muslimana u Afganistanu, nema mira zato što se vode mali i uglavnom neugledni, dosadni i sirotinjski ratovi, fukaralučki i za sitan groš, iako uz mnogo mrtvih i obogaljenih. Nažalost, tako će biti sve dok ne dođe do još jačeg sukoba, pravog, koji će jednog zasvagda pokazati ko je na isitini i pravom haku, a ko u zabludi. Mali ratovi su nalik osoki iz đubreluka, samo prljaju put, ništa ne riješe, posvuda smrdi i dalje, čak i više. U Hamburgu je čitao nekavu učenu studiju o tome da jedino veliki ratovi pokažu ko je velika sila. Eto Amerike ne bi bilo bez Drugog svjetskog rata, tog velikog i slavnog sukoba, nakon kojeg se nedvojbeno zna ko je jači. A ko je jači on je i sveti! U Evropi su se krščani među sobom trvili dva i po stoljeća malim i neuglednim ratovima, a onda su nastali Prvi i Drugi svjetski rat, i sa njima se uzdigla Amerika. I sad Amerika ne da da krščanski narodi, katolički i protestantski, ratuju jedni protiv drugih, niko više ne smije ni zucnuti! Isto je i sa Sovjetski savezom, i on je razvio mišice iz dva svjetska rata, poklopio većinu pravoslavnih naroda, i usput po neki katolički, ne da im da se bave malim i fukaralučkim ratovima, ne da im da džaba gube vrijeme. E draga braćo, i mi muslimani trebamo imati Ameriku, muslimanksu Ameriku. Pa da ona odmah udari čušku svakom onom malom muslimanskom narodu koji je nabodica i fukaraluča prznica, pa hoće povesti mali rat! Pljujem ti ja takav rat!

In the Bible, Abraham is called by God from the district of Ur in Chaldea, which is at the base of the Uratu Mountains, to move south into a new country. (The district of Ur is not to be confused with the city of Ur which was south of the promised land.) In Genesis 17:10, he is commanded by God to institute circumcision as a sign of his covenant with God. In Genesis 16, he sires a son by his slave woman Hagar called Ishmael. In Genesis 21, he sires another son by Sarah, his wife, called Isaac. In Genesis 22, Abraham passed a test of obedience to the Lord because he was willing to sacrifice his son Isaac. In the Hawaiian tradition, there is a man called Lua-Nu‘u (Nu‘u-Lua in the Samoan1), or “the second Nu‘u.” The Hawaiian legends add that he left his native homeland and moved a great distance until he reached a place called Honua-ilalo, the Southern Country. By the command of his god, Lua-Nu‘u introduced circumcision to be practiced among all his descendants. Lua-Nu‘u sired a son by his slave woman, Ahu, called Kū-Nawao (The descendants of Kū-Nawao, the Nawao people, were called the wild people) and a son, Kalani-mene-hune, by his chiefess wife Mee-haku-lani or Mee-Hiwa. He is also ordered by his god, Kāne, to go up on a mountain and perform a sacrifice.

Furthermore, Chihiro and Alice share a key relationship with food: the lavish meal transforms the girl’s parents into pigs; Haku’s berry saves her from disappearing and his onigiri2 comfort her; the river spirit’s dumpling cures No-Face and Haku,

by until that moment and, by extension, her identity and the roots connecting her to her parents. Chihiro literally becomes “thousand,” a simple number among the innumerable employees at the bathhouse. Yet, in the world of Aburaya, a person cannot return home if they have forgotten their original name. Through the contraction of a name, Yubaba obtains immense control over her employees. The most striking example comes from Haku: he is the spirit of a river drained for urbanization, thus a damned soul, his original name forgotten, his identity obliterated. The Japanese title of the film, 千と千尋の神隠し Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, easily expresses this difference of personality. “Kamikakushi” is a word used in Japan to speak of disappearances, with the implication that the missing person, especially a child, has been taken away by a god or spirit (as done by the Tengu when they began appearing in Japanese folklore). The original title takes on a very interesting meaning, since it also allows for a double meaning; the translation can be “The Disappearance of Sen and Chihiro” or “Sen and the Disappearance of Chihiro.” This second possibility illustrates further what is depicted on the screen. While passing through the bathhouse world, Chihiro is put to one side and the Sen part of her personality develops,