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Originally Posted by derfman
lol cool, im crap with impressionism, i didn't even see the polar bear first time round, it just looked like a garbled mess to me, and the namaste ...although wat does that mean, also that statue thats upside down, n e thing to do with the foot that was found on the island?
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Namaste means "hello" in hindi. I qoute wikipedia:
Namasté or Namaskar (?????? [n?m?s?te?] in Nepali and Hindi (from internal sandhi between nama? and te) is a South Asian greeting, which is used when both Hello and Goodbye would be used in English. The meaning can be quite different, however.
Sanskrit na reflects a simple negation. Ma? points to ego, referring "I" and "my". Thus nama? means "bow, obeisance, reverential salutation, adoration to your inner truth", but not next to your ego, or more simply "not me". Te is the dative of the personal pronoun tvam, "you". A literal translation of nama? te is thus "reverential salutation to your inner", or more simply "not to me, but to you (I bow)".