Currently, the world record for fastest speed by a boat is 317 miles per hour. That's right! Over 300 miles per hourâ¦. That record was set in 1978 by Australian Ken Warby in his speedboat called Spirit of Australia.
And the modern Nana, Nana OZAKI who is independent and strong enough to brave any storms in her life, is given by Heaven a grandiose label, a huge (o) mountain summit (zaki). Comically, Mount Everest sprang from my head when I made the analogy. Their names are so self-explanatory, so graphic, so vivid.
Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is an important character in the poem, mentioned in the familiar lines.