Eve, Olla, Pib and Pithib (women of power in the eternal world) bore the beautiful race: prosperous before the Flood and miserable afterwards.
The olla is used by the Kwaaymii people, among many others, for cooking, storing water, serving meals and even nursing infants.
Olla podrida | Olla |
Kett contributed five papers to the ‘Olla Podrida’ of Thomas Monro.
The name of the book as well as the names of it chapters are taken from a Finnish song Päivänsäde ja Menninkäinen by Tapio Rautavaara and Reino Helismaa, which says "Kas, menninkäinen ennen päivänlaskua ei voi milloinkaan olla päällä maan" (translated "A troll cannot ever stay above the ground before sundown").
Although the full phrase goes "el comal le dijo a la olla, que tiznada estas" (‘the comal said to the pot, you are so full of soot’), for most people it is reminiscent of a popular children's song by Francisco Gabilondo Soler "Cri-Cri" in which the comal complains to the pot for laying on top of it (‘el comal, le dijo a la olla, oye olla, oye oye!, si tu te has creido que yo soy recargadera’).
One of the rare archaeological testaments of the vergobret comes from the 1978 excavations of Dr. Allain in the zone of the temples to Argentomagus (Saint-Marcel, Indre), where an olla of terra nigra, engraved after being fired, bears the inscription, "vercobretos readdas".
The Anglo-Saxon "Solomon and Saturn" dialogue gives for Noah's wife Dalila, for Ham's, Jaitarecta, and for Japheth's Catafluvia, while giving Olla, Ollina and Ollibana as alternatives.