Seeja

Author: Porges

src/bibliography.yaml

@@ -21126,3 +21126,21 @@ WheelsLife:
   publisher-place: New York, NY, USA
   URL: https://archive.org/details/martin-gardner-mathematical-games/10%20Wheels%2C%20Life%2C%20and%20Other%20Mathematical%20Amusements
   ISBN: '0716715880'
+TopOfThePyramid:
+  type: article-magazine
+  title: The Top of the Great Pyramid
+  author:
+  - given: Hugh
+    family: Macmillan
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Macmillan_(minister)
+  page: 672-676
+  URL: https://archive.org/details/sim_good-words-and-sunday-magazine_1897_38/page/672
+  in:
+    title: Good Words
+    editor:
+    - given: Donald
+      family: Macleod
+    publisher: Isbister and Company
+    publisher-place: London
+    issued: 1897
+    volume: 38

src/games/knucklebones/knucklebones.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Knucklebones
 draft: true
 date created: 2025-05-20
-date modified: 2025-07-04
+date modified: 2025-07-09
 ---
 
 Ge'z: @ComparativeGeez [p. 354]
@@ -11,4 +11,6 @@ Ge'z: @ComparativeGeez [p. 354]
 
 Kautan - @SomaliGames
 
-Nepali? https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146785/page/n495
+Nepali? https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146785/page/n495
+
+Game of Astragalus, image: https://archive.org/details/sim_good-words-and-sunday-magazine_1898_39/page/406

src/games/morra/morra.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ subgames:
     countries: CN,HK
     originalTitle: 猜枚
 date created: 2024-12-18
-date modified: 2025-03-16
+date modified: 2025-07-09
 aliases:
   - '<span lang="it" class="noun">Morra</span>'
 linter-yaml-title-alias: '<span lang="it" class="noun">Morra</span>'
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ see correspondence [@GameOfMicatioDigitorum] [@MicatioDigitorumLetter][@MicatioD
 
 In @JanuaLinguarum1661 [484] where other games are described as “childish” (<span lang="la">puerile</span>), “gamerly” (?, <span lang="la">aleatorium</span>), or “tedious” (<span lang="la">tædiosum</span>), <span lang="la">digitis micare</span> is described simply as “Italian” (<span lang="la">Italorum</span>).
 
+Description in London: https://archive.org/details/sim_good-words-and-sunday-magazine_1899_40/page/120/mode/2up?q=game
+
 See also: @PrimitiveCulture [p. 74]
 
 Ti in Maori? [@AccountOfNewZealand 113]

src/games/sija/sija.md

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 ---
-title: <span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>
+title: '<span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>'
 titleLang: ar-Latn
 originalTitle: <span lang="ar">سيجة</span>
 draft: true
 countries: EG
 date created: 2024-12-22
-date modified: 2025-02-16
+date modified: 2025-07-09
 aliases:
-  - <span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>
+  - '<span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>'
   - <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>
-linter-yaml-title-alias: <span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>
+linter-yaml-title-alias: '<span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>'
 ---
 # <span lang="ar">سيجة</span> · <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun">Sīja</span>
 
@@ -35,10 +35,18 @@ This game is usually called <span lang="ar-Latn" class="noun aka">Seega</span> i
 
 In Arabic it is variously called <span lang="ar" class="aka">سِيجَة</span> <span lang="ar-Latn" class="aka">sīja</span>; <span lang="ar" class="aka">سيجة</span> <Pronounce  lang="ar-Latn" pronouncer="Ad7am" file="pronunciation_ar_سيجة.mp3" class="aka">sīja</Pronounce>; <span lang="ar" class="aka">سيجا</span> <Pronounce  lang="ar-Latn" pronouncer="Ad7am" file="pronunciation_ar_سيجا.mp3" class="aka">sījā</Pronounce>; or (in Egypt? there was some specific location here) <span lang="ar" class="aka">شيزة</span> <Pronounce  lang="ar-Latn" pronouncer="Ad7am" file="pronunciation_ar_شيزة.mp3" class="aka">shiza</Pronounce>.
 
+Sija also the name of a cactus in Sanskrit? https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53326/mode/2up?q=%22seeja%22
+
 See: @BedouinHeritage, @ModernEgyptians [p. 318], @GebelElSilsila, @SeegaEgyptian
 
 @Murray2 [§4.1.7], leaping variant @Murray2 [§4.4.3], citing @AncientCeylon [p. 604], where Chokō is also described
 
+See @TopOfThePyramid.
+
+in a story: https://archive.org/details/folktalesofegypt00elsh/page/23/mode/2up?q=bedouin+seega
+
+example game: https://archive.org/details/youngfolkscyclo01bostgoog/mode/2up?q=bedouin+seega
+
 https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A9_(%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A9)
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20180416162812/http://www.alhayat.com:80/Articles/1122615/%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A9--%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A9--%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9----%D8%B4%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AC--%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D8%A9--%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%84-
@@ -109,6 +117,10 @@ Possibly the same as <span lang="so">kubbad</span>[@SomaliEnglishThesaurus p. 99
 
 Dara also in [@JeuxChezTouaregs].
 
+## Commercial
+
+See "seejeh" https://archive.org/details/Games-Magazine-January-February-1979-images/page/4/mode/2up also mentioned in Gamut of Games https://archive.org/details/gamutofgames0000sack/mode/2up?q=%22seejeh%22 and published in Israel too https://archive.org/details/americangames00alex/mode/2up?q=%22seejeh%22 - was sold by Smithsonian https://archive.org/details/smithsonian-1970-2010/1970-1979/1978/Smithsonian%20v08n11%20%281978-02%29%20%28Gale%29/mode/2up?q=%22seejeh%22 - more about it here https://archive.org/details/TheJerusalemPost1976IsraelEnglish/Dec%2010%201976%2C%20The%20Jerusalem%20Post%2C%20%2313882%2C%20Israel%20%28en%29/mode/2up?q=%22seejeh%22 and here https://archive.org/details/TheNewYorkTimes1976USAEnglish/Dec%2013%201976%2C%20The%20New%20York%20Times%2C%20%2343423%2C%20USA%20%28en%29/mode/2up?q=%22seejeh%22
+
 ## See also
 
 [Cokoo](games/cokoo/cokoo.md) is a very similar game.