chindi

Their most important discovery is a huge spaceship–a chindi–which seems to be the hub of the information-gathering system involving the stealth devices.

Archive 2008-06-01 adamosf 2008

As usual for an Academy novel, the heart of the novel is a scientific mystery involving the source of the stealth devices and the chindi, as well as artifacts from ancient races on the various worlds they encounter.

Archive 2008-06-01 adamosf 2008

There's chindi, then they're gone, then they're back.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

It is the concluding novel in the Academy series, and it provides closure to several of the mysteries which had been unanswered in previous novels: it explores the origin of the “chindi,” from the novel of that name and does not find at all what they were expecting and also the origin of the “omega clouds,” which have been hovering in the background of all six Academy novels, and was the main emphasis of several of them.

Cauldron adamosf 2010

It is the concluding novel in the Academy series, and it provides closure to several of the mysteries which had been unanswered in previous novels: it explores the origin of the “chindi,” from the novel of that name and does not find at all what they were expecting and also the origin of the “omega clouds,” which have been hovering in the background of all six Academy novels, and was the main emphasis of several of them.

Archive 2010-07-01 adamosf 2010

But even Silva's Chevy couldn't grind out the kind of racket that had pulled Anna and Stanton from their chindi vigil.} {

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

My guess is this particular chindi doesn't scare off easily. "

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

Religious Terms There are, first of all, chindi, a Navaho evil spirit of the dead; orenda, an extraordinary invisible power believed by the Iroquois to pervade in varying degrees all animate and inanimate natural objects as a transmissible spiritual energy capable of being exerted according to the will of its possessor; gahe, grotesque masked dancers with yucca crowns representing mountain spirits in Apache ceremonies; and kachina (or katchina, katcina, cachina), one of the deified ancestral spirits believed among the Hopi and other Pueblo Indians to visit the pueblos at intervals (as to bring rain).

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984