The Sun God and the Iguana

As a revelle freshman in feb 1986 I lived on the fourth floor of discovery. The guys in the next room over had purchased an iguana. We named him "rager", as in "Rager the Iquana". We would drink beers (although we weren't supposed to) and sing "Rager the Iguana" over an acoustic guitar song that sort of sounded like "California Dreamin".

Unfortunately Rager died from pneumonia. So we decided to hold a wake for him before we buried him. We wrapped him up and put him in the freezer so we could wait til the next friday after making the appropriate preparations. .

friday came and so did the wake, lots of popcorn, beer and "Iguana Blood Punch", we turned our coffee table on its side to use as a podium and with "Rager the now dead iguana" resting on the speaker's shoulder in turn we each gave a eulogy to our now deceased comrade. .

After that we marched up to the sun god. There were about 15 people all told. It was a rather stormy night too. Intermitent rain and lots of wind. .

When we got to the Sun God we dug a hole about 2 feet deep beneath the arch, wrapped "Rager" in a small US flag and interred him. Then we sang the Iguana song and proceeded back to Discovery, at which point we made a complete mess of the popcorn, etc....

So the lore is that there is an iguana buried beneath the sun god..

Mike Caetano
Revelle 1991