So last night, when I was trying to get to sleep, I was instead thinking about rituals invoking the 9 Yahgahn elements and directions. I was even pointing at the different directions. While making gestures for Within, Without, and The All, something struck me about these gestures, and I started thinking about deaf Ah'Koi Bahnis and an AKB version ( Read more... )

There's a picture going around Tumblr saying "Random fact #427: If you spell out all the numbers individually, you'll have to get to a thousand before you find a letter A ( Read more... )

Here I'd thought my EAOR code font and my TPNN font were lost to the ether, and today I got the idea to go to http://fayanora.23ae.com/fonts.htm , which is still up, and the fonts are still there. So, not lost after all ( Read more... )

One area of TPNN I'd neglected was numbers. I had only 1 through 10 listed on the web page, and still do. (Not sure when I'll update the TPNN dictionary page.) But I was expanding the TPNN numerals last night, since I wanted to come up with some TPNN terms for measures of distance in space. While doing so, I got frustrated with the word for ten, ( Read more... )

The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far ( Read more... )

Over ten years ago, I started to create the Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog language, a trade language for my Traipah culture that is supposed to be a conlang even in that universe. But I've encountered problems with it. The rules of the language are basically a mix of English and Spanish rules (mostly English), and I started coming up with words in some really ( Read more... )

Oh, I seem to have forgotten to mention that I did a second ritual the day (night) after the last one I posted about. It was also nearly identical to the one the night before it. But then I got a little petered out. Even at the height of my spirituality years back, I did rituals maybe once a month or once every two months. Rituals are great for ( Read more... )

I think I found something new to add to prayers, without meaning to. I was composing a prayer for a friend, thinking about how "Sahn-kia, Koh Soh La Kohrain," AKA "Many-thanks, You Are The All," is a prayer of gratitude, because Conversations With God says that a prayer of gratitude for what you know will happen. Which led to a thought of "So mote ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I was complaining to myself about people being "in the way," of course meaning they were being obstacles. The part of myself that is Ah'Koi Bahnis but is not as acclimated as Fayanora is to Earth expressions gave me this "WTF?" feeling when I said that. I poked at it a little and got a data-burst that basically contained another ( Read more... )

I had a brainwave last night, so now I'm making a *third* constructed alphabet for Traipahni words. The first two, Dven'Ahndahn and Dven'Bahnis, are very vowel-centric, but this one is even more so. DA and DB both have characters for sounds like AHL, IHL, ER, and similar. But there's no logic to it, and there are a limited number of those. It ( Read more... )