From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 10 Jul 1994 - 00:23:28 EEST
Nils Weinander in X-RQ-ID: 5074
> Excerpt from the textbook on history and myth which Red Tiger wrote
> for the school master Master Two Brush:
[further excerpted]
> More difficult are the Moving Forces {This word is diffcult to
> translate. It could also be interpreted as agents of tension. These
> are the combined powers.} The Moving Forces were formed from the
> emotions of the Cosmic Dragon.
An unexpected twist to name the paired powers after emotions.
> I'm not entirely happy with the names of the Forces, especially
> Temperance. Any suggestion to improve these things are appreciated.
Hmm. Hard problem.
Fertility Death Passion I like this.
Illusion Truth Conscience Mind?
Stasis Movement Ambition I'm not sure about this. Ambition implies more change than stasis. Body?
Harmony Disorder Temperance These are IMO the social powers, but I fail to provide a snappy expression.
> Bottomline, is this Good, Bad or just Ugly?
A fair idea.
Joerg the ASCII artist strikes again:
Infinity might be a sub-rune of Godunya's Dragon Rune? Take it twice, horizontal meaning Infinity, and vertically meaning Time:
\ ^ / - \ / - - ( ) < X > = ( X ) + X / \ - - ( ) / v \ -
Mastery is somewhat enigmatic to me. It consists of Harmony and a defining lower line. Slavery is hinted at as the same rune with the line on top. Maybe Mastery is really the harmony above (something), or the Harmony with yourself to enforce something, and Slavery is enforced Harmony. If Communication had three vertical bars, I'd make it the middle way.
+-----+ +-----+
|#####| | | |# # #| | # # | |# # #| | # # | | | -> |#####| |# # #| | # # | |# # #| | # # | |#####| | |
The implications of this triple of Runes I will leave to the philosophers,
but it is the first "explanation" I have found for teh lack of an opposite
to Communication.
The Magic Rune is somewhat a disappointment: It is a Spirit Rune halved,
with an added vertical bar.
What makes it interesting again is the fact that the Pamalt/Power Rune is
related to this:
/\ |\ /|\
/ \ | \ / | \
\ / | / |
>< |< |
/ \ | \ |
/ \ | \ |
Which leads to a root Rune and more derivatives, one of which turns (b) out to be Fate turned by 90 degrees:
/|\ /| |
/ | \ / | \ | / | \ /
\ | / \ | \ | / | \ /
>|< >| >|< /|\ |
/ | \ / | / | \ / | \ |
/ | \ / | / | \ / | \ |
root a) b) c) d)
Undead is a variation of the Fertility/Death combination that's obvious, although it isn't too different from b) either.
This leaves Law and Chaos.
With Law all the interpretations have been discussed in recent Malkioni discussion. Chaos is both a horned head, and the sphere of Creation leaking out into the Void, or Darkness combined with the missing half of Stasis.
Another Runic oddity Nick pointed me to is the similarity between the Brithini Pentagram and the Man Rune:
/\ /-\
/ \ \ /
---------- ---------
'./ \.' |
/ '..' \ .---.
/.' '.\ / \
Just a few lines added or twisted...
Alternatively picture Man inside central pentacle, and the element Runes in the five triangles, and I think you have the symbol for the Kingdom of Logic, and the Brithini symbol for Creation as well.
The Pentagram can also be viewed as a fivefold Magic Rune, slightly twisted. What does all this tell about Kingdom of Logic-originated Sorcery? Magic taken away from the spirits and twisted to fit man?
All these Runic musings make me think that a lot more Runes are of draconic origin. Really of Western origin is Man, and the not commonly used Pentagram. The Kingdom of Logic acknowledged the five elements, and will have used symbols for these which the theists shared.
Reactions, please.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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