amíu - calm heart
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pauraque_bkIf you haven't voted in the Myers-Briggs personality types : Hogwarts houses survey, there's still time. I'll probably collate the results over my weekend (that's Monday and Tuesday to you).
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maidenjedi, fellow writer of HP and XF, and one of my most valued friends. Can an agnostic California faggot and a Christian Republican from Texas roam fandom together without driving each other crazy? You bet your sweet ass they can. *hugs MJ*
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Forkeladryb:
láer angal "calm heart"
X-SAMPA: [ la_(drop)Er\ {N{l ]
láer
"Womb". The Lúen believe a woman's spirit is located in her uterus, which is thought to be a gateway (láer also means "gateway") to the home of the dead and the unborn, located under the sea. Children are not created in the womb, but rather are called through it. At puberty, a woman is literally opened to the spirit world, and spiritual matter (considered a type of seawater) flows through her body, collecting primarily in her womb.
The lúe soul is not a discrete entity, but rather various concentrations of spiritual matter, which collects and moves and drains and reaccumulates throughout life, in any number of ways. Pre-pubescent girls are not soulless; their spirit is simply more diffuse throughout the body.
The written form of láer is an ideogram incorporating a suggestion of the "sea(water)" pictogram.
angal
"Calm", in the sense that a body of water is calm. A figurative usage, but a common one. It's particularly apt here, as the spirit is believed to be literally liquid.
The written form is a phonetic+determinative combination. The phonetic is ngan "day", which is itself composed of elements depicting the sky and the sun. The determinative is "sea". The hook at the beginning of the bar line indicates the adjective derivation, in this case a-.
I've gone into the cultural elements a bit more than usual this time; questions and comments are certainly welcome on that, as well as on the language itself.
Next up for an icon isruhgozler. I'm still happy to take requests.
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Happy birthday to
maidenjedi, fellow writer of HP and XF, and one of my most valued friends. Can an agnostic California faggot and a Christian Republican from Texas roam fandom together without driving each other crazy? You bet your sweet ass they can. *hugs MJ**
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keladryb:láer angal "calm heart"
X-SAMPA: [ la_(drop)Er\ {N{l ]
láer
"Womb". The Lúen believe a woman's spirit is located in her uterus, which is thought to be a gateway (láer also means "gateway") to the home of the dead and the unborn, located under the sea. Children are not created in the womb, but rather are called through it. At puberty, a woman is literally opened to the spirit world, and spiritual matter (considered a type of seawater) flows through her body, collecting primarily in her womb.
The lúe soul is not a discrete entity, but rather various concentrations of spiritual matter, which collects and moves and drains and reaccumulates throughout life, in any number of ways. Pre-pubescent girls are not soulless; their spirit is simply more diffuse throughout the body.
The written form of láer is an ideogram incorporating a suggestion of the "sea(water)" pictogram.
angal
"Calm", in the sense that a body of water is calm. A figurative usage, but a common one. It's particularly apt here, as the spirit is believed to be literally liquid.
The written form is a phonetic+determinative combination. The phonetic is ngan "day", which is itself composed of elements depicting the sky and the sun. The determinative is "sea". The hook at the beginning of the bar line indicates the adjective derivation, in this case a-.
I've gone into the cultural elements a bit more than usual this time; questions and comments are certainly welcome on that, as well as on the language itself.
Next up for an icon is
ruhgozler. I'm still happy to take requests.
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-21 12:32 pm (UTC)Can we co-exist?
Date: 2004-03-21 02:59 pm (UTC)Thanks for the birthday wishes, Eo. {{{big return hug}}}
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Date: 2004-03-21 03:45 pm (UTC)there are some beautiful concepts here, particularly this:
Children are not created in the womb, but rather are called through it
and yes, I wondered what the ? was for! makes sense now
Yay!
Date: 2004-03-22 01:17 am (UTC)