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just noticed "Mind the Ginnungagap" :q i'll have to read more of Tea's blog...
If the book ever does surface, perhaps it'll include an introduction in which internet denizens search to no avail for a book called Mortiloquist by Reza Negarestani that seems to exist, but apparently doesn't.
quietly speculating on the forms of these letters as channels for subtler energies
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their shape suggests momentum. the rush of horses, the rumble of chariots, the vast distances of seafaring
whereas these are containers of the very same energies
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their square shape almost suggests domesticity/civility. the end letters also remove some of the aforementioned ambiguity. "this is where a phrase ends, one word does not connect into the next"
BILL MOYERS: I wonder what it would have meant to us if somewhere along the way, we had begun the prayer “Our Mother,” instead of “Our Father.” What psychological difference would it have made?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Well, it makes a psychological difference in the character of the cultures. You have the basic birth of civilization in the Near East with the great river valleys then as the main source areas, the Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates, and then over in India, the Indus valley and later the Ganges. This is the world of the goddess; all these rivers have goddess names finally.
Then there come the invasions. These fighting people are herding people. The Semites are herders of goats and sheep, and the Indo-Europeans of cattle. They were formerly the hunters. They translate a hunting mythology into a herding mythology, but it’s animal oriented. And when you have hunters you have killers, and when you have herders, you have killers, because they’re always in movement, nomadic, coming into conflict with other people and they have to conquer the area they move into. This comes into the Near East, and this brings in the warrior gods, like Zeus, like Yahweh.
BILL MOYERS: The sword and death, instead of fertility.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Right. Particularly the Hebrews. They really wipe out the goddess. The term for the goddess, the Canaanite goddess, that’s used in the Old Testament, is “the abomination.” And there was a very strong accent against the goddess in the Hebrew, which you do not find in the Indo-European. There you have Zeus marrying the goddess and then the two play together. I think it’s an extreme case that we have in the Bible, and our own Western subjugation of the female is really, I think, a function of biblical thinking.
BILL MOYERS: Because when you substitute the male for the female, you get a different psychology, a different cultural bias.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Particularly if you cut the female out and don’t have any — I mean, if the male is on top like this and the female is the subordinate all the way, you have a totally different system from that when the two are facing each other.
Some interesting ideas here but is the idea of 'domesticity' not contradicted by what you've later written or quoted about the nomadic and pastoral lifestyle of the early Hebrews?
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Having said that, we're talking about a very early phase in the history of the Semitic peoples, probably before 'Hebrews' existed as people per se and certainly before they adopted writing, and a quick glance at Wikipedia tells me their alphabet only took on the classic 'square' shape after the Babylonian captivity (an influence from cuneiform, maybe?), hundreds of years later.
this is also an area for further research. the whole *thing* of writing possibly throws *strict* post-morgan-via-marx materialist anthropology, ie the evolution of culture is always and everywhere tied directly to the arts of subsistence, leaving no room for The Lightning Flash. especially, as i mentioned, the acceleration of development: earliest symbolic art > systems of symbols > pictorial-syllabic scripts > phonetic writingSomething I can never fully get my head around is the fact that writing has been independently invented no more than six times, and possibly as few as three times, in all of human history. And presumably never will be again.
yeah the idea is they were nomads when using the first script and domestic when using the latter
literally the idea. LEAN INTO IT : )The word spitballs is fucking disgusting though and is viscerally upsetting
it's got spit in it. and balls.
two terrible things together.
like fart salad or something.
https://essexmyth.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/j-h-prynne-a-note-on-metal.pdf
is this link good, i can rotate it but this is all of it, yeah? should i incorporate a larger poem collection of his, 'huts' and two works of scholarship on him into this broader program of study?