Re: Kalieda climate

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 03:52:57 -0500, Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
wrote:

>Speaking of which, I really should think up something brainier than
>"Tairezazh Universe" to refer to the relevant coniverse - it makes about as
>much sense as refering the our universe as the "English Universe", except
>that Tairezazh isn't an international language in the way English is.
Well, my coniverse (nice word) was originally called the Olaetian Universe,
which is pretty much the same problem, although at the time Olaetian _was_
a sort of interplanetary lingua franca (a role later filled by Deverrin).
Since then the name has changed twice -- first to Kolagia (from the
Kolagian Library, which means "Universal Library", thus the name would
really mean "Universal Universe", which is why I changed it again) -- and
then to Azir.

As far as I know, "Azir" doesn't mean anything. But the Tirelhat word for
Azir is "Zhulirev", which means "purple world". The origin of this name is
that I started using a purple folder to hold information about the world --
things from the old Kolagian universe that I wanted to keep (none of my old
folders were purple). Currently, though, I'm thinking of it in a
metaphorical sense, with "zhuli" being a color associated with the world of
dreams and myth that borders on Azir. (The exact shade of purple
represented by "zhuli", and the other basic Tirelat color words, can be
seen on the chart at http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/tirelhat-colors.png .)

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