Re: general reply: Reactions, permission, religion
| From: | Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 10:03 |
|---|
J. Barefoot wrote:
>
> Speaking of reactions to the secret vice, and I know we were, my French
> teacher thinks she can get me actual high school credit for all the work
> done on Asiteya. "You mean people will take this seriously?" I stammered.
> "We'll make them take it seriously," she said. I couldn't believe it. Seeing
> as how we will very few courses left to take our senior year, the members of
> my class will have the option of doing an independant research/project, and
> Madame thinks the Complete Reference Grammar of Asiteya would count to that
> end (though now it only exists in a Concise edition). What I'm trying to say
> it this: There would be official time in my Academic Affairs-sanctioned
> schedule to work on Asiteya. How's that for a reaction? I'm still in shock.
> Oh, and yes, she's just a tad eccentric herself.
>
I would have liked something like that, but I never shared my
conlanging to my teachers (except my Latin teacher when I was in Junior
High School, who was more concerned with my writing stories -she
encouraged me very much and that's partly why I know want to publish
what I already wrote- than with my conlanging), only to my best friends,
who most of them found it cool or ununderstandable (I was already
considered a bit eccentric so it didn't shock :) ), but never bad
reactions.
> Sally, no objections. Use it and use it well. I know you will.
>
> The Asiteya word for God: a very conculture-y issue. In the creation myth,
> the universe begins when the male and female essences arise spontaneously
> out of Chaos. Choas is noise, infinite noise, and in this noise came the
> sound stream "Ona wa ih ona sa" <we are and we do>, the genesis of the
> female essence E (/e/) and the stream "A sa ih a wa" <I do and I am>, the
> male essence, In. (Shall I expound on the cultural attitudes toward gender
> implicit in this part of the myth? No? I really should get around to
> subscribing to Conculture.) And of course the whole pantheon is descended
> from Their union. Praticed religion is more or less the cult of Iyana, the
> Mother, grand-daughter of this union. However, the supreme being,
> recognized but in practical terms ignored, except by a few upstart
> philosophical heretics, is Eyala, also the word for truth. Eyala is the
> Force in the universe with a Plan, known only to Itself. It is the Force
> that caused the seemingly random but metaphysically correct words to be
> "spoken" to begin the world. But It doesn't interfere, It doesn't need to.
> Everything goes according to the Plan no matter what value judgements gods
> or humans come up with, calling one good and another evil.
> Okay, enough. Good night.
>
I like that very much! The idea of the creation of the Universe coming
from the chaotic noise taking suddenly a certain pattern is very good,
and even echoing with the current explanation of the Big Bang with the
quantic vacuum.
> Jennifer Barefoot
>
> ______________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free Email at
http://www.hotmail.com