Re: New Kelen Stuff

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:05:06 -0700, Sylvia Sotomayor
> <sylvia1@...> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I've added more pages to the Kelen site.
> >http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html  is the main page, and
> >http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen2.html  is the page with the
> links
> >to all the new material.
> >New stuff includes:
> >a folktale from the North,
> >an example of box script, and
> >a page on the ceremonial interlace alphabet.
>
> The latter is a real masterpiece! And the way it's presented is neat.
>
> What's the origin of the interlace script? Anything kipu-like, reformed
> for writing on plane surface? (Sorry if I missed an earlier discussion).
>
I am a big fan of old Celtic manuscripts. I can do calligraphy in the old
uncial and carolingian scripts, and I can do knotwork. It really isn't all that
hard once you know how. When I was young and had first learned how to divide
numbers, I would fill whole notebooks of long division. This was a way of
doodling for me.

After I learned knotwork, I would fill whole notebooks of
knotwork. I had read a bit on Ogham and thought that if you were going to make a
code that looked like decoration, why not make a code out of knotwork? As to
why the Kelen came up with this, I have no idea beyond the sentence or two on
the page.

I'm glad you like it.

>
> Basilius
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