[despammed] Numerology & "Letterology"

Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> I don't believe in numerology, astrology, or related -ologies, but I
> thought it might be fun to add something similiar to the conculture
> surrounding my conlang.  :)  A minority group (which I think might be
> geographically centered, rather than scattered geographically but
> concentrated, say, socio-economically) believes that the "personalities" of
> the letters that make up your name (and other words) have meaning and
> affect things.
>
> There is (or, more accurately, there will be) a children's story involving
> all the letters of the alphabet.  Each letter has a name it's called by in
> the story, separate from the sound-name -- eg, the first letter <g> is
> simply |gih| /gI/, but it also has the nickname |Gilek|, which means
> "lonely."  This could be used to make clear which letter you mean --
>
> A:  "Che'emaeliv ne gih."        (Write G.)
>      /tSe"meilIv nE gI/
> B:  "Ne ghih?"                   (Gh?)
>     /nE xI/
> A:  "Kre.  Ne gih, ne Gilek."    (No.  G, the Lonely One.)
>     /krE  nE gI  nE gI"lEk/
>
> Like radio-names for Roman letters -- C is Charlie, F is Foxtrot, etc.
>
> Anyhow, these nicknames would be standard, known and excepted by everyone,
> because they're part of a widely used children's story for learning the
> alphabet.  But a small group took this letter-nickname-personality thing to
> the next level and decided that entire words had personalities based on the
> individual letters that made up the word.
>
> I'm imagining that they would have very complex, etabnannimous rules wrt
> divining the total meaning of a word.  I would give examples, but I would
> first have to know the individual letters' personalities, and so far I only
> vaguely know about G and K.  I'll keep you guys posted, of course.  ;)
>
> So, comments?  Similar conlang-related conculture weirdness in other
> people's works?
Sounds sort of like how the Hebrew script is treated in the Kabbalah,
although that has more to do with matching letters and numbers.