Re: Religious text in Conlangs

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 02:52 pm, Jake X wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> How many of your concultures have religions?  Sacred
> texts?  I have been working on my conculture for the
> Mocteno [who speak Lenmoct.  Hint, these words are related:
> Lenmen means priestess.  So 10 points to whoever defines the
> roots in the three compounds.]
> I was thinking about cultural justifications for the name I've given
> to my language, Lenmoct, and its literal meaning, mother-goddess.
> I was thinking that in their religion the "mother" is responsible for
> giving society their first word and language and so changing them from
> animal
> to human.  So here is the little bit of liturgy I wrote for them.  I
would
> imagine it being recited at a child's birth:
>
> Acg lapyccuascul, li moct ano lyctatec cg en.
> Col eno ciatpetdcea, sapagec cg.
> Ddysatec col.      Tdonatdec cg.
> Col-ga cil cgotddac-cy.
>
> [ax 'lapik,waskul lI mVC 'aNo li'Ca,tEk xEN
> kVl ENo jat'peTk@ sa'pagekx
> ri'satEk kVl   T@'naTEkx
> 'kVl'ga jIl 'xot,Traki_0]
>
> Time-marker womb-dream, the goddess us-feminine-inverse [1] the word.
> The-plural we water-wanting, breathed it.
> Stood the-plural.  Spoke it.  The-pl-past the-general
> woman-collective-present.
>
> In the womb-dream, the goddess made us drink the word.
> We were thirsty, we breathed it.
> We stood.      We spoke it.
> Now we are humanity.
>
> Jake
>
> [1] David Peterson asked me if I could leave out the verb and just
> use genders to imply agent/patient roles.  Well, I used that here.
> This kind of verbless construction (with specific articles, not
general
> articles) is used for phrases like "made us drink"
> where "made" functions like -igi in esperanto.  I just leave out the
> first verb and everything is dandy.  :)
>
> P.S. I'd be very proud if this is used as a translation excercise.
> I'd like to see it in different conlangs and have a collection.  It's
> a little short and unchallenging, perhaps.
>
>
I haven't done any liturgical texts yet, but there are descriptions of
Shayanan religions in the encyclopedia on the web site.

--
Elyse Grasso

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