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Enochian, also ritual language

From:Mia Soderquist <tuozine@...>
Date:Thursday, June 10, 1999, 16:26
Sally Caves wrote:

> > IMO, Enochian is what you get when your Scrabble tiles fall on the > > floor. (That's my snotty, obnoxious comment for the day.) > > HA! > > Actually, I'm very interested in Enochian. How many of you (I forgot > who started this thread) know it from some of the recent books that > are available out there... like Donald Laycock's _The Complete Enochian > Dictionary_ (1994), and Donald Tyson's _Enochian Magic for Beginners_ > (1997, I think). Just ordered them off Amazon.com
I don't remember the titles of the books I have... They are at home and I am here at my mom's today. (Obviously, I haven't looked at them too closely in a while. There's quite a bit on the Web, for people who are just curious about what is being discussed.) Ea-luna really was the result of spilled Scrabble tiles... Well, not REALLY... I did separate them into vowels and consonants and then drew them separately to decide on the phonology. It was created to be as different as possible from anything else I had done. All my projects sounded and looked alike to me, so I wanted to do something to break the pattern. But anyway...
> > Not so strangely, Teonaht started out originally as a private, > ritualistic > language of prayer for me. My first compositions were charms and > prayers > and protections and beseechings. The whole point was to separate me > from > my mundane reality.
Muhilamanyani, my first language, was for that same purpose. I had intended to use what remaining notes and compositions I had to revive and expand Muhilamanyani... but that was 1997, and I still haven't done anything with it. Ea-luna was not originally for that purpose, though I have used it that way too. I think that it works for me because I have ended up putting so much time and effort into it and have developed a real emotional attachment to it, even if it isn't the most natural or pleasant sounding language I've ever done. It probably helps that it covers any and all concepts that I want. :) Mia