Re: Numerology & "Letterology"

Just one -- I would expect that the creepy taking-things-way-too-far thing
came before the children's story, and that the "oh, that's sweet, we'll sing
to our kids about it" thing came way after this feature was implemented in
the general religion.  Over time, the whole situation would become less
vital to the beliefs of the majority, but the minority would preserve them.
The tendency as societies progress industrially is to lose the deeper
connections between things -- today Christmas and Easter are far less
religious and far more about tall portly men and cute fuzzy bunnies, than
they were four hundred years ago.

In fact, I'd wager that originally the story was told more loosely, and that
it got connected to specific letters of the alphabet somewhat later, and
that it got used as a childrens' learning tool later than that.

But that's just me.

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> Behalf Of Arthaey Angosii
> So, comments?  Similar conlang-related conculture weirdness in other
> people's works?
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> AA
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