Celeste Claire Horner
Letters are Pictures!
W looks like a wave of water, and
the w-sound is related to water words
around the world:
English: water, wave, wash, wet, dew, weep, well, wax (excludes water)
flow, fluid, liquid, swallow,
drown, thaw, straw, swirl, swim
wade, wake, wring, whirlpool
Spanish: agua, "agwa", water
French: eau, "ohw", water
Hawaiian: wai, water
Egyptian: mw, water
Chinese: 水 shuǐ, "shwi", water
Hopi walalata , waves
You can become more multi-lingual in minutes once you recognize commonly shared patterns between sound and meaning around the world! A new, alphabet symbology master key helps solve the mystery of why words mean what they do, dissolves international communication barriers, and reveals unsuspected dimensions of visual beauty in languages across the world!
noW is a splash of water!
The word "now" is traced to the Greek νῦν "nun", and Latin "nunc". These emphasize the none, nothing, nunca (never in Spanish) and vanishing zero-point-like aspects of the fleeting instant of now.
Using alphabet symbolism, additional meaning anchors visually to the letter W, the image of a splash of water. "Now" is the brief interval of time in which a splash of water appears flash frozen in the shape of a W-shaped crown. A narrow, n-shaped finger or column of water rises in the center, and a glittering orb, a droplet of water, the O, is suspended in the air above!
W is a crown.
The most eminent of W's several interpretations is the shape of the crown of a queen. The W shape applies to the wide open petals of a floWer.
The Chinese word for flower, 花 huā, is pronounced "hWA". Pictographically,
it expresses "heavenly cups of color", "colors waving in breeze", "hand gathered", or "living rainbow crowns."
h - hand
H - ladder to heaven
H - living (Hebrew, Hieroglyphs),
throat, breath, DNA
W - waving in breeze
W - wide, wild, wings, glow
U - cup
A - eye looking down, color
WA - wide color, rainbow
(Other W's: wave, wing, windows, elbows, sawtooth, wide, narrow, and waist)
The Chinese word for flower, 花 huā, employs H, meaning heavenly, with H interpreted as the statospheric top rung of the world's Highest space ladder. H started out as a fence "heth" in Proto-Sinaitic, but over time, got rotated. If you rotate the fence shape, you can build bridges, ladders, and double-pane windows to let in Helios, the sun! Today, the Chinese character for sun looks like a window. A small letter h, is the hand that picks flowers. H represents life, the ladder-like DNA helix, and the hallowed breath of life from the branching hallways of throat and lungs. U is for the flower's nectar bearing cup, U is for the bee's tongue that slurps up the ambrosia ! W is a crown of petals, and alludes to water, glow, wide, wings, growing, wild strewn, and waving in the wind. A is an eye looking down. "Ayin" meant eye in Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician, although it took an eye-like O shape. Color, is technically indicated by A, interpreted as the angle of the color wheel spectrum. Ho is whole, white light; HW is whole light fanned out into a rainbow.
So the letters in the Chinese word for flower, 花 "hWā", can actually be used to draw a hand-like flower, and translate to a visual extravaganza: "heavenly, living splashes of color", "flowers are heaven's water colors", or "My eye looks down, my hand picks a crown of colorful petals", or "flowers, a handful of color." You can mix and match the visual interpretations of letters to bring out other facets of meaning and create your own poetic definitions! Visual Super Language is a fabric of understanding woven from many angles!
W as a wing appears in the verb flew, and many bird names such as: owl, fowl, hawk, penguin, swan, wren, warbler, swallow, quail, and crow.
The elbow, homologous to the wing, is also depicted by w, as is the elbow-related action of arm-Wrestling, and a hugging embrace to the heart, gathering "With" affection, the wide elbow gesture of shrugging with beWilderment saying "I don't know", and spreading arms to the sky with Wonder.
The word "two", is traced etymologically to Latin and Greek "duo", but this does not justify the word. Visually however, we can reason that the letter "t" is the three-toed foot of a bird. W is a pair of wings. O represents the eye. A bird has two feet, two wings, and two eyes!
Y is two HANDS raised to the SKY, or a single hand with an open palm. The case for Y representing hands is extensive: The letter "yodh" in the Mother Language of Phoenician, looks like and Y-shaped hand and bent elbow, and means hand. "Yud" يد in Arabic is hand. Yòu, 又 in Chinese is hand. In Hebrew, יד, transliterated YD, is hand.
English words related to the Y hand include: mY, Yield, paY, spraY, awaY, Yearn, Yank,
Yo-yo, Yawn, plaY, and praY.
The word "MY", related to Greek "μου", and Latin "mea", indicates possession. Appropriately, it is composed of two letters that depict the hand, the means of aquiring and holding things. M is the lines on the palm which fortune-tellers interpret as omens of destiny, and Y for the open yielding, giving hand.
Y represents the sky. It is two hands yawning, yearning, praying, questioning the universe's wide mysteries, asking, "why?", addressing the divinity dwelling in the sky beyond where the birds fly. In French and Spanish, "Y" means "there." Up up, and away! Yonder. Beyond!
Recognizing that Y represents the sky, helps us to understand "FLY" as F-feathers L-elevate Y-sky; and decode the Native American language Kalapuya in which "YA-PO-AH" means very high place. Ya-po-ah is constructed of Y for sky; A above; P in Greek π, plateau; O over; A above; and H, for high. "Muyal" the Mayan for word for cloud refers to waters in the sky. Mu means miasmic waving waters as in maya, Sanskrit for the mists of cosmic illusion, or in the hieroglyphic MW; U is up; Y is sky; A means above; and L is the flowing cloud layer and perhaps long streaks of rain. Muyal, the clouds, are the waters on high, that are like hands (M) that mask the sun and pour the rain.
Knowing that Y represents the sky helps us to decode Yǔ 雨, the Chinese word for rain.
It can be interpreted as Y for sky with falling water droplets; and U for bUckets of water poUring down from a T, Thunder and lightning cloud!
月
The Chinese word for moon is 月 Yuè. In this case, Y is sky; U is the crescent moon, and e is the metaphorical eye of the night sky, the left eye of Ra in Egyptian cosmology; a depiction of the moon on the horizon; the reflection of the moon in water; or the phase of the moon with one half invisible. If you parse the word YooWE, the moon is the hand that stirs the waves (W) and determines the level ( E ) of the tides.
O is the SUN. This is the meaning of the O in words like HOT, NOON, HORIZON, ONE, BROWNED, GOLD, GLOW, YELLOW, and SHADOW, an X=sh shield of the sun's glow.
Pictures in the alphabet helps us recognize the unity behind diverse expressions for the same thing, for instance, "Hello!" Various greetings and exclamations may actually share origin as odes, obeisances, and ovations to the emergence ( J ) of the glorious rising sun: HELLO, HOLA, ALOHA, BONJOUR, JAMBO, CIAO, GOOD DAY, OK, OH, Olé, WELCOME, and WOW!
AO (Maori, dawn.
A= Arising, O =Sun.)
el SOL ( sun, Spanish)
(e - sunset, S - rise and set sinusoid
S = spectrum, signal, sign, WISDOM
O = light; L = light.
HOY (today, Spanish)
H=HEAVEN, high ladder
O = Sun, light
Y = praYing hands up, skY
OWR אוֹר (Hebrew, light:
O=Sun, W=glow, R=radiance
Let there be Light: "Yehi Owr!")
OM ॐ (Sanskrit, mystical syllable)
O, the Sun of mystical Enlightenment emerging from the (M) mental mists of माया Maya, the mundane illusion of me, myself. Maya translates pictographically into a watery ( M marine , aquatic A )
miasma of distracting ( Y ) hand waving.
T a i Y O 太陽 ( Japanese, sun)
T=GREAT, thick, primordial tree; A=above;
i = sun reflected in water,
Y=praYing hands up, skY, O=Sun, light)
YOM יְוֹם (Hebrew, day: Sky light)
Y=praYing hands up, skY, O=Sun, light
M = mountains, monde=world, mer=sea.
Sun in sky, above the mountains.)
ZǎO 早 (Chinese, early:
Zero point of dawn
A=arising above; O=sun.)
DAWN
The meaning of the word "dawn" emerges naturally from its letters: D, is the disk of the sun emerging from the horizon. A, is an arrow pointing up, indicating arising. W is the widening glow of the sun's glorious crown of light. N is a nativity scene with a woman kneeling for birth, the ergonomic posture for gravity-assisted labor favored in ancient times, as depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
N, the woman kneeling for birth, is strongly associated with femininity and birth world-wide. The Sumerian word for woman was "nin", the Chinese word for woman is 女 "Nǚ". "Né" means born in French. Knee in French is "genou". Related words in English include "feminine", "nurse", "pregnancy", "nativity", "gynecology", and "nun". The N may also depict a person kneeling in deference to nobility to divinity. The monastic "nun" is composed of N for feminine and N for kneeling in prayer. The letter N is doubly appropriate!
Letter by letter, "dawn" means the birth of the rising sun. Words for dawn in other languages use the same letters! The Egyptian hieroglyph for dawn is transliterated "ANDW". The Arabic word for light is ضوء " DAW' ". The Chinese word for dawn, is 旦 "DAN", a cubist rendering of the sun hovering above the horizon.
The rising sun D also helps us interpret "Dōng" 東, the Chinese word for East, place of the rising sun.
The letter G depicts a Gate, which traditionally faces East. The letter G, the grand finale of "Dong" is a rotated image of a person facing the GIANT, GLOWING sun on the horizon.
Words like MIND and IDEA, which resonate with the metaphor of a dawning realization, employ the letter D.
The word FOLD is pictographic. F depicts fingers which crease a O, circular disk at an angle L, ultimately forming a semi-circle D!
Words and letters reflect on each other, bottom up, with letters seeding the blooming flower of word meaning; and top down with words casting a shadow of implication on letters. You can use this relationship to deduce new meanings and advance your own discoveries! Please e-mail me, or share your news with the discussion forum! (TBA)
O is the Sun, D is the Dawn: How words bloom from pictures in the alphabet by Celeste Claire Horner reveals the international symbolism of each letter of the alphabet, reinventing the dictionary with pictographic definitions which supply the rational justification for words from a global perspective. Finally, the power of the technique will be demonstrated as readers use their new insights to translate songs and text from Chinese, Egyptian, Hebrew, Sumerian, Swahili, Australian aboriginal Anangu, Cherokee, Mayan, and more!
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celeste @ words-in-bloom.com 5-22-2017
11-25-2018
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