Letters are Pictures!

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Head:  머리 .  meoli

{ M body; M most, peak; M mind.

E elevate;  e eye, awareness

O over; O face, head;  O eye, awareness

L elevated;  l learning;  L = line, flow of consciousness

i=body and head; head and spine; lit candle, consciousness, awareness }

 

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HAND 손 .  son

SUN 태양 . taeyang

MOTHER 어머니  eomeoni

MOUTH . 입 . ib

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A. AN - Heaven

An (Chinese) - peace, tranquility. Trash can lid on mute nagging shrew. Suppress uppity female. In arms of beloved. Ahhh!  All I need is you. Heaven is where we are together. 

Tian (Chinese).

(A)MR Egyptian . meaning

An (Sumerian)

Chan (Mayan)

ANGEL, ABOVE,   angel bull ped in air Watch tall cranium, great chin

 

A. AQUATIC

Atl (Aztec)

Ama (Cherokee)

A (Mayan?)

A (Sumerian)

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Arrow

Book bubble butterfly back . Boy lying on his back blowing bubbles, eating bread, and reading a book with butterflies 

 

Cup, Dawn, egg, feather, G, H ladder, I light, J jump, K claw, L leg M mouth N kneel

O Pedal . Quote question Quill . . R rotate, radiate

S serpent T tree U up . V travel, birdsm wake .  W water  X shadow, Y hand Z zap

 

 

 

 

F. FEATHER, flight, fragrance, perfume, finger

fang

fur, fringe

FLOAT .   FROZEN .  FILM

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OO. flood, blood, mood of the waters

I had cracked part of a code! Hopi was one of the Native American languages used to encrypt secret messages during World War II, and the sacred depths of the language are still sheltered in privacy. Nevertheless, because the course of my life has exposed me to many languages, each letter of the word spoke to me, conjuring a vision of an expanse of waving water.

In particular, the first letter W looked like a wave of water. The letter A also resembled a WAVe, an Aquatic peAk! Upon reflection, I realized that the letter W  (and A ) winds its way through numerous words related to water around the world! 

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English:     water, wave, wash, wet, dew,                        weep, well, wax (excludes water)  

Spanish:   agua, "agwa", water

French:   eau, "ohw", water

Chinese:  水 shuǐ, "shwi", water 

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I learned to see beyond the differences between languages. Pursuing the common threads, international patterns between sound and meaning emerged, beginning with letters like W (water), M (marine), and A (aquatic) which are related to water.  I have discovered that every letter is a picture! Each letter is a potent symbol of a constellation of ideas!

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It is time to reinvent the dictionary to give more poetic influence to the definition of words and to overcome communication barriers between languages! Dictionaries tell you what words mean, but they don't tell you why. Etymologies give precedents, but generally don't include a rationale or derivation from first principles. The original inspiration for words remains a mystery, often lost to the mists of time. But if you convert words to pictures, a satisfying justification for words becomes apparent.  

 

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For instance, the dictionary says the word "now" derives from the Greek "nu", and Latin "nunc". But that doesn't answer the question of why or how  the word "now" comes to mean an instant of time. But using the meta-language symbolism of the letters N-O-W, you get the image of a splash of water:

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NOW

n - nail, finger, neck, nose, knee

      prominence, column. Pen...

      Things that stick out like

      a tongue.

Narrow. Thin. In. Center.

point. node.

O - water droplet. H2O

W - water, wave, crown, wings.

      Wide. 

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The word "NOW" evokes the brief interval of time in which a splash of water appears frozen in the shape of a W-shaped crown, with a narrow finger-like column of water rising in the center, and a glittering orb, a droplet of water, suspended in the air above.

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(The word "NOW" also translates to a bulls-eye, the zero point of the now. N is the central point. O is a surrounding ring, and in Egyptian hieroglyphs, W equals OO, indicating plurality. In metalinguistics, OO is double concentric rings (or a tube) radiating into the distance. Now would be an infinitely deep well, or endlessly high peak.)

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W also depicts the CROWN of petals in a FLOWER, the widening spray of water in a SHOWER, the golden crown of a queen ("QWeen"), or the GLOW which appears at the awakening of DAWN.  

O is the sun. WOW!

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(花 "HuWā",  Flower, in Chinese

              H = heaven, sun, rainbow?

                          hand, throat, breath

                 h = HAND, chalice . 

 U = cup, up. Tongue, out. Under, down.

  W = crown, water, splash, dawn, wave

                 A = is an eye looking down

            - heaven splash color?,  ) . heaven's water color

Looking down, I see living rainbows

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H = HEAVEN, throat, helix,

breath, living, water, hole

channel, vessel, chalice

SUN

h = HAND, chalice

h = hand, chalice, channel, FLOWER

U= UNDER, CUP

W= WATER, WINGS, CROWN

       splash

A= APEX, EYE, angle, aroma, 

aperture, opening, FLAME

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W  AAA

  H .     \         /

  U

         I

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Celeste Claire Horner

Water .  Feathers  Flowers

 

A widening fan of feathers forms the wings with which a fowl, such as a hawk or an owl (swan, crow, wren, warbler, or swallow) flies up and  away. The wing is homologous to our elboWs, which pivot as we arm-wrestle, which widen as we yawn, or shrug with a gesture of  "I don't know" bewilderment as we question ("qwestion") our destiny wondering, "Why, oh why?"

 

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You can make your own discoveries! When you read a word, examine the letters. Ask yourself, what does each letter look like? How does each letter relate to the overall meaning of the word? You can use the relationship between words and letters to deduce meaning. Letters seed the bloom of words, and words cast light which tints the connotation of letters.  Ancient ancestral languages like Phoenician, Proto-Semitic, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Chinese oracle bone script were pictographic. Over time, the connection between the elements of newer writing systems and real world objects was lost. But by comparing and synthesizing what we know about language around the world today and in the past, we can recover and reverse-engineer the lost visual dimensions of our words!

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If you make a discovery, or can contribute a pictographic translation of a song, story, or text from your culture, please e-mail me, or share it with the discussion forum!

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Letters are pictures, and language is a puzzle! Let's explore the mystery together! In O is the Sun, D is the Dawn, I share what I've found about a WORLD LANGUAGE MASTER KEY which can help unlock meaning, and reveal beauty hidden in words!

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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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Please donate to register for full electronic access to the preview draft, and first edition of the forthcoming e-book and dictionary, and to SUPPORT CULTURE EXCHANGE with an online world-faire!  

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Thank you!

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celeste @ words-in-bloom.com   5-13-2017