Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Lovecraft's Grave

I find it ironic that a man who was so enamored by the allure of the grave, of the crypt, of the bat-invested vault and ruin, revealed or thought little of what was to become of his earthly remains once his soul drifted off into constant sleep. I do not believe it was necessary to care. When he finally died of malnourishment and cancerous complications his remains, so I believe, were interred in the family grave of the Lovecrafts, in Swan Point Cemetery, in the north of his hometown of Providence. Afterwards there was no large distinction as to where he rested, for only a few selected followers persisted to honor his work and his work was much obscure to society. Arkham House was established, decades passed. Although I know little of what happened, apparently a group of adamant followers who had a hand in the revival of his literature across the decadent boredom-glazed subcultures of America got together and collected enough money to afford his name a separate gravemarker.

I had the luxury of being able to visit this cemetery while in the area of Providence. After seeing photographs of the marker through the internet, as well as securing directions to its location within the graveyard, I had a picture of a rather small grave with the simple lines inscribed on it, in a whitish marble-like stone, described as being behind the central family grave. I turned off my cell-phone and began walking among the graves, the ones in the front being of a more recent internment. This latest batch comprises a diverse lot, of Smiths and Cohens and Gonzalezes, yet I noticed as I traveled deeper that the stones too were becoming much more advanced in age. I saw a few graves dating from the early 1900's, such as 1901 and 1921, which took place during Lovecraft's time. I took the prescribed route towards the left of the cemetery, passing the large Barnaby Monument which can be seen and reached upon entering the estate, taking a left from there and continuing forward until the mentioned T in the lane became visible. There I saw a large column inscribed with the name "PHILLIPS" and my heart began palpitating (although it did not mark the name of the author). A brief inspection of he area allowed a glimpse of a series of trapezoidal-prismic stones behind this column, where I saw the name "LOVECRAFT". They were his immediate genus. I stepped around the left of the column and saw a singularly marked stone, much like the others but adorned with much later features by lede outside the graveyard staff. As in the photograph, there were small stones and coins placed atop the thin upper edge, and at its foot lay several cards or slips of paper advertising various places. I did not inspect them in great detail. One of them seemed to be a parking ticket.

I was astonished that at first I could not see Lovecraft's name, because even in the sunlight the light was uniform across the stone's face. It was much smaller than I had imagined, carved of such an unworthy stone that its name was hard to read. Squatting at an angle around it I finally read the anticipated lines:

HOWARD PHILLIPS
LOVECRAFT
AUGUST 20 1890
MARCH 15 1937
__________

'I AM PROVIDENCE'

I am glad that one of his favored phrases was inscribed on his gravemarker. This I feel is a great honor to him. The rest was very unimpressive, the stone being tiny in comparison to the majority of the markers, and I did not yet know whether to clean up all of the apparent trash laying around it.

I did not have much time to be there. I knelt before it in the small space between the stone and the large column, effectively hidden from any bypassers, and looked one last time before closing my eyes and breathing the air. I stayed here calmly for some minutes in silence and honor to him. It was incredible that I was kneeling, praying in some sort of weird pagan form, before the memorial of HPL's life. At the moment it did not feel incredible however. Everything was calm. Then I rose and left, having achieved my purpose. The anniversary of Lovecraft's birth is in less than a month. I published a memorial to him two years ago in this weblog.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Kyroi Vocabulary List

NOUNS

aia                    anything; something (ex. aia silua – some forest)
aila                   wing, armpit; aisle, corridor
aksi                  idea, notion, clue, hutch, take (also seen as nema – a take); axis
ami                  friend
ara                   hyperborean, noble
byla                 evil (a specific evil); fester; derivatives: bylen – hideous; bylainen – hideously
garmjuna         powered, fuelled
jaka                  jacket
jaimi                race, breed; derivatives: jaima – aeon, emission, archetype
jana                  path
jantra               device, instrument, machination
jara                  field, yard, garden; sea (poetic speech)
jena                  comrade
joga                 yoke; discipline
jyla                  winter, end of the year
jylaina              time (mostly in reference to the time of the year); season
jylaini              season, month
jyleta               calandar, schedule, framework of time, timeline
kaina                key (to unlock something)
kaisa                cheese
kasa                 sourness; derivatives: kasen – sour
kara                 hair (specifically for darker hair, on the head)
keiela               keratin, substance like hair
keiva                cover
kela                  hair (specifically on the head) (from the word hell – to be light)
kelaina             hair, volume of hair
kelaini              hair (specifically a strand of hair)
kesa                 kitchen; wares, items
kesi                  oven
keta                 number; derivatives: ketona – calculator
kino                 cinema
kiuna               collection; gallery
kleta                blouse, top (clothing); key (on a keyboard or piano)
koina               woman, female; derivatives: koini – girl; valkoina – valkyrie
koipi                head (of a person or other animal)
koiva               chamber, cave, cove; shore
kola                 chair, seat
kota                 coat, jacket, overshirt
kuni                 dog
kupi                 head (the tip of something)
laimi                sweetness, charm; soft; 
                       derivatives: laima – soft presence; laiminen – sweet, charming, soft
laina                 line
lipsa                 sea coucumber
loima               posture, poise, look; figure, form; derivatives: loimi – gaze, look
loli                   young girl
luia                  lunch
luna                 the moon (of planet Earth); derivatives: luni – moon (of any planet)
maimi              (slang) house
maina               man, male; power
maina               (slang) structure; folder (computing term); 
                         derivatives: (slang) sysma – system structure
majara              basin, field; area
mana                way, manner of doing something
mashina           machine
mesa                side, geometric face, platform,;edge (of a blade)
mila                 thing, component; file (an executable script of data)(computing term)
milaina            structure, construct, build; image; folder (computing term); 
                        derivatives: sysmilaina – system structure
mina                container, receptical; place
minaima          housing
minaimi           house
minona            host
minoni             supplier
moina              familiarity, usualness; derivatives: moinen – familiar, soft; moininen – main
mys                  bog, swamp, moss, moor
noka                device
oina                 vine
oini                  wine
oinja                everybody
paina                stake, fixed point; pledge; plant; settlement, placement; 
                         derivatives: panaina – placement
pela                  hair, fur, coat; fabric, tissue, skin
piano               piano (treated with –a stem)
pila                  garmet, pants; item of clothing; 
                       derivatives: pilona – tailo, seamstress; piloni – stitcher
pilaima            clothes (in general, not belonging to anybody), fabric
pilaimi             garments, clothes
poila                wife
poina               point; purpose; derivatives: (verb) poinoi – to cause
poipa               pupa; pup; bud
ponia               equine-like nature spirits, genitive: ponien; 
                        singular: poni or pona, genitive ponen
popoila            dandelion
pula                 girl (also seen in these other forms: puli, puela, pueli {more familiar})
pyla                 pants (undergarments), underwear, panties
pylaimi             undergarments
pylsina             love
raina                rain
rosa                 rose; red
seiena             chitin (from sena)
seita                homestead, country home, villa
sena                mushroom, toadstool
senaimi           fungus, sponge; derivatives: tylsenaimi – athlete’s foot
silsa                 strand
silua                 forest, woods
sinua                sinew, tendon; cord; fibre
sinaima            fibre, fibres, bundle of fibres
sinaimi             cord; veins, annals, tracks, grooves; supports
sipa                  chip, flake (also soipa)
sipi                   chunk; spark
sipsa                swine
sita                   plow
skui                  shoulder
stymoini           homeland, original place
taka                  time (interval, age); derivatives: takayev – upon a time; ai taka – for a time
tala                   count, number
taleta                roster, counter, device for counting
tana                  weave (instrument)
tiuska                zygy
tiusta                androgyn, hermaphrodite
tosa                  matter, thing
tosaimi             material
tosi                   related, relevant matter
tula                   tulip
tyla                   toe
tylaina              tip, end; vestigial extremity, appendage, branch, ending root
tylaini               tip, end, top
tymaini             belongings
sys                   system
ula                   throat; brook
vaina               something ancient, eldritch; vainen – ancient, old
vila                  armed, supplied
vimana            airship
vys                  water
yla                   smile; also seen as yli

VERBS

broi                  to breathe; derivatives: bri - breath
elmoi               to embrace
emoi                to think, feel, take, believe. you know it from yourself
evoi                 to choose, put out there, elect, put forth
jeroi                 to be called
jevoi                to switch, switch to
jyroi                 to gyrate, turn oneself, spin, revolve
kyroi                to go, do, +a = go to
kyrmoi             to consummate, +a = towards, to, into, inside
kytoi                to fight
kytoroi             to beware
luoi                  to come in lieu of, to comfort, to substitute; luo - instead of, in place of
miloi                to construe, make, assemble
myloi               to consume
nemoi              to think or know, take, grasp, seize, understand, Latin capio
nevoi               to select, decide
pyrmoi             to permeate
pyrvoi              to purvey, tour, scope out, go see
spyroi              to spring, well, come to, fount, come up, spring up
styboi              to have, carry, have up; astyboi = to talk
styloi               to place, set, put
strymoi            to stream, flow, set up; astrymoi = stream on
stymoi             to stem, begin, start
styvoi              to discern, to find, to discover
syvoi               to begin to discern or have an inkling
syboi                to take, select; open (computing)
syrtoi               to read, go over
syvoi                to discern, guess at, calculate, to find, to discover
tyloi                 to count
tymoi               to have; to have a clue, to tell
viloi                 to supply
yloi                  to smile, be lightly
ymoi                to accept, take, take down, write down, record; save, download (computing)
yvoi                 to use, implement, use, send out

Example Sentences:

Nemai st sr takajev ponia i maimi. Kt kr takajev ponia, kymaine kyroima…
(I once thought there was a spirit in the house. If there was ever a spirit, even if that did happen…)

Mis kyrai a maimi sien u takajev.
(I went to her house without it ever happening.)

K nemai a maimo?
(What did you take from the house?)

Kytore a silusenia.
(Beware the forest mushrooms.)

Tymoiu aksi.
(I have no clue).

Tymu aksi, U aksi.
(No clue.)

Kat lolia nemoi senia a siluo ponia ylai a vie.
(When girls pick mushrooms in the forest, spirits smile at them).

Sies jyrai a mie jy stylai koipi a skui mien. Mien yvai a sie: tien bria tolainen tulia moinen, i rainenkeiva tien tylia n'moien, i koiva laiminen poilen mien, nien loimia pyrmoi elmoial se, jyleta i silua nien styboia, jylainia styvoiu mies jy ties, tien kela sr loima mien kevoi, lunainen tosajev.

(She turned to me and placed her head on my shoulder. I talked with her: Your breathes, the warmest flowers of Thule, in cover of rain where your toes are promised, in the sweet cave of my lover, permeated gazes, embracing each other, in the forest of ours the calendar passes no longer discerning time, you and I, only your hair to cover my form as the moonlit night goes by.)

NOTES__________________

Introducing the conlanguage "Kyroi", named after the first word to be invented upon its conception, which means "to go" in the present tense. It was conceived while on a dark road along the mountains of Utah, in the back of a similarly darkly lit van thinking and pondering to myself. In my mind an image of someone shouting in this language came, commanding and saying various things whose English analogy I understood, and by necessity took these words and their meanings down in typing. This passed either at the very beginning of the year 2012 AD or near the very end of the preceding year of 2011. I have since kept the lexicon a secret in my hard-drive, which I will share for the first time here.

I will give the linguistic grammar and a list of various phrases not mentioned in this index, yet which are essential among which are words equating to "would" and "if".

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

English to Black Speech Dictionary


abyss                damad
age                   mazgd (in the sense of an era or period of time)
all                     uk (added to the end of the noun’s agreeing verb)
and                   agh
annal                nak (see record for original meaning)
apparition        drag (see specter for original meaning)
approve           gadat (see say for original meaning)
armory             surzrum
army                hur
arrival              kragum
arrive               kragat
awaken           bukat

bed                  dalg
bedroom          dalgrum
beginning        sadur
bind                 krimpat
bond                krimpum
brain                mash (see mind for original meaning)
break               brakat (verb)
bring                thrakat
burn                 hazdrat (verb) (give off energy)

carry                drahat
chant               dralat
circle                nazg (see ring for original meaning)
class                 hagh (a catagorical set)
cleverness        husurz
conceive          druhat (see give birth to for original meaning)
container         dalg
convince          gimmat (see entice for original meaning)
corpse              nar
cover               bazg (see fortification)
crack                grakat (verb)
crowd              lathum (noun)
cut                   sakat (verb)
cycle                nazg (see ring for original meaning)

dark                 burz
declare             gadat (see say for original meaning)
dirt                   gurz (see ground for original meaning)
disposition       math (see feeling for original meaning)
drawer             dalg
dull                  darz
dumb               darz (see dull for original meaning)
duty                 drar, also: agdrarum

Elves               sind
emperean         urd (see wyrd for original meaning)
employ             uzgat
end                  aragur
entice               gimmat
experience       drum, dram

fate                  urd (see wyrd for original meaning)
feeling             math
field                 dazg (deliciously rolling hills)
filter                 hasrat (verb) (meaning to go through a series of things or sift)
find                  gimbat (verb)
fire                   ghash
first                  ur
fish                  bizg
flame               bal
flood                dirg (noun)
fodder             thrazg (see trash for original meaning)
fortification      bazg (basking in safety)
frame               arzg
fresh                surz (see sharp for original meaning)

give birth to      druhat
grass                gar
ground             ghurz, also: ghurzum

headquarters    thazgrum
he/she              sugh
highness          urum (title)
him/her            sum
him/them         ul (added to the end of the pronoun’s respective verb)
history             mazgd (see age for original meaning)
host                 dumbat (verb) (see house for original meaning)
house              dumbum (noun), dumbat (verb)
hundred           sut

I                       ugh
idea                 hugh (see thought for original meaning)
jaw                  dasharzg

kingdom          durbat
know               balgat

language         mal (noun) (see speech for original meaning)
last                  arag (adjective)
love                 man (Minne)
lurk                  kimpat

mare                mar (class of creatures)
memory           mun
mind                mash
mission            thazg (see objective for original meaning)
me                   mugh, mum

narrate             saghat
nightmare        marum

obituary           narnak
objective          thazg
one                  ash
order                thazg (command, imperative) (see objective for original meaning)

past                  mazgd (noun) (see age for original meaning)
persist              thrazgat (see struggle for original meaning)
person              azg
plain                 dazg (see field for original meaning)       
primal               ur (see first for original meaning)
public               lathum (noun) (see crowd for original meaning)
publish             gadat (see say for original meaning)

race                  hagh (breed of creatures) (see class for original meaning)
read                  badat (verb)
reciprocal         dalg (noun) (see bed for original meaning)
record              nak (noun)
regime             durbum (see kingdom for original meaning)
rest                  sabn
ring                  nazg
road                 dram
room                rum
root                  lath
rule                  durbat (verb)

sacrifice           agd (object to be sacrificed), agdum (action)
say                   gadat
sense               sash
sharp                surz
sharpen            surzat
skin                  bulg
skull                 ghal
sleep                sabnum (noun), simbat (verb)
soil                   ghurz (noun) (see ground for original meaning)
sorcery             hagdum (see witchcraft for original meaning)
space               rum (see room for original meaning)
specter             drag
speak               sughat
speech             mal
split open         grakat (see crack for original meaning)
star                  hastrum
struggle            thrazgat (verb)
sun                   sul
sunset              duzg (dusk)

task                  thazg (see objective for original meaning)
thought            hugh
tooth                dash
tower               lug (noun)
trash                thrazg

undertaking      drar (see duty for original meaning)
unspoiltness     argum (see virginity, original meaning)
use                   uzgum (see employ for original meaning)
usefulness        uzgum

vassal              ragh
virgin               arg
virginity           argum
void                 damad (see abyss for original meaning)

wait                 bimbat
warrior            azgdrar
water              mirz
watch             badat (verb) (see read for original meaning)
way of life       dram (figuratively, see road for original meaning)
which              kur
wicked            bil
witch               hagd
witchcraft        hagdum
wraith              gul (ghoul)
writing             gak
wyrd                urd

you                  tugh, tum

Suffixes

act of               um
around             ar
away from       ab
at, by               am (indicates location)
before, around amb (indicates being in the presence of something)
before              ant (indicates being in front of something)
belonging to    im
gerund             ur
from                us
in                     is
like                  uk
over                 ir
to, towards, at at
under               unt
within              isi, ishi

Planets and Deities
Neptune          Nabash
Uranus             Urash
Saturn              Sadurash
Mars                Mard/Murd
Venus              Inon/Bash, Inon-bash
Mercury           Sadoth
Hister              Histron
Holdra             Hold
Mimir              Mimon
Odin                Udash
The Sun         Hastrum sul
Algol               Hastrum gul
Pleiades         Hazdrum arg
Polaris            Hastrum mazgd
Vega               Hastrum arg