[Vilturj] Glyphs - Installment Four.
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moonvoiceThe glyphs in this batch are:
- Karijiana
- Y'aczir (spirit illness)
- Lesavny
- Funeral
- L'yuvotn'r
- Vasilia
Funeral
This one I feel is fairly self explanatory. This is a depiction of a funeral, though in Vilturj there are many different types of funeral (sky funerals etc.) this is probably the most common 'catch all' glyph. Literally, it shows a person beneath the ground, but symbolically it shows a person beneath the middleworld, in the underworlds. The 'L' beneath them shows the first stair or step they will take towards their ancestors. The circle above the ground is representative of the mirror that wards away death for the living, but also the stone or object that will mark the death of the person.
L'yuvotn'r (pron. lyoo-VOT-near)
the rain. A ‘dapper’ rain god who is very well-mannered and in contemporary depictions carries an umbrella. He is often depicted as four lines with circles beneath them. These lines represent the falling rain, the circles beneath rain drops, or the seeds he will nurture with his rain.
Karijiana
The sun. A goddess who is wedded to D'miezak'r as her incarnation as the midnight star, Zniliajana. This glyph is at first fairly explanatory, the top part representative of the sun, the rounded triangle beneath representative of the vagina - literally 'sun' 'goddess.' But the rounded triangle also represents her as the midnight star. And additionally represents the earth, as the sun beats down upon it and gives the earth life, so she beats down upon us and gives women life.
Y'aczir (pron. ee-ACK-zir)
Soul sickness or illness. The circle represents the soul, and the cuts going into it essentially represent invasion. The sickle shape cutting into the circle is also literally representative of a scythe or a sickle.
Lesavny
This is the most common glyph for Lesavny, it obviously hails back to the rune Algiz - though to be fair the upright fork is a fairly worldwide / universal symbol. This glyph represents the forest - the outward branches of all the trees from the taiga to the thicker forests as one travelled further South - it also represents the branching reindeer antler, which Lesavny sometimes wears upon his head. Finally it represents a horned man standing upright, his arms outstretch and his hands outstretch, encompassing the earth with its power.
Vasilia
the wind. The stars. Also a goddess of paths and spiderwebs, as well as spiders. Her symbol was a depiction of the wind with a ‘star’ at the end, as well as a leaf (or feather) with two circles either side depicting stars. She is a maiden deity, often depicted as a pale woman wearing white.
- Karijiana
- Y'aczir (spirit illness)
- Lesavny
- Funeral
- L'yuvotn'r
- Vasilia
Funeral
This one I feel is fairly self explanatory. This is a depiction of a funeral, though in Vilturj there are many different types of funeral (sky funerals etc.) this is probably the most common 'catch all' glyph. Literally, it shows a person beneath the ground, but symbolically it shows a person beneath the middleworld, in the underworlds. The 'L' beneath them shows the first stair or step they will take towards their ancestors. The circle above the ground is representative of the mirror that wards away death for the living, but also the stone or object that will mark the death of the person.
L'yuvotn'r (pron. lyoo-VOT-near)
the rain. A ‘dapper’ rain god who is very well-mannered and in contemporary depictions carries an umbrella. He is often depicted as four lines with circles beneath them. These lines represent the falling rain, the circles beneath rain drops, or the seeds he will nurture with his rain.
Karijiana
The sun. A goddess who is wedded to D'miezak'r as her incarnation as the midnight star, Zniliajana. This glyph is at first fairly explanatory, the top part representative of the sun, the rounded triangle beneath representative of the vagina - literally 'sun' 'goddess.' But the rounded triangle also represents her as the midnight star. And additionally represents the earth, as the sun beats down upon it and gives the earth life, so she beats down upon us and gives women life.
Y'aczir (pron. ee-ACK-zir)
Soul sickness or illness. The circle represents the soul, and the cuts going into it essentially represent invasion. The sickle shape cutting into the circle is also literally representative of a scythe or a sickle.
Lesavny
This is the most common glyph for Lesavny, it obviously hails back to the rune Algiz - though to be fair the upright fork is a fairly worldwide / universal symbol. This glyph represents the forest - the outward branches of all the trees from the taiga to the thicker forests as one travelled further South - it also represents the branching reindeer antler, which Lesavny sometimes wears upon his head. Finally it represents a horned man standing upright, his arms outstretch and his hands outstretch, encompassing the earth with its power.
Vasilia
the wind. The stars. Also a goddess of paths and spiderwebs, as well as spiders. Her symbol was a depiction of the wind with a ‘star’ at the end, as well as a leaf (or feather) with two circles either side depicting stars. She is a maiden deity, often depicted as a pale woman wearing white.
