I've been learning to harvest clay and I used my very first batch to write something in Proto-Seraphic! It was a writing system originally meant to be written in clay so I'm very glad it came out so clear. On the left is the unfired tablet and the write is the fired tablet. It ended up cracking and breaking (first time firing greenware whoops) but I don't mind because it gives it an archaeological feel to it!
Ndeytğĺ pr-afwék ju-Tawawí, qe pr-vim ju-Kirawí, qe pr-jahwúvim ju-Tlad.
PFV.FUT.RES=that.[DIST] by (o).HEAT.[SG] of tëwėlwī and by (t).light.[SG] of cīralwī and by (m).crop-PL of tlāod
"By the warmth of Tëwėlwī (the Nurturer; Sun deity), by the light of Cīralwī (the Protector; moon god), by the gifts of Tlāod (the Firmament; earth goddess), it shall be."
I do think of photography as a perfectly legitimate artistic language, but I believe it is underused or misused most of the time. The world is not made out of what we see but from what we do. Photographers who ignore this state of things—and today, as in the past, most of them do—reduce photography to its capacity for recording reality. They don’t take responsibility for their position while looking at the world and end up assuming voyeuristic, sociological or aesthetic stands. Contrary to writing or painting, you have to confront reality while photographing. The only decent way to do it is to make the best out of your own existence. From a moral point of view, you have to invent your own life, against fear and ignorance, and through the action. Intelligence and beauty don’t compensate for passivity. The only way to keep one’s dignity is to confront human condition and social context through direct action. It is a difficult balance one has to keep between the creation of situations to go through and the development of a narrative technique to share one’s perspective. In this process, life overcomes art at some point, and art perverts life. By deliberately living in this constant tension, I expect to go through existence without having to give up lucidity or experience.
Here's the kinship terminology for the Ancestral language! Ancestral kinship is a modified version of Iroquois kinship, where the same gendered siblings of your parents/grandparents share the same term, while separate gendered siblings of your parents/grandparents have differing terms. Diluvians as a species are pretty sexually monomorphic, and biological sex isn't immediately apparent until a diluvian reaches sexual maturity. And in once you do, whether you have male or female sexual organs is largely irrelevant. Your sex is defined as being either homoecious (having both male and female organs), or monoecious (having either male OR female sexual organs, but able to switch when necessary). In Ancestral culture then, your gender isn't dictated by your sex , but by your parenting role; for Ancestral diluvians, the distinction is "mother" vs. "father" instead of "female" vs. "male". Since both homoecious and monoecious diluvians are capable of both gestation and fertilization, the roles are defined as which diluvian gestates (the mother) and which fertilizes (the father).
In Ancestral society, adults are expected to reproduce at least once in their lifetime, and so it is likely that one's parents' siblings have reproduced as well and knowing which term to refer them as will be based on that fact (e.g. if one's mother has a sibling who gestated a child, they would share the same gender of "mother" regardless of biological sex and, as far as kinship is concerned, would be referred to by the same term). Since these terms only are regularly applicable to adults whom have reproduced, you only see these distinctions in generations prior to the ego. In concurrent and future generations, the distinction doesn't matter. This is a remnant of the Proto-Ancestral kinship system, which was a Hawaiian kinship system. For in-laws, the term you'd refer to them as should reflect the term for your blood relatives. Your mother's sister is called "mother", so her spouse would be "father". Your mother's brother is called "uncle", so his spouse would be "aunt". And so on and so forth.
Today's glyph is for the glyph wëu "to fly". Diluvians are able to fly! I haven't figured out the specifics, but I'm thinking it's a form of telekinesis, lifting themselves up by manipulating the electric charge of special lymph nodes in their bodies in relation to the magnetic field of their planet! I don't think it's true levitation, because it's not sustained, they basically launch themselves into the air and glide until the start falling, then relaunch themselves.
Here's another piece I wrote in Proto-Seraphic! I've fired it and it came out on one piece so now this is here forever! It's the first paragraph and a half of Ea-Nasir's complaint tablet translated into Proto-Seraphic
I had an idea to mess around with the formatting of glyphs in Ancestral. Think I'm going to make this an alternate writing style since I do like it so much, but don't want to get rid of the original system. Anyways, here's the Tower of Babel in Ancestral.
And-then entire earth one-thing-of language and one-thing-of word to-speak they-had-been-continuing. All them east-to they-had-been-travelling while, valley Shinar-of country-in it-had-been-discovered, and-then all them there-at to-live they-had-been-starting. And-then all them one-another-to they-had-said: “You-come! Let-us-be-making all us bricks and-then let-us-be-baking that fire-of with.” So, all them bricks stone-of instead and black oil sticking mud-of as they-had-been-using. And-then this it-had-been-said: “You-come! Let-us-be-building all us city all us-for, and-then all us world-of surface-of across to-be-scattered we-are-becoming-not so-that, let-us-be-making all us being-celebrated name all us-for.”
And-then Yahweh people-of seeds-by that-was-built city and tower to-see he-had-been-going. Yahweh he-had-said: “You-look! All them one-head-of people one-thing-of language-of with they-are-being, and-then all them-by to-be-done that-had-been-started this it-is-being. All them-by to-be-done to-be-wanted that-might nothing impossible now it-is. You-come! All them one-another-of language to-be-understanding they-can-not so-that, let-us-be-going all us there-to and-then let-us-confuse all us all their language.” That-from, Yahweh all them there-from world-of entire surface-of across he-had-scattered, and-then all them city gradually to-be-building they-had-stopped.
That babel-of as city that-was-called reason it-is-being, there-at entire world-of language yahweh he-had-confused, and-then Yahweh all them there-from world-of entire surface-of across he-had-scattered because.
