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[szczekaczz]

John Frederick Tayler, Two sheepdogs resting in the mountains next to a bag and a walking stick

[conalnghing]

Word of the day (Day 5)

Hii!!! Today is day 5 and i'm here with a mostly worldbuilding post. (mostly wordbuilding thursday???)

remember this low quality sickle from yesterday?

this is it now:

As you can see, it looks exactly the same as the "water" root character i showed you yesterday:

(ignore the hook thing: i explained more in the same post from yesterday)

Indeed, the shape of the "water" root word comes from this knife.

As the speakers of my language (or the Windpeople, as i now call them) live in a desert, water is obviously very important to them. Luckily, they have a large, humid marshland and a river delta near where they live, caused by some mysterious supernatural event. (more on that when i flesh it out a bit more)

The plants that grow in the marsh are tall and woody, like bamboo but much wetter. One such type, the One-Wind, grows a waxy, red fruit at the top, to attract birds and insects more easily. Due to the high humidity and large amount of mosquitos, these fruits are rarely harvested, and are considered a delicacy reserved for the royal family and the top few houses of the aristocracy.

The fruits don't even taste that good. By the time they've arrived from the marsh, it's gotten all mushy and gross from the hot weather, and the royals only eat it to show off to their friends and to keep the tradition alive.

Anyways, back to the knife:

(putting the picture here again so you don't have to scroll alll the way back up)

To harvest the fruit, people trained for this job first use the knife to chop down the tall bamboo-like stalks of the One-Wind, which they then tie three or more together with a few reeds for stability. Grooves are cut into the stalk, and the harvesters then climb the stalk with the knife in hand, using it as a grappling hook whenever they feel wobbly and unstable.

At the top of the makeshift ladder, the harvester secures their feet into small grooves cut into the stalk. Then, they hold the knife with their dominant hand, cutting the fruit off and catching it with their other hand. This is the hardest part of the process, as it's dangerous and near impossible. If the fruit drops and smashes into the ground below, the harvester has to repeat the process until they get at least one.

Due to this, the harvesters slowly started to pray to different deities to bless their knife, both for the safety of themselves and the fruits.

This is one of the most popular carvings: (romanization below the characters)

Foitel hòp itel aitel náp

/foitɛl˧ hop˩ itɛl˧ aitɛl˧ nap˥/

N-moon-ADJZ air-N moon-ADJZ VBZ-moon-ADJZ blade-N (sorry if the gloss is wrong its so confusing)

Wind Deity blesses (this) blade

lots of glyphs here, so heres a short explanation for all of them:

foitel: Deity

hòp: Air

itel: Holy

aitel: bless

náp: blade

(Note: "Holy air" is a poetic way to refer to wind.)

The second inscription is this:

Náp o shop lòmpal

/nap˥ o˧ ʃop˧ lompal˩/

blade-N PHRASE INDICATOR water-N foot-N-ADJZ

powerful marsh plant cutter

(Note: "náp shop" means "water blade", but adding the phrase indicator "o" , it turns into "marsh plant cutter".)

This is basically a label for the knife, kinda like a shop label doubling as an advertisement, to let people know what the item is and how powerful it is.

Hope this new type of post isnt too long!! I'll be back with some more characters tomorrow though!!

[juliaknz]

TAKE BACK THE STREETS ‘TAXONOMY OF THE BARRICADE’ Wolfgang Scheppe, 2021 Images © ©Préfecture de Police de Paris; Nero

[jeffybruce]

Gian Paolo Barbieri #wakinguptofashion #photographer #image #fashion #style #alachanel #recamier #1975 #walteralbini #mood #aura #vogue #gonetoosoon #timeless #classic #iconographic #ingemarielamy #1000words #elegance #coromondel #soigné #daydreaming #holdit #click https://www.instagram.com/p/CM9ffsShPmyqlivtaukP3mwdwqIc6V4wvOmTz40/?igshid=1xe3p83up3a0g

[josephloughborough]

The Mischievous. 50/70cm. Something just off the drawing board. Playing with iconagraphic imagery... . . . #josephloughborough #charcoal #drawing #visualart #goldleaf #guilding #collector #artcollector #interiordesign #pastel #contemporarydrawing #unisonpastels #oilbar #iconicart #iconographic #cherub #putti #fineart #portraitpainting #surrealart #expressionism #neoexpressionism #hell (at Shoreditch) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7syEJgnebn/?igshid=gcsovmp8plev

[bigdaddycreel]

_mode.3_a waken • another one of these weird stream of consciousness illustration things... idk what to call them? also, couldn’t decide which version was better, and thinking of how to animate? 🤔🌼 - check out more projects like this on my website!

[nofatclips]

Out There by Long Distance Calling from the album Boundless - Director: Michael Winkler

[taxidermatitis-blog]

opening this blog with one of my most popular pieces, an iconographic portrait i did of blue diamond from steven universe, featuring the lachrymose queen herself