*I note that my own four contributions to this list all come post-Trump's election, arising from the act of composing albionspeak.
moths - 3
the Nine Men - 4
origin - 2
overseer - 6
overview - 1
place - 4
POV - 5
port - 3
pulling - 3
scribe - 3
Scribe - 3
seeing (trees) - 4
sequence - 3
serpent - 3
shift (of attention) - 4
shrine - 3
soul - 5
the Sphere - 3
symmetry - 5
telos - 5
1tiger (in dreams) - 3
2tiger (swallowing) - 3
traveller - 1
triad - 3
vector - 2
the Village - 3
Vocation - 3
wampeter - 4
The Table of Contents below is too long to display fully. If you click to the right of these Lessons, you'll see the primary source documents displayed under each. These original sessions are a world treasure.
fog - 2
the Forest - 3
free will - 5
gathering - 2
the Good - 4
granfalloon - 4
Guide - 5
Home - 3
ice-nine - 4
idolatry - 5
immersion - 3
Infinity - 42
intent - 4
the Jewel - 3
the Jewel Net - 3
karass - 4
kite - 3
knots - 3
learning circle - 3
lice - 3
the loom - 3
lucidity (in dreams) - 5
lunar attention - 3
lure - 3
ma’at - 3
mandala - 3
many-mindedness - 3
albionspeak: a draft of language
Haiku Glossary
Following the Oxford English Dictionary, I include below a full list of albionspeak's new vocabulary along with its immediate etymology—where, again strangely, all of these words just happen to be abstract nouns (though verb forms of some of these words also exist).
Following this list then comes my haiku glossary, unfinished still as of 2/21—my official "website deadline," as Go Daddy will no longer "support" this site—though I may still be able to update later. I am eternally amused by Albion's choice of defining these words via haikus, as my teacher-self in time generally regards most English haikus with eye-rolling disdain. I understand, of course, that in unaccented spoken Japanese haikus can be perfect. But English is an accented tongue measured audibly by metric feet, mostly iambs. My distaste for the Japanese form, however, comes mostly from the sad fact that haikus are the only poetic form examined in most American elementary & middle school language classes—and not as an introduction to global culture, but because the teacher themself knows nothing about poetry and has never heard of a iamb. Besides, you can spend a full day drawing a pretty picture, and everyone gets an A! This is like learning Greek mythology from a Vegas casino.
So I never understood (at all, frankly) why Scribe was so wedded to syllabics in his own work, to the degree, for instance, that he counted syllables unconsciously all the time—not as a tic, mind you, but as a cultivated praxis—much as Shakespeare surely dreamed in pentameter. In fact, never in the decades that I knew him did Scribe once compose in standard rhyme or meter. For many of his early years pre-flight, I recall, Scribe's wrote whole books of "sonnets" that were neither iambic nor pentameter nor rhyming nor fourteen lines—which, I confess, still has me quite confused as I can't conceive of a "form" in a different "form." (This is exactly analogous in my mind to the bad logic behind reincarnation or a brain transplant.) Scribe, of course, used the word "sonnet" as a nuanced timbre of an argument, a tone or colour of a formal structure—in short, a metaphor too far for me.
So I know (again) that it is I, not the haiku form specifically, who too casually dismissed the formal challenge and/or possible beauty of syllabics. Thus, Albion's task for me, which arose, like all the best ideas, from necessity, was to use the haiku form above all to keep short my definition. I've already used my swollen exams in albionspeak, especially the matching sections & answer keys, to restate my new nouns, revealing depth & nuance; and I've written at length on several of these terms, of course. But the point of a glossary is to create a direct link between word & meaning, necessarily short.
So the question arises: How short? Haiku was simply Albion's smiling constraint based on brevity, but with a personal, ironic backstory. I do find, however, that in following the 5-7-5 structure exactly, I allow myself full freedom thereafter—meaning, I feel in no way chained to pen-and-ink mountain pools or pagodas. Particularly I've taken a mathematical liking to the vast permutations of even the simplest grammars: Haikus need not comprise a complete sentence, for instance, where a fragment offers a very different algebra from a closed idea. I also like to play with the balance among the lines: Where in a word lies its dreamweight? This turns out to be a fun exercise.
Source Key: (1) Scribe; (2) Albion; (3) ouija board; (4) public sources, literature; (5) common term; (6) other
absence - 3
Advisor - 6
albion - 3
Albion - 3
aleph - 4
aliah - 3
anamnesis - 4
anchor - 3
attention - 4
aura - 5
auroras - 3
caring - 3
Charybdis - 4
clue - 3
colour - 3
contact - 3
cricket - 3
daimon - 4
daimon of no - 1
deep ally - 3
dreamweight - 1
eclipse - 3
eternal center - 4
eternity - 5
fiber - 3
figure - 4
filament - 3
firefish - 3
flame - 3
flight - 3
Where albionspeak's new vocab was first introduced: a breakdown.
number of new words % of total here
Scribe 4 4.7%
Albion 4 4.7*
ouija board 47 55.9
public literature 17 20.0
common term 11 12.9
other 2 2.4
Recognize, dear Reader, this analysis reflects only the new terms included here in
albionspeak. To be clear, my teachers introduced many more words as Scribe & I advanced
further into sorcery, dreaming, and other disciplines of self-awareness. Our school is ancient,
and many ancient "lores," forgotten in modern times, have been passed down to us whole.
absence
Advisor
albion
Albion
my own higher soul
is named for his karass role—
a Jewel’s tool only
aleph
a thought as conceived
from the outside looking in—
zoom in if you wish
aliah
anamnesis
anchor
attention
aura
no mark of Cain, your
stained-glass body radiates
like a fingerprint
auroras
caring
Charybdis
steer your course with care—
which life prepares your soul best
to escape this beast?
clue
colour
in two dreams I’ve spied
yellow so pure it exists nowhere
but identity
contact
cricket
daimon
daimon of no
deep ally
walking in bright woods
friends arrange a place & time
to leave time behind
dreamweight
eclipse
to seek your true soul
is like looking for your brain
behind your eyeballs
eternal center
eternity
folly, fantasy
nothing real but our ideal
blue suede shoes—let’s dance.
fiber
anytime we bring
two separate thoughts together
this is what binds them
figure
individual
free will POV vessel;
thrives in narratives
filament
the road not chosen
but still taken by default—
driver fast asleep
firefish
our primal image
of a flyer’s act of choice
as viewed from spacetime
flame
flight
fog
the shrine looms shrouded
in a million thoughts & hopes
sunlight sweeps away
the Forest
untamed dreams still feed
beyond the Village wire
whither we travel
free will
gathering
a scattered thought-cloud
seeded with silver nitrate,
still no rain in sight
the Good
granfalloon
ship of fools knotted
to life’s random flotsam clumps
circling whirlpools
(our) Guide
Home
ice-nine
saturated sea
of minds seeks realignment
in dire mission
idolatry
immersion
Infinity
outside life & death
dark matters don’t matter much—
so much i can't breathe
intent
a noun which describes
the soul reaching as a verb,
pulling its free will
the Jewel
I drink of the Cup
and am free to speak my mind—
what use is wisdom?
the Jewel Net
karass
living galaxy
of cherished star collisions
working together
kite
knots
if mind is a line,
attention bends space like mass,
twisting how we face
learning circles
lice
latched onto our knots
they cause us to scratch old dreams
seeking attention
the loom
an infinity
image common to human
drawn & quartered minds
lucidity (in dreams)
lunar attention
if you care, it’s lost,
but you must stare a long time
very curious
lure
ma’at
why we choose to live
is easy compared to how—
sun versus sunlight
mandala
many-mindedness
more or less human
but atomized and smeared dark
like a Rorschach test
moths
the Nine Men
origin
it’s not that we need
a genesis as much as
a place to return
overseer
trust but verify
the aims & claims of conscience—
one voice speaks wisdom
overview
From up here your whole
Life looks needed & certain—
Why am I worried?
place
port
POV
a god & dog share
identical photon sources—
what would Descartes think?
pulling
scribe
Scribe
seeing
sequence
the serpent
know when you’re awake,
taste the scented breaking dawn,
wait for instructions
shift (of attention)
the shrine
a mountain pyre
warms the departing spirit
dusting off ashes
soul
the Sphere
an allied karass
also working toward the Good
on Earth in history
symmetry
this experiment
controls all variables
but shifts the axis
telos
1tiger (in dreams)
“Infants need not fear:
you are too immature to
eat.” Wait a few years…
2tiger (swallowing)
traveller
triad
the mind who accretes
through binary collisions
seeks a third axis
vector
the Village
whither we travel
in infant dreams, our soul-food
neighborhood heaven
Vocation
wampeter
Arthur’s knights sought naught
but Jerusalem in draughts
of silly language