Lambucius wrote:Many thanks {for the shoutout} However, credit where credit's due (i.e. Anthony Minghella): (skip to 21:36) The Storyteller- The True Bride
You're welcome! And thanks for the link --- I know that allerwonderful of voices. Gone perhaps from the middle world, yet it reverberates still, calling out from the Land of Story!
Iyionaku wrote:Queranaran's writing system is just... WOW.
Gosh, thanks!
I tried to translate this, but what is a "Simurgh"?
In the sawyery of ancient Ehrran, the
sênomereyô was a very wise and compassionate bird who makes appearances throughout tales of kings and princes
of that country. One story, for example, involves how the sênomereyô would come into the king's city to teach Men from her vast store of knowledge and
wisdom. The king being jealous, however, drove the bird away and forbade her from ever entering the civilised realms of Men again. Much saddened, the whole
kindred of sênomereyô departed from Ehrran and took their wisdom to Armenia and Custantiyya in the west beyond the Puntic Sea.
The Ehrraneans got the idea from the Shumur, who lived in the land before them and from whom they obtained the kingship over the Lands Amid the Rivers,
having come out of Punt some six or seven thousand years ago.
In form, the sênomereyô was a great raptor, a bird of the hunt and of the kindreds of the toothed birds.
The Shumur knew of the creature, and the great queen of the sênomereyô, Anzu, makes appearance in the Lugalbanda epic, but she and her whole folk are
much maligned by the Shumur, who viewed them as a kind of demon. The Ehrraneans and the Sandhians, however, both rightly understood the upright nature
of the sênomereyô. The above image is neo-Shumurean and depicts a winged warrior hunting down Anzu and her folk.
In Sandhia, they call the queen of the great eagles Garuda.
What's most interesting about this whole regional mythology, is that it has definite origins rather father to the north, in the vicinity of the ancient realm of Alna.
Up there, on the sunrise foothills of the Spine of the World, there was a great hunter by the name of Niyunur Taravase, and his companion was Kirelle, a great
eagle, sharp of tooth and strong of talons and she was one of the mighty eagles of the highlands, the great
Silver Eagles. Now, Niyunur's own wingspan
was a pretty impressive 17 to 18 feet; but his bird companion Kirelle's wingspan was rather moreso at about 24 feet.
Mostly he wandered in the lands to the east of Alna; but on several occasions, he wandered down into the south. Now prior to this time in the history of the
Daine, some forty thousand years before the present age, they were being pushed out of their western homelands by an invasive kind of wingless folk they
would later call Men. But in Alna and all the lands north of what would eventually become Ehrran, no Men ever set foot. Niyunur lived some twelve or fifteen
thousand years ago and in his wanderings into the south would certainly have come in contact with the
archaic empires of the Punt and the Archaeo-
Shumur. I can but imagine how the Men of those lands and in that time, who couldn't have averaged much more than about 5'5'' would have reacted to a Daine
hunter some seven foot tall and his hunting bird that even a king among Men would have had to tilt his head back to look into its piercing gaze! And his hound
companion, Veriyegu, was no less impressive. I can see pretty easily how such a striking figure could become the source of much mythologising among the
ancient Archaeo-Aryan Men of those lands around the Sea of Sandh!
Lore concerning the battles Niyunur fought in, most against the Hotai of the mountains, but also certain monsters that came down occasionally from the dark
Northlands, can still be heard told by the Daine of Alna and indeed many lands on either side of the Spine of the World. All but unknown to the Daine of the
Eastlands, the records of his time in history and his deeds can still be read in the great libraries of Marloyn, a great monastery of Morvalliê at western
terminus of the Great Road, should you ever care to make the journey in your quest to master the sawyery of The World!