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    Tales of Tyrri Glossaries and Supplementa
    Tales of Tyrri Glossaries and Supplementa
    Tales of Tyrri Glossaries and Supplementa
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    Tales of Tyrri Glossaries and Supplementa

    By Richard Wyndbourne

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    The reader’s guide and reference companion to the novel The Flock of the Shore and other works in the alternative history series Tales of Tyrri. Extensive glossaries are presented in Kettarsse, the language of the Exketi, detailing the flora, fauna, and culture of that people in Gaone Muru, the Middle Coast. Complete maps and their descriptive gazettes, full listings of principal and additional characters so far encountered, genealogies for the principal characters thus far known, a roster of the deity pantheon of the astromantic System of the Cosmikon including their principal avatars, examples of the constellation-derived runic script of the Exketi and more are compiled here for casual readers and fans alike of the Tales of Tyrri and their participants. Included as well is a concise essay summarizing the actual historical and anthropological hypotheses behind the Exketi and other peoples of this imagined world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Wyndbourne
    Release dateMay 25, 2014
    ISBN9780991657148
    Tales of Tyrri Glossaries and Supplementa
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    Richard Wyndbourne

    Richard Wyndbourne is a resident of the Northleft Coast of the US of A since first he earned his own bread and vino; now here, now there. Seattle is where he presently hangs his hat. A sometime scholar of history and society, historical theory is his chiefest design. A graduate of The Evergreen State College, he is a Greener in all senses; wiser thereby, if unfit for a drone’s life therefore. To speak of callings, he’d best put ‘gym rat,’ ‘wordsmith,’ or ‘trekker in the Mountains of Imagination’ on the shingle. What most do with life, family, and career have sifted through his fingers like colorless talc: You too would find them hard to grasp if you reached for the stars. He whistles while he walks, and he walks on. Through the generation just preceding Richard Wyndbourne has read---and written---more poetry than fiction by far, while even so the seventh art has come first with the use of his stray time. He has your acquaintance, and you his, since he is now an accidental novelist. Yes, a figment of words waylaid him in a weak moment, and though he fled from that iridescent specter he was pursued and overcome, and a keyboard thrust into his smiling fingers to tell of Great Tyrri. Apart from that series now begun, the six best books you’ve never read are each one-third done on his laptop. To find the freedom to finish any amongst them, he’s written the one which you now have; a bit-work ladder from out of the Pit, he’ll climb till he gains the sun. Having advanced the proposition that he can live by his wits, he is presently in the discovery phase regarding whether he has any to speak of.

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      Tales of Tyrri Glossaries and Supplementa - Richard Wyndbourne

      Introduction

      Was there a prototype to all ancient pantheistic religions? Yes, in my view. The heavenly pantheon is a single intellectual artifact with a discrete origin in time and space, though revised extensively given its extremely long and diverse history of use, and widely adopted by peoples not native to its development. If so who were its makers? A Vasco-Dene speaking community near to, if not on, the Bay of Biscay in the depth of the Last Glacial Maximum, called here the Exketi. How did they live, and where did they go? These were hunter-foragers who had a close engagement with water transport. Then and thereafter, they and others similar to them in language and lifeway occupied most of the higher latitudes of Eurasia. Prior to the spread of Neolithic practices after 6000 BCE, the Exketi and these related peoples of Old Europe were the most widespread populations between the Atlantic Ocean and the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. While emigrants reached most parts of the Northern Hemisphere subsequently, including Southwest and South Asia, and very probably portions of North America, the Exketi ‘went nowhere’ but still remain. Their genetic complement is still present in peoples alive today where they have always lived. Instead, others arrived; languages changed, and in times beliefs evolved also.

      In capsule, these are the anthropological surmises of actual prehistory utilized in a fictional fashion in the Tales of Tyrri. The pantheon and its associations constitute, in my view, a system of reference rendered from naked eye archaeoastronomy which incorporates a knowledge of the precession of the equinox (the circular shifting of the Earth’s rotational axis over a period of 26000+ years due to geophysical instability in its planetary rotation). The circuit of the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere was divided into sections corresponding principally to when the sun rose at different times in the year, with the knowledge that these locations shifted over very long time frames. Individual ‘deities’ were associated to the planets as the only ‘moveable actors’ in an otherwise fixed cosmic frame, but were also associated to specific sections of the heavenly circuit. These assignments were largely stable, but there were several major recensions (revisions) given the multi-millennial duration of the pantheistic system and the diversity of peoples who came to employ it as their own. An extensive array of archaeo-constellations was elaborated, both large tableaux and smaller discrete configurations, whose imagery often endures in use today estranged from its ancient origins. These conventional designs were useful for gauging observations of alignment and planetary conjunction amongst other purposes. Schematic pictorial representations of these archaeo-constellations became the basis for a very widespread and influential system of glyphs, which in turn formed the bases for runic characters in most ancient written scripts and pre-scripts. These archaeo-constellations also very probably served as the basis of mnemonic peg system, certainly so by later millennia of the system’s use. Much of ‘myth’ symbolically incorporates the imagery of these archaeo-constellations; indeed, myths themselves my well have been mnemonic devices used to recall particular astronomical configurations or events. In this way and others, the pantheistic system likely had both mundane and sacred readings, everyday names and tales known to most and technical reference and esoteric divination known to a few specialists.

      The twelve-section pantheons with which we are familiar in modern times were a deliberate reduction of the older system, for the prototypal pantheon had eight and later sixteen divisions. Specific classes of deities were struck out, or redacted from, the prototypal pantheon to re-create a twelve-section array, implying that the reduced pantheon was made initially in cultic and probably political opposition to the elder system. The use of pantheistic arrays, both primary and redacted, undoubtedly had cultic particulars, most of which will never be known. In later millennia, the system of references ‘encoded’ within the pantheon’s details was formalized at times as ‘organized religious’ practice, if done so divergently by different peoples of separate times and places from a diffused basic system of arcane knowledge, ‘hidden readings’ of commonly observed phenomena and shared tales drawn from them. The primary function of pantheistic archaeoastronomy, however, may have been in the manner of ‘religious science;’ a studied attempt to relate pattern and behavior in the heavens to larger outcomes in earthly environments and experience, both to understand what had happened at the largest scale of events and perhaps to predict what might transpire. Adept celestial observation and interpretation performed within the pantheistic systems was certainly not a practical astronomy, nor either mostly a personal astrology, but most likely a cosmo-physical ‘astromancy,’ an attempt to divine cosmic-scale pattern from observed, empirical phenomena.

      The structure and mythos of the pantheistic system was articulated in a specific language, probably closest to the poorly understood Vasconic languages of Early and Classical Antiquity. ‘The names of things’ were words in Vasco-Dene in my view (an expanded Dene-Caucasian language family), which words in that context may have acquired the aura of a ‘magic.’ The spread of Neolithic lifeways out of Southwest Asia led to the proliferation of other principally Indo-European languages and their speakers in more recent millennia. Despite this, an extensive substrate of non-Indo-European roots and

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