The 36 Elements
The 36 Elements
What are the 36 elements, according to the Elkar?
The man of science is perceiving and endowed with vision whereas he who is ignorant and neglectful of this development is blind. The investigating mind is attentive, alive; the mind callous and indifferent is deaf and dead. - 'Abdu'l-Bahá
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36?
What a surprise.
May I guess they have determined them to be 36 by adding 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 together?
What a surprise.
May I guess they have determined them to be 36 by adding 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 together?
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http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 4&start=50zompist wrote:Traditionally they talked about 36 elements. More important in their thinking, however, are the kunmegg-nquj, the Five Noble Substances: marble, quartz, gold, iron, and silver.So Haleza Grise wrote:Which reminds me - do the elcari have an elemental theory?
I'm not surprised you don't remember, it was almost 2 years ago.
The man of science is perceiving and endowed with vision whereas he who is ignorant and neglectful of this development is blind. The investigating mind is attentive, alive; the mind callous and indifferent is deaf and dead. - 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Actually, I would be highly interested in this answer as well, for reasons of my own. My Precursor language is supposed to have multilayered meanings, one component of which will be elemental association. Anything with a large pool of elements (36 is only six less than the number of letters I have, 42) will be highly useful.
If anybody is interested, I'll be posting something about that here shortly (in the Precorsors: con-archaeology thread).
If anybody is interested, I'll be posting something about that here shortly (in the Precorsors: con-archaeology thread).
And pressing of the Undefined/The definition on my mind
Held up before my eyes a glass/Through which my shrinking sight did pass
Until it seemed I must behold/Immensity made manifold
Whispered to me a word whose sound/Deafened the air for worlds around
Held up before my eyes a glass/Through which my shrinking sight did pass
Until it seemed I must behold/Immensity made manifold
Whispered to me a word whose sound/Deafened the air for worlds around