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The 36 Elements
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:39 am
by Rory
What are the 36 elements, according to the Elkar?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:12 am
by Miekko
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?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:34 pm
by zompist
Sorry, I'm not finding where I mentioned the 36 elements... where was this now?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:04 pm
by Rory
zompist wrote:So Haleza Grise wrote:Which reminds me - do the elcari have an elemental theory?
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.
http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 4&start=50
I'm not surprised you don't remember, it was almost 2 years ago.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:26 pm
by Ezekiel
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).