numerology in "Finding Marea"
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edenfalling"Finding Marea" is at 8,200 words. I think I can finish it in four more scenes -- one with Harai doing research, one to tie up Laila's story, one with Harai putting everything together, and a fourth because I know I'll go on a tangent somewhere. Possibly I can talk Laila into telling Marea's story as well, which could be interesting. (I seem to have created another semi-important character kind of by accident, but I'd written myself into a situation where she needed to exist for plot reasons, and she let me get some ideas into the open via a conversation about theology. So, everyone say hello to Sister Josia Agipae, of the Abbey of St. Ithigea in Kos. Yes, that would be Harai's abbey, only several centuries in the past, during Laila's day.)
"Lemonade" chapter 4 is at 1,700 words, or roughly 3/4 written. That might be done sometime this week, unless I get distracted by all my other WIPs.
This is Harai's numerology system, which is widespread in the Doran Empire and the coastal region of Nalus. Comments, anyone? Am I missing really obvious 'elements' that should be signified by a number? (Yes, I know I'm leaving out death, but there's a reason for that.)
0 = sterility, emptiness, the void
1 = potential, solitude, perfection, the infinite
2 = instability, arguments, scales, pendulums
3 = stability, fellowship, the joining of disparate elements
4 = the world, the elements, nature
5 = humanity, the body, desire
6 = a quest, an absence, a journey or a pause along the way
7 = chance, luck, change
8 = foresight, planning, skill
9 = endings, closure, destruction, comprehension
10 = dominion, power, control, fame
11 = innocence, the unknown, the soul, youth
12 = perfection, completion, experience, stasis
13 = imbalance, ill-luck, the unnatural
14 = time, the past, the future, memory, age
15 = war, strife, anger, straight lines
16 = return to beginnings, cycles, balance
17 = creation, breaking patterns, risk, glory
Whether numbers are auspicious or not depends on the context, though 4, 9, and 16 are always particularly significant because they're square numbers. Each number has a shadow or mirror, counting inwards toward 9. So 17 mirrors 1, 16 mirrors 2, and so on, until 9 itself mirrors 0, which is set outside the pattern, as the void is outside of creation.
ETA: Note that this system almost never produces the number 1. In traditional Earth numerology (which goes from 1 to 9), you reduce numbers by adding their component digits until you reach a single-digit number. Here, you cannot create the number 1 by adding, since the only way to do that is by first creating the number 10. In our system, 10 reduces to 1, like so -- 1 + 0 = 1 -- but in the Doran system, 10 is a 'signifying' number on its own, and thus is not further reduced.
This is intentional, since 1 is the number of God, and is therefore extremely significant.
"Lemonade" chapter 4 is at 1,700 words, or roughly 3/4 written. That might be done sometime this week, unless I get distracted by all my other WIPs.
This is Harai's numerology system, which is widespread in the Doran Empire and the coastal region of Nalus. Comments, anyone? Am I missing really obvious 'elements' that should be signified by a number? (Yes, I know I'm leaving out death, but there's a reason for that.)
0 = sterility, emptiness, the void
1 = potential, solitude, perfection, the infinite
2 = instability, arguments, scales, pendulums
3 = stability, fellowship, the joining of disparate elements
4 = the world, the elements, nature
5 = humanity, the body, desire
6 = a quest, an absence, a journey or a pause along the way
7 = chance, luck, change
8 = foresight, planning, skill
9 = endings, closure, destruction, comprehension
10 = dominion, power, control, fame
11 = innocence, the unknown, the soul, youth
12 = perfection, completion, experience, stasis
13 = imbalance, ill-luck, the unnatural
14 = time, the past, the future, memory, age
15 = war, strife, anger, straight lines
16 = return to beginnings, cycles, balance
17 = creation, breaking patterns, risk, glory
Whether numbers are auspicious or not depends on the context, though 4, 9, and 16 are always particularly significant because they're square numbers. Each number has a shadow or mirror, counting inwards toward 9. So 17 mirrors 1, 16 mirrors 2, and so on, until 9 itself mirrors 0, which is set outside the pattern, as the void is outside of creation.
ETA: Note that this system almost never produces the number 1. In traditional Earth numerology (which goes from 1 to 9), you reduce numbers by adding their component digits until you reach a single-digit number. Here, you cannot create the number 1 by adding, since the only way to do that is by first creating the number 10. In our system, 10 reduces to 1, like so -- 1 + 0 = 1 -- but in the Doran system, 10 is a 'signifying' number on its own, and thus is not further reduced.
This is intentional, since 1 is the number of God, and is therefore extremely significant.
