God bless you, Carmen
In rereading today's Heavenletter™, #3176, A Weaver of Carpets, I became very aware of the sound of the words and the spell that the sounds of w words in this Heavenletter cast on me. The word woven appears 9 times. Weave, weaves, weaver, weaving collectively appear 28 times -- 29 if we include the title -- 38 weave/woven words in this Heavenletter.
Never ever have I analyzed a Heavenletter. Ever. I read them. I love them. Some take my breath away. Never would I analyze a Heavenletter. Never did it ever occur to me to do such a thing, but in rereading this one, I saw that the w words were having a definite effect on me. I hesitate to bring this up because I definitely do not want to start a trend of analyzing Heavenletters.
I do remember God's words in a Heavenletter (will you find it, Jochen?) where God said something about Heavenletters having "a certain lilting rhythm." Rhythm isn't quite the same meaning as sound, yet I think it must be related.
I believe the following is the paragraph in this Heavenletter where I became aware of the power of the w sound:
Weaving is actually quite simple. It is like walking through life, one step at a time. Planned or unplanned, you are a weaver of life. It is no small thing that you are a weaver. No matter how many weavers there are, there is no other weaver just like you, and yet every weaver weaves, and some seem more adept, and others seem less adept, and yet everyone weaves, and the process is the same. Each stitch you weave has never been quite woven before the way you weave now. Each stitch is its own, and it is new no matter how many times you think you have woven it. Stitches may at first glance look the same, and yet, no two stitches are alike. Every weaver has the same yarn, and yet the same yarn twists and turns, and the sun brightens the yarn, or the sun fades the yarn this way and that.
In the first paragraph, I also noticed that the two words woven without appear together three times.
Counting the other w words in the entire Heavenletter all together including their repetitions, I got 30. Actually, as I tried counting all the additional w words, I kept losing count, but it was something like 30.
And I didn't include words like awake and somewhere and someone and twist which also have the w sound. I suspect this is an unusual number of words beginning with the same sound in any one Heavenletter, but how do I know. I never looked before.
It must be that sounds of themselves have a meaning. Each sound must signify something, don't you think?
Is this a field that has ever been studied? Does it have a name? Does every language have the w sound?
To put my left brain aside and get back into my heart, I would like to post the first comment that showed up under this Heavenletter today. This is from Carmen who is originally from the Philippines and who now lives in Denmark. Danish and English are similar. I noticed this when I was in Denmark many many years ago. Danish is more like Old English -- Chaucer's English, for example.
Carmen posts often. She posts knowing that she doesn't know how to spell in English. Who needs spelling when they have a heart like Carmen's? She puts ego aside and posts. I am so proud of her, and I find her posts very much like simple Old English poetry.
Here's what Carmen posted this morning:
i feel so greatful we have Your leetter,
cince i descover your letter it like key i lose,
now i finde my key of my life, it You my key,
yes it very trugth like a rug of life,
woven side to side to side, and i seid to my self,
i wish i have a red carfet i can laydown for a moment,
dear God i asking you pleace, if you can help me to
guide in my life, i dont want my life it goingwrong agein
and i want to thank you so much your blessing to
my dothers life, and i feel laydown of the red carfet hers life
oh daer God thank you blesssing,
God bless you, Carmen.
Comments
Wow. Wonderful woven words. I always wondered about the one who writes as Carmen. :)
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Gloria, I'm so glad someone else recognizes both the poetry and the antiquity of language in Carmen's posts, and she is not alone. Many times I find wonderful wildflowers growing up thru the cracks in messages from those with English as a second or third language.
Many years back I spent a semester in Sheffield, which is in the northern part of England. It took me a couple of weeks before I could understand what anyone was saying, at least amongst the working people. They were still saying "thee" and "thou" altho it sounded more like "they" and "thah". This opened up my ears to Chaucer in a way that I don't think anything else could have.
Beautiful, Charles. I feel just the same as you.
I have other questions about the sounds in language. I am not speaking of syntax and structure etc.
There is more I want to know.
What are the meanings of the various sounds? What does one isolated sound say that is different from another isolated sound? The various sounds in language, as well as sound in anything, must have varying effects. Does anyone know the effect of w or h, for example?
Our names begin with a sound. We have heard that sound of our names many many times. How has the sound of our name affected us? If we had been called something else, would we be different? Is sound more powerful than meaning?
If we ourselves are vibrations, then are we sound? And no two of us has the exact same sound?
Maybe all humans share some of the same sounds. Dogs share another.
Is sound everything? Did Creation come from sound?
Did God breathe different sounds and so create everything? When it is said that there was the Word, does that mean sound?
Yes, the Word in terms of creation refers to the omnipresent sound of creation. It is the one constant in all of creation. Whichever country, whichever planet, wherever one goes and wherever one is, the sound of creation, the Om, the Word is present.
The sound or tone of a word in some languages (Sanskrit, Khoisan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoisan_languages ) convey more than one meaning.
Everything that the mind can perceive and the mind itself, is formed by the four ideas or concepts: the Word from which emerge the ideas of Time, Space and Atom.
Its not all clear to me yet. What I do perceive is that Creation is infused with this ever present sound. I is beyond the sound.
When you Godwrite, is it the Word that you hear?
I believe, think, guess that what I hear is a level of sound that is bubbled up from the basic sound. I hear it as language. From the same basic sound (which I do not hear)bubbles up all the languages. I hear English. Someone else would hear Turkish.
I have mentioned somewhere the lady I knew who heard remarkable messages in Hebrew. She was from Israel. She was living in the U.S. when I knew her. She later translated the Hebrew into English. This was a lot of work.
She finally trained herself to "hear" in English in the first place! I hope it is clear that we only "hear" in a language we know very well. No one is going to "hear" in a foreign language nor would there be any point in doing so.
Although Godwriters hear above the basic level of sound, they are hearing on a more subtle level than sound. It is like you are hearing the words only it is very softly in your head. It must be we sense the language more than hear it, yet it is, at least for me, as if I hear it. I guess I would say it is the thought I hear rather than the sound. Honestly, I don't really know what to say. Do we hear thoughts in our heads? Is that what thought is? Do we hear them, or do we think them? In the case of Godwriting, it feels as if the thoughts are thought for us, and therefore I say I "hear" them on a subtle level.
Please know I do not know how to describe simply what is very simple.