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byrdiethemotley — Gods of Isse - Qaf
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Published: 2014-12-13 01:42:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 629; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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This it a larger and colored (though it's hardly different, as she's mostly white and gray anyhow) version of Qaf. This is showing off the ajïs (pronounced "ahzh-wee"), which are pretty much like hanzi/kanji only they are no longer functional as anything by decoration and the occasional emphatic sign or comic book bubble. The ones here mean "god", "wisdom", "lady/lord" (it's a word like the "-sama" honorific in Japanese), and "culture".Gods of Isse are typically imagined to have insanely long crowns/manes (head hair), especially Qaf. Long hair is a symbol of age and wisdom, or of studiousness and leisure, much like in ancient China with long fingernails.
The title's a slight misnomer, implying that everyone on Isse worships Qaf. They do not. There are many religions, as it is a big planet with many people. Qaf's one of my favorite ones, tho. Ooh, maybe I'll make this into a series. That would make me happy.
Qaf and ajïs (c) me
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Nice mingling of cultures and traits to make an aspect all your own for your Isse-folk.
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Great seeing you posting drawings again 
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You're welcome and you need to come on AIM more often 
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Wow, that's awesome
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Thank you for your enthusiasm!
Basically, you're asking about the characters' "radicals"? I'm glad you asked like that, because that's pretty much how I made them, lol. It's a lot to put in a single comment, but the first ajïs for "god" is made up of "starburst" (the three dots) + "roof" (self explanatory) + "cauldron" (the "radical" that looks like a large pot with a spoon sticking out. It kind of implies magic). Not very exciting, but not all hanzi/kanji are perfect pictographs, either.
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AWESOME
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I studied Japanese quite a bit and am considered intermediate. (I used to be better, but the real world happened.)I'm pretty bad at Chinese, but I can read basic hanzi that remain unchanged from when the Japanese borrowed them. UHm, I won't know what you're gonna share until you share it, ha ha.
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Nice, I have also studied Japanese for over three years, but I started with Chinese, my grand farther was from Hong Kong so you can see why I started to learn Chinese first. Well one of the things I learned when studding Chinese was that a lot of the characters are made of two parts, the first gives the character's meaning and the second gives its pronunciation, like the character for mother, 媽-ma-(mum) is made up of the characters 女-nǚ-(woman) and 馬-ma-(hours), as you can see, the first character gives the meaning and the second show pronunciation, the same can also be found in 時-shí-(time) 日-rì-(sun) 寺-sì-(temple). This is where a lot of the traditional Han Zi characters get their complexity from which is why Chinese has so meany characters. I have spent about half a year studding the emtymology of Hanzi characters and I have to say it is amazing where these combinations lead. I only brought this up because of when you spoke about the characters loosing their meaning over time and taking on new meaning, I though that this well sort of fit.
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Oh, that's neat! I didn't know hanzi worked like that. Considering Japanese wasn't the originl user for them, I really wouldn't have. Thanks for the note!
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No problems, was thinking that you could use the same thing in your language, would mean that you could create even more characters with varied meanings,
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I could, yes. I was going to stop at around 250 of them, since it's not really used except for some places. But that could help.
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Yeah, you could use it for like old or ancient scripts that have a writing system that has been long out grown. Well that's what I am doing with my Asian style con-lang, KaiSho.
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Awesome, I can't wait to see more of your work.
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