A Healing Palindrome

Nvelvate word meaning: [the feeling of being sheltered but quite exposed to a high wind]

It is well known that there is a profound difference between culturally aquatic peoples and biologically aquatic ones. Culturally aquatic people bring air underwater (usually through domesticating water moles and using their tunnels to bring air to the ocean, lake or river bottom). Biologically aquatic peoples, on the other hand, lived where oxygen vents so infused the water that one could breathe the water. But it was difficult to speak without air so, over time, they evolved the ability to telekinetically create shape words—involving many dimensions–with their minds that would appear in front of them in the water. Interestingly, though they had physical substance, Nyelvate words were more like spoken words than written words, giving a beautiful personal quality to the word objects themselves.

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Nyelvate word meaning: Family

As Gevrian recovered, he was found by a band of the nomadic warriors, the Urushiol, attracted by nearby hot springs, and legendary for the fierceness and scarification of their fighting and wedding rituals. They intended to make sport of the weak young man, but he defended himself so well, they took him away—not exactly kidnapping him, not exactly inviting him. Gevrian soon became their most fearless warrior, but as their fighting descended into something known as the reis p virlesj (or The Madness), the battle between those who believed in gods and those who believed in the worlds—disgusted, he refused to fight anymore.

He was called a coward by some, but not for long, as he did not leave the battlefield. He would fearlessly go to the worst of the fighting to heal, to help —as stretcher bearer, as medic. And soon even the most headstrong and savage on both sides respected him. After the fiercest and bloodiest, it would seem impossible that he could survive—and yet he would emerge. He would not fight, but used his experience and vision to save himself and those in need. This went on for years. He did not bristle when people called it luck, but he always said he would know when it was time to stop. Indeed, it was at that point that his path would cross Culev Larsze’s.

Nyelvate word meaning: Jemvela

In fact, it was said his ancestors’ eyesight had been so good that they chose to live underwater because that cover of the water let them see nearer things—like the moons of Jupiter (which meant that their gwome was one of the few to use the Pejephen Calendar to find Time).

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for these were words from the shape language known as Beshwa Nyelvate, spoken by the underwater culture that lived in this river. What was more surprising is that a young boy named Gevrian Melam washed up here too. And, since he normally breathed underwater, his bereft family assumed he was lost for good.

Nvelvate word meaning: The special water current that tickles the feet of a newborn baby

Gevrian and his family were of pSaqhaelin descent, a people most famous for their amazing vision. With the naked eye, they could see outside the solar system.

Nyelvate word Meaning: to know when it is time

(FROM ONE SIDE): Pidgin languages simplify to allow communication without fluency. With Nyelvate languages, depending on the dialect, proper pronunciation might require the speaker to craft aspects of the shape in a dozen different dimensions at once. But, over time and ferylemt, many Nyelvate words began to be a very useful shorthand for certain ideas, so a pidgin shape language evolved using much fewer dimensions.

(FROM THE OTHER): Two dimensions only was rare, and yet even the approximate meanings of the shapes like the ones in this palindrome were eventually fairly clear–though inflection, verb tense and other such grammatical aspects could be quite elusive without each word’s full dimensional spectrum.

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Nyelvate word meaning: Waters within Waters

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A HEALING PALINDROME

A generation of generations ago, the seasonal flood waters that covered this field receded after a particularly devastating season. It was no surprise that forms like these were left behind.

Nvelvate word meaning: Floating

Nvelvate word meaning: Tenderness

Culev Larsze was a brilliant woman who was horrified by the terrible fighting known as the reis p virlesj. (We believe she may very well have learned about it from Gevrian Melam.) Culev thought that was very unfair that the gods were always using their superpowers to help their followers. So she tricked the Gods into no longer helping their believers. After she got her way, she only made one mistake—she smirked. The gods were angry and punished her by taking away her gift of language. She could not even talk to herself. Her curse would be over only when she spoke without words, to one without words. She wandered for years. Many people were kind to her, some were cruel. The leader of the Urushiol, in gratitude for what she did, gave her his most trusted sabertooth tiger as a companion and protector.

Nvelvate word meaning: Inflammation in the joint of an xthaedra

ALSO: Something that readily slips out of place

(FROM ONE END): The shapes you see here represent the not yet healed Nyelvate words that washed up with Gevrian—many believe they are on the very spots.

(FROM THE OTHER): Despite many different languages among marine biologically aquatic cultures, in flowing freshwater, all such cultures speak some form of Beshwa Nyelvate (admittedly with divers dialects). That unity was key to Iglesia Guiterrez’ discovery that most rivers in the world connect to one another, but only in another jemvela (the general term for qualities of existence—like Time, Space, Ferylemt, [the feeling of being sheltered but quite exposed to a high wind] and others).

Nyelvate word meaning: furtive

(Inset: CC1 shape)—Nyelvate word meaning: what’s been here all along

Nvelvate word meaning: strands of thought

Nvelvate word meaning: waø\pres

And heal both Gevrian and the palindrome did, but afterwards he could only function in atmospheres. Still, though his family might never know, they would have been proud of his courage of another sort. And, though at the center of the reis p virelsj, he survived to know and cherish Culev Larsze—who ended that bloody chaos at great personal cost.

Nvelvate word meaning: reflection

Palindromes have special importance in all Nyelvate languages because they help their words heal— important since many of those words have very sensitive feelings. And, as the words healed themselves, that healing energy helped others. So, in underwater cultures, it was common for families of those lost to the land to speak a palindrome, bruise it slightly, and let it be washed up near their loved one in hopes they might heal as well.

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