Nesting Grounds

Distrykt
Namama/ay
Gwome
Jumyaaraa
Rezhn
Estrelliia
dedication date
02/02/2015

Linear Location
Near Pantai Sembukan, a beach in Wonogiri, Java, Indonesia (8°12'16"S 110°50'41"E)

Overview

This beautiful location is on the southern coast of Java in the village of Wonogiri–a reasonable drive from the city of Solo (Surakarta). There is a lovely walk up to a viewing platform that overlooks the cove.

The story here begins to suggest one reason for the Yaarayehyay’s deep familiarity with Nyelvate words and diction.

Access

It is probably a 1-2 hour drive from Wonogiri proper to the beach–which is beautiful and has some rich local history as well. You park in the parking lot and then it will be on the left side as you face the ocean. There may be a nominal fee for parking.

Public Dedication

There was a cheer with the workers as we completed the site. Otherwise pretty low-key as we needed to head to the Wayang Village and finish the marker there.

What It Says Here:

The part of the story installed here:

NESTING GROUNDS

This was the nesting ground for the most powerful of the Yaarayehyay, the great five and half winged birds who had a deep love of certain languages—especially Nyelvate, a shape language (meaning the words were forms, not characters or letters) spoken by biologically aquatic cultures. The great birds would collect such words for their nests which dotted the rocky bluffs of this coastline.

This particular shape word replaced one of a pair of words that meant “fame and glory,” an expression that the Yaarayehyay were particularly proud to find. But one day there was an unfamiliar sound all around, in the water, in the earth—in every dimension. Suddenly a strange, not very big, machine appeared and, in an instant, picked up the word on this spot and literally flew away so fast it seemed to disappear. The machine was a toy, but not just any toy, a toy from far, far away—a toy that was even smarter than its brilliant creator—the toymaker Xlembuatt Naymand. A pair of birds here gave chase in vain, but on their return they found that a neighbor had brought a new word, one that tickled them immensely—for the two words together now meant: “fleeting glory,” a phrase familiar in just about every language.