Grand paradigm

This is an attempt to integrate two (or four!) different Vord Paradigms into a single model, a unified template. It attempts to depict the central dynamic of the text, both Currier A and B. It is only introduced here and requires extensive exposition later.

The two paradigms are:

CHOLDAIIN

QOKEEDY


Both, however, have a variant:


DARCHOL

QOKEDAR


There are thus no less than four paradigmic vords, four patterns. I have attempted to reconcile all four at common points in order to reveal a more comprehensive system, a grand paradigm.

The system has two main features that permits this to be done:

1. It treats the vord paradigms as CYCLES.

2. It treats vord BREAKS as the critical points in the cycles.

The view of the text implicit in this is that there is a repeating base cycle (the CHOLDAIN or CH cycle) that is like the warp of a weave. A second cycle – a weft – ( the QOKEEDY or Q cycle) then intrudes and is intermixed with the base cycle. (The variants DARCHOL and QOKEDAR arise out of the intermixing.)

This CYCLIC and INTERWOVEN nature of the text is the reason any single paradigm will be inadequate. The text is woven of two main threads.The bulk of vords are hybrids of the two.

The main distinction between the two threads (cycles) is that the QOKEEDY (Q) cycle carries or contains gallows glyphs. The CHOLDAIIN cycle contains benched glyphs but no gallows.

The intermingling of the two cycles comes about when the gallows glyphs are inserted into the base cycle, when the gallowed text is joined with the non-gallowed text.

Concerning this, namely the points of overlap, the invariable rule is:

Gallows glyphs are inserted into the SPACES of the CHOLDAIIN cycle.

Those are the points where the two threads are linked together. That is where one cycle is anchored into the other. Other points of contact follow from that correspondence.

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Note that the base cycle has both soft and hard breaks. There is a soft break between CHOL and DAIIN. There is a hard break before CHOL and after DAIIN. The base sequence goes:

** CHOL*DAIIN ** CHOL*DAIIN ** CHOL*DAIIN ** CHOL*DAIIN ** etc.

 

Examining this closer - the on-going churn underneath the text -  we find that CHOL and DAIIN are versions of the same vord, and DAR is a variant of DAIIN.

In the end, therefore, everything comes down to a threefold pattern:

1 = Ch  D
2 = O    A
3 = L    R

This is at the very foundation – the atomic level – of the non-gallows text. It is the most basic unit in the fabric of the entire text. We cannot reduce it any further. What does this vord mean? CHOL. It can also be written as DAIIN, and DAIIN can also be written as DAR. They are all the same vord.

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Note that this iteration of the Vord Paradigm specifically permits vords with two gallows: these are cases of vords extending across two phases of the Q cycle.


R. B.