FINAL DRAFT MANTRA RECURSION wheel of year colander rites

A constructed language which I believe Armenian to be, may better be referred to as a planned or invented or managed language. Planned languages or engineered languages are languages that have been purposefully designed. They are seen as a deliberate, controlling intervention, a form of language planning. Robert L. Cooper (1989) defines language planning as "the activity of preparing a normative orthography, grammar and dictionary. This constructed language can be for the guidance of speakers in a non-homogeneous speech community. Language planning along with language ideology, language practices and language management are part of language policy which is a typology drawn from Bernard Spolsky's theory of language policy.

According to Spolsky, language management is defined as "the explicit and observable effort by someone or some group that has or claims authority over the participants in the domain to modify their practices or beliefs”. Language planning is often associated with government planning, but is also used by a variety of non-governmental organizations such as a grass-roots organization as well as individuals. It involves formal or informal agencies or committees, societies or academies to design or develop new structures of language to meet the contemporary needs. The legend of Armenian Hayk of the Haykazuni family 4500 years ago in Sumer were obviously at the least a grass-roots organization of enlightened powerful individuals with a powerful new ethos who design or developed a new dominant common language for a better communication and assimilation and to achieve their goals they had to have planning and management offer good economic benefits to minorities as well as facilitate their political domination and the loading of moral interests.

Multilingualism was necessary, in fact essential, to prevent misconceptions of meaning and intentions between neighboring cultures. There is a link between sociocultural and linguistic processes especially during times of cultural contact where speakers are actively forced to negotiate other languages and ideologies and consciously reflect on their own language use.

When one is creating or as now breaking down Armenian words, from a language which at origin and for at least two thousand years was a spoken language without its own orthography one has to go deep into the science of phonetics and morphology, which is the study of how sounds are formed and how subsequently words are formed from their elemental parts such as roots, prefixes affixes. 

Reconstructing Armenian with syllabic roots, can be very productive, take as an example the Sanskrit roots "√bhū-" means the root "bhū-" is the core of the word and is not  reducible into a more meaningful element. Semitic roots on the other hand are formed by consonants alone, and speakers elaborate different words from the consonant root by inserting different vowels. A root is conventionally indicated using the mathematical symbol √ as shown above on the Sanskrit roots. 

The first root phonemes in the Armenia language, a spoken language without its own orthography were 'HA' 'AI' 'KI' 'AR’, 'ME', NI, which are all abstractions referring to the cycle of the sun and the quality and quantity of light as it issues forth in time and space . As the source of life, the sun and the moon are central. The word Ararat can be divided into three words: AR-AR-AT.

Glossolalia: (from the Greek, "γλώσσα" (glossa), tongue and "λαλώ" (lalô), to speak) comprises the utterance of what appears (to the casual listener) either as an unknown foreign language (xenoglossia), meaningless syllables, or utterance of an unknown mystical language; the utterances sometimes occur as part of religious worship (religious glossolalia) and are commonly referred to in such circles as "speaking in tongues".
References to speaking in tongues by the Church fathers are rare. Except for Irenaeus' 2nd-century reference to many in the church speaking all kinds of languages "through the Spirit", and Tertullian's reference in 207 AD to the spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues being encountered in his day, there are no other known first-hand accounts of glossolalia, and very few second-hand accounts among their writings. In 1265 – Thomas Aquinas wrote about the gift of tongues in the New Testament, which he understood to be an ability to speak every language, given for the purposes of missionary work. He went on to carefully explain that Christ did not have this 'gift' because his mission was to the Jews, "nor does each one of the faithful now speak save in one tongue"; for "no one speaks in the tongues of all nations, because the Church herself already speaks the languages of all nations".

Mantra: A religious syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language. They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words and vibrations that instill one-pointed concentration in the devotee. Other purposes have included religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or eliminate enemies. Mantras originated in India with Vedic Hinduism and were later adopted by Buddhists and Jains, now popular in various modern forms of spiritual practice which are loosely based on practices of these Eastern religions.
Chant: The rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, either on a single pitch or with a simple melody involving a limited set of notes and often including a great deal of repetition or statis. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened form of speech which is more effective in conveying emotion or expressing ones spiritual side.
Channelling: The act of attaining information (from a state of being in the present moment) from higher power or spirits and bringing it forth through writing, speaking, teaching or music.A conduit, in esoterism, and spiritual discourse, is a specific object, person, location, or process (such as engaging in a séance or entering a trance, or using psychedelic medicines) which allows a person to connect or communicate with a spiritual realm, metaphysical energy, or spiritual entity, or vice versa. The use of such a conduit may be entirely metaphoric or symbolic, or it may be earnestly believed to be functional.


Ritual  Recursion in time and place.

A ritual is a formalised, predetermined set of symbolic actions performed at a regular, recurring interval. The general purpose of rituals is to express a fundamental truth to give it meaning and evoke spiritual, numinous emotional responses from participants, and/or engage a group of people in unified action to strengthen their communal bonds. The word ritual, when used as an adjective, relates to the noun 'rite', as in rite of passage. Rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation, rites executed during the transitional stage a liminal at the threshold so to speak.

The word, affiliate suggests the deep need for friendship, affiliation (N-Affil) from greek friend. It is a term that was popularized by David McClelland and describes a person's deep need to feel a sense of involvement with another especially "belonging" within a social group. 

Afterlife: (or life after death) A generic term referring to a continuation of existence, typically spiritual and experiential, beyond this world, or after death.

Proper names rigidly designate for reasons that differ from natural kinds terms. The reason 'Johnny Depp' refers to one particular person in all possible worlds is because some person initially gave the name to him by saying something like "Let's call our baby 'Johnny Depp'". This is called the initial baptism. This usage of 'Johnny Depp' for referring to some particular baby got passed on from person-to-person in a giant causal and historical chain of events. That is why everybody calls Johnny Depp 'Johnny Depp'. Johnny's mother passed it onto her friends who passed it onto their friends who passed it onto their friends, and so on. The same applies to the naming of the tree an abstraction that represents all trees because some person initially gave the name which then got passed on from, school to school, from person-to-person in a giant causal and historical chain of events. That is why everybody today who speaks English calls every tree in the world a tree. A name's referent is fixed by an original act of naming which is also called a "dubbing" or as Saul Kripke will have it, an "initial baptism", whereupon the name becomes a rigid designator of that object. A rigid designator designates the same object in all possible worlds in which that object exists and never designates anything else. This technical concept in the philosophy of language has critical consequences felt throughout philosophy. Later uses of the name succeed in referring to the referent by being linked to that original act via a causal chain.I think that the faculty of language simply for communication is at origin a given and at the same time more recently and obviously developed and determined by convention.
The question is how meaningful are units of language composed of smaller parts, and how the meaning of the whole is derived from the meaning of its parts.
In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, the constitution of sentences, concepts, learning, and thought.

MANTRA

Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion founded by the old Iranian prophet Zarathustra. Although no definite date for his life exist, modern scholarship places him close to the time of the Vedas, due to stark similarities described in the Avesta, the collection of holy Zoroastrian texts, and the Vedas.^[83] These similarities are found in the social, economic and religious sphere of the Avestan and Vedic people.^[84] One such similarity is the existence of sacred invocations called mathra in the Avesta, a term which has also been translated as holy spell, religious utterance or sacred word. The Avestan term mathra (Avestan: mąθra) derives from a reconstructed Indo-Iranian term *mantram (instrument of thinking), which is also the origin of the Vedic term mantra. Because of the etymological and conceptual similarity, such religious utterances must therefore have already been known during the common Indo-Iranian period, when the people of the Avesta and of the Vedas formed a single people.^[85]

In the Zoroastrian tradition, a mantra is typically a shorter inspired utterance which accompanies religious rituals. They can be distinguished from the longer, often eight-syllabic hymns of praise (called Yasht in the Avesta) as well as the often eleven-syllable songs (called Gathas in the Avesta as well as in the Vedas).^[86] Both the Vedic and Avestan mantras show a number of functional similarities. One is the notion that if truth is properly expressed in the mantra, it can compel a divinity to comply with the speaker's request (compare Sacca-kiriya). Another similarity is the Vedic and Avestan connection of mantras to paths, such that a properly articulated mantra may open a path to the divinity that is addressed.^[87] The four most important Zoroastrian mantras are the Ahuna Vairya, the Ashem Vohu, the Yenghe hatam, and the Airyaman ishya. They are believed to have been composed by Zarathustra himself, who referred to himself as mąθran, i.e., knowing the mantras (compare Sanskrit: mantrin).

THE RHYTHEM OF LIFE

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them. While names for each festival vary among diverse pagan traditions, syncretic treatments often refer to the four solar events as "quarter days", with the four midpoint events as "cross-quarter days". Differing sects of modern paganism also vary regarding the precise timing of each celebration, based on distinctions such as lunar phase and geographic hemisphere.

Observing the cycle of the seasons has been important to many people, both ancient and modern. Contemporary Pagan festivals that rely on the Wheel are based to varying degrees on folk traditions, regardless of actual historical pagan practices. Among Wiccans, each festival is also referred to as a sabbat (/ˈsæbət/), based on Gerald Gardner's view that the term was passed down from the Middle Ages, when the terminology for Jewish Shabbat was commingled with that of other heretical celebrations. Contemporary conceptions of the Wheel of the Year calendar were largely influenced by mid-20th century British paganism.

Calendrical and commemorative rites

Calendrical and commemorative rites are ritual events marking particular times of year, or a fixed period since an important event. Calendrical rituals give social meaning to the passage of time, creating repetitive weekly, monthly or yearly cycles. Some rites are oriented towards a culturally defined moment of change in the climatic cycle, such as solar terms or the changing of seasons, or they may mark the inauguration of an activity such as planting, harvesting, or moving from winter to summer pasture during the agricultural cycle.^[27] They may be fixed by the solar or lunar calendar; those fixed by the solar calendar fall on the same day (of the Gregorian, Solar calendar) each year (such as New Year's Day on the first of January) while those calculated by the lunar calendar fall on different dates (of the Gregorian, Solar calendar) each year (such as Chinese lunar New Year). Calendrical rites impose a cultural order on nature.^[31] Mircea Eliade states that the calendrical rituals of many religious traditions recall and commemorate the basic beliefs of a community, and their yearly celebration establishes a link between past and present, as if the original events are happening over again: "Thus the gods did; thus men do."^[32]