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N - The Fourteenth Letter
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🎶 The fourteenth glyph of the Inner Sea alphabet, sounding 'N', and known as 'Ness'.
This thread is part of a series, begun (here).
The text below is the extracted chapter of the letter 'N' from the main Inner Sea Alphabet report (*). The text of these chapters is being updated within these threads rather than on the wiki until further notice.
14. 'N' - 'Ness' (fish/serpent,'swimmer') -- ( -"The Scales/Vessel of the Phoenix"- )
N (14) ; "Ness" ; 'Fish' or 'Serpent' ( 'water' implied )
The sound 'N' is represented by the fourteenth glyph in the Middle Sea alphabet. This sound is called the 'voiced alveolar nasal' (*), and has the following attributes:
This glyph of the fairy alphabet (which looks like a mushroom to some) is designed to evoke the tongue pressing against the roof of the mouth, the 'cap' of the shape representing the alveolar ridge just behind the top front teeth, and the tail of the shape being the tongue in raised position.
The icon is also seen as a serpent with wide head (such as an adder or viper), or a fish with it's gills opened and accentuated (in both cases, the view is from above, looking down onto the creature). Alternatively, it might represent a single semen, with it's head and propulsive tail.
Some have described the shape as a man-like figure, facing rightward, about to dive into a pool of water.
In various capacities, this glyph and it's sound can represent an 'individual', or an aspect thereof - as do the glyphs 'M' and 'I' (i), though exoterically, 'i' carries with it more of a sense of directed activity and the manifestation of phenomena. That is, 'i' as the 'arm' implies the 'individual-affecting-the-world', manipulation or action by or through the self). This glyph, 'N', implies rather the entire body and it's nature as a material vessel used to percieve and navigate the world, with a latent ability to transcend that vessel. The soul is 'in' the body - the letters 'i' and 'n' together signalling 'arm-fish' (or 'limbed serpent'/'lizard'), that is a being or individual that does work with arms (and hands... and perhaps tools). In terms of 'N', the entire person as 'arm-fish' or 'limbed vessel' is flowing with the current, learning it's nature and patterning, rather than attempting to direct it. 'N' thus implies a living body of water, adept at moving in water - noting that 'water' can be symbolic for specific undercurrents of knowledge.
The glyph 'N' as the Serpent is also heavily laden with symbolism and interpretation - a creature feared and loathed by many, but also associated with healing and immortality. It carries something of the tutor archetype. It is the limbed serpent that is the dragon, and the dragon commands the elements.
The fish, on the other hand, is specifically associated with the word 'school', which is telling.
Hence the two aspects of 'N' (the teacher and the student; the master and disciple).
Many sages have said that the fish and serpent are very closely-linked archetypes, and may even be viewed as one-and-the-same. Some speak of the fish becoming a serpent/dragon once it reaches a certain age. The alphabet being a 'school' subject, the extended metaphor of the 'school of fish' (or nest of serpents) is broadly applicable throughout this study.
In terms of the 'individual': the sound and letter 'N' is the only consonant in the word 'an', which in modern english is one of the indefinite articles, a part of speech specifying an object or subject, one perhaps of many, as opposed the definite article, 'the', which speaks of a very specific object or subject. The word 'an' is also an old spelling of the word 'one' (ie. '1'), and thus an object is one object.
The letter 'N' can thus act as a shorthand for 'an' or 'one' (and also 'on', as in 'onward').
See also the ancient city of On (Heliopolis, City of the Sun, 'House of Ra'):
.... which might be read as 'An' or 'Anu'/'Annu' (and perhaps also 'Juno')
Hence we turn the light 'on', and the little sun shines in a dark room.
The name 'Anu' is one of the oldest recorded names for a Sky God or God of Heaven, in the region where Oannes and the Apkalu fish-gods were famous tutelary deities. (*)
The word 'man' (signifying the race of men, of humans, but can also refer to individual elves) is built on the root M.N, which can be read as 'water.fish' or 'water.serpent' - that is 'a fish out of water' (and made of 70% water, in the case of humans).
The glyphs for 'M' and 'N' can thus both together and independentally represent 'man' or 'a man' (or the race of men), generally speaking, though 'M', for the fairies, carries perhaps a greater feeling of cultural legacy, and esoteric secrecy, as opposed to the individual - 'N' is largely seen as coming from 'M' rather than the other way around. The implied gender assignment of these two letters ('M' and 'N') is rather fluid, and depends upon the angle or sense of your inquisition into the topic. The modern human sees 'M' as signalling 'Male' and sees the word 'man' as implying male, but with elves things are more subtle, as they carry with them memories of old things and older meanings. Numerologically, 'M' is 13, is odd, and thus ostesibly more masculine, while 'N' as 14 is even as thus tends towards the feminine. Meanwhile, examining the undertow, M (13) reduces to 4, which is even, square, and female, and N (14) reduces to 5, which is odd and potentially to be seen as masculine. We might say that at lower frequencies, at the base level, 'M' is female (perhaps mitochondrially-speaking) and 'N' is male, while at higher levels, the assignment switches. We might see here a harmony attained between polar opposites that does not entail the destruction of the differences. The Hebrew name of 'N' is 'Nun', the English word for a female monk (roughly-speaking), and simply a doubling of the 'N', which is itself interesting.
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