Runes - latest thoughts

PANARKIA - 'Panarchy' - 'where all have an influence on what happens' - a kind of social order where everybody can have an input on the process of life. Implies organic cultural development as different sub-movements within a society with their own semi-autonomous life rub up against each other. Implies the needs (KREIA) of people being recognised and then met by changes proposed by some, tested out and then generally accepted if beneficial. Considered to exist under conditions of relative social equality and/or connection. i.e. there may not be equality of direct governing power, but those with less direct power are able to win the attention and concern of those who do have it.

MONOKRATIA - 'Monocracy' or 'Absolute Monarchy' - a social order where one person or agency directs the activity of everybody else.

BANTA - 'a walking' - hence 'an activity'. BANTA is a kind of TUKA (happening).

SYMBANTA - 'a walking together' - a group activity - a process or event involving multiple people. Something that happens as a result of the actions of multiple people acting usually in characteristic ways and receiving characteristic experiences accordingly.

PATHEMATA - 'experiences' , what individuals 'experience' , 'suffer' or 'receive' from the happenings (TUKA) of the world around them, including when they are part of SYMBANTA.

DROMUS (originally PSYCHODROMUS)- 'a running' , 'a circuit' - a particular pattern of behaviour that is in-built and automatic in a person, i.e. doesn't require much conscious attention and effort . Thus it just needs to be triggered to be activated. A DROMUS is a kind of TROPUS (way of doing something) that a person is primed to perform given the right stimulating conditions.

(Feb 26)
PHRONESIS - Practical Wisdom.

MANUS - Mind-spirit , the active living spirit that resides in the passive realms of Zurvan. Manus both perceives the land-scape of Zurvan, and takes actions which change it. (derived from MANAH (MANAS) and MAINYU). Can be seen as a single 'world-spirit' ,similar to Hegel's Geist', or as individual spirits that form the essence of individual living beings.

SKEMA - Landscape - the shape, the contours, the character of the world. Maybe as ZURVANOSKEMA or possibly as MANOSKEMA (the contours of the mind, the psychic character).

TUPA (or TUPTA) - the 'marks' on the world that are made through activity. Originally conceived as the impact of personal experiences on a person's psychic character. TUPA is related to SKEMA in that a whole series of TUPA will create the SKEMA.

AGATHIA (or AGATHEIA) - 'goodness' , seen as a quality, as a sliding scale with 'the bad' at one end and 'the good' at the other, as a standard by which to judge things, both states-of-affairs and actions.

?LEKTA - as 'sayables' with traditional meaning (in Greek philosophy)

HORATUS & AORATUS for 'visible' and 'invisible' as applied to 'matter' (HYLE) which is the substance of ZURVAN. HYLE (or HULE) (or another word) HORATA is the normal visible physical realm of Zurvan. HULE (or another word meaning 'realm/place') AORATA is the invisible realm, considered the repository of memory, and hence the source of soul-character. Alternatively could use HORATUM (visible realm) and AORATUM (invisible realm)

PNEUMA - a word that denotes the activity of MANUS, and its connection to the passive material of ZURVAN.

HORMIA - desires, impulses.

HODOI or TROPOI - 'paths', 'ways of doing things',

TANUS (or maybe TANUM) - a 'body' , whether in purely physical sense, or in terms of a mental-body or soul-body, a psychic body (having a particular character) - related to concepts of TUPA and SKEMA. A Tanus is controlled by a particular individual Manus.

(Jan26)

KOSMA - The ordered-world, social order, human culture. (KOSMA is an aspect of ARTA. It denotes the world ordered in a human-friendly way. It covers social-order but goes further.) (NB KOSMA can also be an alternative spelling for KOSMONS)

KOSMON - 'a world'. A human culture or society. It is a particular manifestation of KOSMA, typically tied to a particular human society with a shared culture. Any particular Kosmon must have a degree of insulation from other Kosmons, so that a particular community has sovereignty over it, and can shape it. Neverthless a Kosmon is not completely detached from what is happening outside of it. (NB Kosmons relate to each other as 'partial wholes' (HOLONS) to the universal KOSMOS/HOLOS)

VIRTAS - 'manly virtue' - suggested as alternative spelling for the Roman VIRTUS.

(Nov25)

AGENDA - 'things that ought to be done' - as in normal English - what a person thinks they should be doing and are trying to do.

SYMMAKIA - a 'fighting together' , a movement with a common agenda to change the world outside of themselves.

A Symmakia is typically characterised by SYNNOIA (shared understanding) and SYNDAENA (shared moral vision) and thus a common AGENDA (things they are trying to do). Also often by BELLINOIA (a war-like spirit).

KOINOTAS - a community or social structure marked by shared rules and customs of behaviour.

This often comes with a shared sense of familiarity and mutual trust and a shared sense of identity with respect to interaction with outside groups.

(Sep25)

DRASIS - 'Doing'. Also DRATA=Deeds.

ARDRA - Righteous Action (AR=Righteous DRA=Doing - can be seen as short for ARTADRATA). Similar in meaning, and preferred to, DARMA.

IDEODAENA - a Daena (Moral Vision) in the form of a picture (and hence communicable to others) ; a religion or ideology.

(May25)
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