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‘ions of quest’
How
• Who • What • Where • Which • Why •
When
What was the first question and who asked it? Where
did this happen? Was anyone else around? Was it ‘what is all
of this’? Who made all of these? Did we emerge from our animalian
experience of cognition with the answers intact, and lose them as
we proceeded forth from unity into the dangerous terrains of distinguishing,
naming, and comparing?
These terms comprise a foundational list of the primal
English questioning-terms, which I’ve arranged in no particular
order other than choosing to put ‘how’ first. It seems
pretty obvious that something suspicious is afoot, since all but one
begin with wh — a ‘doubled-you’ or ‘reflective
other’ coupled with the ‘heh’ of the outward breath-gesture
— a magically connective action which joins the invisible and
the visible.
This is no accidental set of symmetries — each
of these terms refers directly to the unityBeing, by way of being
spelled in memory of the holy name, and the exceptionally holy letters
‘W’ or V, H and Y. Moreover, they remember to our very
tongues the sounds associated with the god of our fathers, such that
to speak them is to sing, in part, the name of the unityBeing.
In Hebrew, W and V are both represented with Vahv character.
If we playfully translate this we see that Wh and Vh (as in Y H V
H) begins each word with the exception of ‘how’ —
which begins instead with the single-letter-name of the unityBeing.
This V/W equivalence is remembered in some Germanic accents, where
we might hear a native speaker of this language (or perhaps a Bavarian)
say “Vhere ah(r) vee goin(k)?” in English. All of this
is merely interesting, until we notice that ‘All of the ions
of quest begin with the ‘end-half’ of the tetragrammaton.
VH. So it could be said then that all questions begin with ‘the
end of god’ — meaning at once that only one who has abandoned
direct understanding will form such toys seriously, and also that
the latter half of the Holy Name must perforce be invoked before any
matter of questioning may be attended. The singular exception is startling:
How. Not only does it begin with the unisigil of the Name, but it
is also as if the two central elements of the tetragrammaton have
been separated out, and joined by the letter O. This recalls the breath
of the unityBeing across and into the living waters in Genesis which
is the first act of distinguishing ever comitted in our universe of
time and story and space. The result is the same V — which begins
any other term of quest.
This is not yet even the beginning of these mysteries
however, which possess such depth and complexity as to deny us access
to their treasures in simple text. Still, we may notice that only
a single vowel is missing: the U which I say represents the one asking
or the one to whom a question is directed. Simultaneously, this U
stands for universe, for no one shall ask alone, but that all ask
at once. If we remove ‘which’ from the list, seeing as
it might be construed as a subset of ‘what’ and thus redundant,
we see that I and U are both missing. In this case, I stands at once
for whichever side of the question is uninhabited by U, but also it
stands for ‘those who saw, see and shall yet see’ —
eyes.
Some interesting toys of subtraction related to the
question-words.
Remove the first letters:
ow • ho • hat • here • hich
• hy • hen
Now let’s take out the w and h characters altogether:
o • o • at • ere • ic •
y • en
remove the vowels...
t • r • c • n
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Roots of Reference:
How • Way
Who • Agent
What • Schema
Where • Spatial Location
When • Temporal Location
Why • Cause
Which • Instance
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Opposition games:
How • Cannot
Who • No-one (none is short for this)
What • Nothing
Where • Nowhere
When • Never
Why • Unknown
Which • Neither
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Common Answers:
How • Thus
Who • Thou • They • He • She
• Me • Us (it)
What • That • This • Those
• It
Where • There • Here
When • Then • Now
Why • Because
Which • This • Those • That
• These
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