IAO or IAU ?
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I A O, which is pronouced EE AH OH (according to Diary of a Drug Fiend) - actually pronounced EE AH OO ?
The three sounds (EE AH OO) correspond to the basic emotional responses (followed by how I see they fit into the formula IAO):
(I)EE - Fear ; Birth, coming out of the womb and into the unknown for the first time(A)AH - Satisfaction ; Life, at its height, and the realization of the joy of manifestation.
(O/U)OO - Pain ; Death(Rebirth/Change), the shedding of 'old skin' to become anew.
I got the information about the sounds and their 'emotional' correspondence from The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah by Leonora Leet.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
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@Uni_Verse said
"I A O, which is pronouced EE AH OH (according to Diary of a Drug Fiend) - actually pronounced EE AH OO ?"
No. It's pronounced EE AH OH.
The word is Greek. The original spelling is Iota Alpha Omega. It can be transliterated into Hebrew, with the last letter variously being an A'ayin or a Vav, but in both cases with the intent of pronouncing it OH.
I don't agree with your equation of the sounds to emotions, but it's your neurochemistry - Part of my disagreement is my inherent relationship to the sounds, and part is that the Old Aeon formula isn't the only one for interpreting this mantra of ecstasy. (The New Aeon themed formula applied by the T.'.O.'.T.'. Second Order doesn't start down that path you described at all.)
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@Jim Eshelman said
"The word is Greek. The original spelling is Iota Alpha Omega. It can be transliterated into Hebrew, with the last letter variously being an A'ayin or a Vav, but in both cases with the intent of pronouncing it OH. "
I was examining IAO from the perspective of vowel sounds. Part of Leet's theory was that the three vowel sounds I-A-U are the heart of all spoken language (still looking for confirmation on this, while playing around with the idea).
Although she never mentions IAO, she does go into IHVH, where she proposes the actual pronunciation is EE-AH-OO-AH, as opposed to EE-AH-OH-AH (when emphasizing the vowel sounds).
@Jim Eshelman said
"I don't agree with your equation of the sounds to emotions, but it's your neurochemistry"
I often view the entire universe as just one big sine or sound wave.
@Jim Eshelman said
"Part of my disagreement is my inherent relationship to the sounds, and part is that the Old Aeon formula isn't the only one for interpreting this mantra of ecstasy. (The New Aeon themed formula applied by the T.'.O.'.T.'. Second Order doesn't start down that path you described at all.)"
Yes, it is an Old Aeon interpretation. I wrote out the idea a long time ago when I originally read The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah, formulating it in the box she created. What I really need to do is go back and read the book again....
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@Uni_Verse said
"Part of Leet's theory was that the three vowel sounds I-A-U are the heart of all spoken language (still looking for confirmation on this, while playing around with the idea). "
Any standard text book on Phonetics will confirm that "EE", "AH", and "OO" are the three extremes of the human vowel space. They mark the points of the so-called Vowel Triangle. (Sometimes you hear of a Vowel Quadirilateral as there are really two main varieties of "AH" sound.) Languages like Arabic that only have three vowels will have vowels close to these three.
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@gmugmble said
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They mark the points of the so-called Vowel Triangle. (Sometimes you hear of a Vowel Quadirilateral as there are really two main varieties of "AH" sound.)
"The 'vowel triangle' that is formed was something on my mind. You then add the fourth vowel, and now you have the 'fourth point' to create a tetrahedron, which is four triangles.
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@Uni_Verse said
"You then add the fourth vowel, and now you have the 'fourth point' to create a tetrahedron, which is four triangles."
Maybe schwa?
If you look down at a tetrahedron that's sitting flat on a table, that 4th point appears to be in the "indeterminate" middle...
Steve
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@Steven Cranmer said
"Maybe schwa?"
The schwa goes roughly in the middle of the vowel triangle. (I mean the one used by language scientists that's based on the physiology of speech and the physics of sound vibration. You're welcome of course to create your own "qabalistic" vowel diagrams.)
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93,
Technically, if you know any Hebrew, the Vav in IAO (if you take it as a Vav) is pronounced both as Oh and Oo (and 'V'). But this comes from Greek in the first place, as Jim mentions, and is pronounced Ee-Ah-Oh.
A schwa sounds nothing like it (its more like an 'uh')
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