Galay
Galay is a logographic picting language derived from the ancient calendar of the Temple of Solomon. Words are comprised of elements drawn from one single Galay character template in the shape of a Wheel. The components of this Wheel correspond with the letters of the hebrew alephbet and by secondary or tertiary correspondence to the letters of the alphabet or other natural language scripts using the standard method of transliteration.
Elements of the language
The Galay character features seven 'palaces': six points represented by circles that are located equidistantly along the rim of a wheel and one point at the axis. Each palace is key associated with a specific letter of the hebrew alephbet. Each letter of the hebrew alephbet has an associated numerical value. Galay also has fourteen 'paths' that visually connect the palaces together and these also have hebrew letter associations.
Letter sequence in a Galay word (pict) is primarily indicated by the colour sequence of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Indigo, Violet & Magenta. Each sequence of 8 letters is differentiated by their fills and textures.
Multiple letters in words are represented by 'pips' - small round coloured marks placed by either a palace or a path. The Galay Carriage is the collection of these 'pips' located around the rim of the Wheel character. Each Galay letter has a minimum of 7 pips and a maximum of 13 (pips). In addition, Galay features 6 magenta function dots at path intersections - two of which represent user defined designations for a prefix and a suffix and 4 of which are reserved for future use as the language evolves.
History
Galay was created by writers BethSheba Ashe and Steven Ashe following research into a 364 day temple calendar from the ancient near east. The temple calendar was discovered by BethSheba Ashe to be encrypted within one of the texts from a major work on Jewish mysticism: the Zohar. Specifically, the calendar was found within 'The Book of Concealed Mysteries'. Deciphering the solution required the student to reverse engineer a diagram that Jewish mystics call The Tree of Life back into the 'Seven Palaces' of Merkabah mysticism. The arrangement of the Hebrew letters upon the resulting diagram of the wheel character records the ancient temple calendar: the times of the year associated with the oral traditions of the people of the ancient near east.[1]
It is not certain whether the core component of the Galay language - which is a simple correspondence system of hebrew letters to the wheel - qualifies as a natural but fossilized visual language.
Learning Galay
Galay is learned by memorizing the spacial position of the letters upon the wheel and then working out what each letter means in each new word. Fluency in Galay is achieved through practice when word recognition naturally replaces the early deductive reading process.
Uses
As a logographic language, Galay has broad applications in multiple domains: the promotion of both literacy and graphicacy[2] in children with special needs and abilities; to increase the IQ[3]; to cultivate a predominantly visual cognitive style absent of the phonetic translation time lag; and the ability to visually represent long words is important to biologists working with protein chains.
Examples
External links
- [3] The Galay Institute
