@olawikander
Philologist, author, Lundensian. Ugaritologist, Hebraist, Semitist, part IE-ist. PhD & Reader/Senior Lecturer, OT/HB. Ex Pro Futura fellow (Uppsala & Cambridge). Ordained in a rare religion. Abyssum per Sapientiam Linguā Incarnandō. Ola-Wikander-eng.se
So Miyagawa and Self, both smiling, in front of many bookshelves.
So Miyagawa invited me to visit Tsukuba University, meet colleagues and see the Ancient Near East and Egyptology Library! Thanks so much for having me!
Here we are together!
Ahem.
AA - the shroomy language family!
Me: "We should think more of Afro-Asiatic when working on individual Semitic languages."
Also me: "AA is a morass, how the hell do we do that?"
The proofs of the book "Human-ness and God-ness in Biblical and Classical Culture" lying across the manuscript of the new article "Who We Are, What We Were, And Who We Will Be: Gnosticism, Essenes, and Martinism in Swedish Esoteric Orders and Roleplaying Games", both resting on the keyboard of my black laptop.
Akkadian phrase of tonight:
Lā watar!
("Enough!" or "At last!")
Enough work on the second proofs of one edited book and the writing of a new article for tonight. It's 00:57, and I'm going home!
Tokyo Tower in red with white details against a blue sky and with a flowering pink cherry blossom tree in the foreground.
Spring in Tokyo.
#tokyo #tokyospring #sakura #cherryblossom #東京タワー #桜 #さくら #tokyotower
Medelhavsmuseet hotas av nedläggning på grund av marknadshyror. Vi lever verkligen i barbariets epok.
Tokyo skyline at night.
Ugaritic word of the day:
mảḫd (/maʔaḫadu/), "port, haven, harbor".
Preserved in syllabic spelling as "ma-aḫ-ḫa-[du]".
Image shows Tokyo skyline from near Hamamatsuchō (浜松町, "beach pine town", near Tokyo bay).
Värmländsk japonism. ”Vinter i trädgården”, färgträsnitt av Maja Fjaestad, ca 1915-1920? Nyinköp till Uppsala universitetsbibliotek.
Off to Japan!
Blue Velvet Possum.
The book "Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation part 1" by Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, the cover showing two characters in front of a full moon.
Ugaritic word of the day:
mdrʕ ("cultivated land").
The book "Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation part 1" by Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, the cover showing two characters in front of a full moon.
Ugaritic word of the day:
mdrʕ ("cultivated land").
Detta är den mest irriterande optiska illusion jag sett!
DET ÄR ALLTSÅ INTE EN SPIRAL!
Mannen med "... mot öfvermaktens lansar / att falla för en hopplös sak / att dö i stål och pansar"!
Citerar honom i en av mina romaner :)
Knasigt bra bokreapris på min fantastiktrilogi – skynda fynda, som det heter ;)
Serafer, kattmänniskor, tidsvisisioner, astrologi, språkfilosofi, dekadens!
#reklam
Happy Valentinus Gnosticus Day :)
(Detta är å Bokus.)
Knasigt bra bokreapris på min fantastiktrilogi – skynda fynda, som det heter ;)
Serafer, kattmänniskor, tidsvisisioner, astrologi, språkfilosofi, dekadens!
#reklam
Lästips! I boken Den undflyende ormen djupgräver Ola Wikander efter sambanden mellan mytologi och språk. Resultatet är ett verk impregnerat av lärdom som bjuder på många överraskningar och insikter.
*some-*
Hahahah, (s) är för proletariatets och böndernas revolutionära diktatur. WHO KNEW???
I alla fall om man tror den här killen:
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/m-so...
Väntar bara på att Ardalan Shekarabi skall börja upprätta folkkommuner eller skapa ett nytt Sovnarkom.
I en tid när tidningarna i princip slutat recensera facklitteratur (som inte är skriven av journalister…) känns det lite svårt att få spridning på sin bok. Då blir man glad över Bibliotekstjänsts recensioner, och extra glad när de är så här positiva!
Snow-clad open field, under maroonish skies, with trees surrounding it.
Sonetimes, Sweden actually does look like Sweden™ .
Meme of Lando Calrissian standing next to Boba Fett and saying "This deal us getting worse all the time".
When people keep trying to shift deadlines backwards not once, but twice...
Just saw on the other platform that Jonas Sibony has published his online dictionary of the Arabic Varieties of the Jews of Morocco
www.jonas-sibony.com/djm/
a Hebrew inscription in black paint on the whitewashed walls of the Old-New Synagogue, Prague
this bit of text on the wall of the Old New Synagogue in Prague (of golem fame) sent me down a rabbit hole involving gematria, Hebrew calendrics and Bohemian Yiddish. a thread
(Arkhipov 2023 argues specifically for the "finally!", "at last!" meaning:
academic.oup.com/jss/article-... )
The proofs of the book "Human-ness and God-ness in Biblical and Classical Culture" lying across the manuscript of the new article "Who We Are, What We Were, And Who We Will Be: Gnosticism, Essenes, and Martinism in Swedish Esoteric Orders and Roleplaying Games", both resting on the keyboard of my black laptop.
Akkadian phrase of tonight:
Lā watar!
("Enough!" or "At last!")
Enough work on the second proofs of one edited book and the writing of a new article for tonight. It's 00:57, and I'm going home!
