The Apparition Creature Runes
This post is to organize the thought process the Eden’s Rest discord server went through trying to figure out what the runes in the Apparition drawing really mean.
I hope my explanation is clear enough to follow!
We went from casually wondering what the runes meant to realizing they spelled nothing, to trying to flip them upside down and realizing they still spelled nothing, to finding a tik tok that led down a new rabbit hole entirely.
The person in this tik tok talks about an article they found about medieval language. SMCEN was written as smœn (which is also written as smoen).
Here’s the link to the article they were talking about in the tik tok:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43628078
You can only access the article if you have a subscription to jstor, whether through your school or otherwise, but the sample page here has the passage the tik tok is talking about. Trying to figure out the literary jargon hurt my head. It talks about “mamorian” and “mamra” (which come from the same root word) meaning “to be deep in thought about something” or “sleep.” Trying to clear up what the article was saying about “smoen” after that and connect it all together was hard but here’s what i got:
It seems to say that smœn is linked to the word smean, which is a variation of the Old English word smeagan.
From the Wikipedia entry for smeagan ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smeagan#Old_English ):
Verb
smēaġan
consider, think about
meditate
examine, scrutinize, question
These definitions line up with the definition assigned to mamorian. I hope you can follow how my brain made this leap, but this made me feel confident enough to say the jstor article is saying both mamra and smoen mean sleep or at least something similar to it.
So we have our translation of SMCEN:
SLEEP
The rest is far less confusing. I think.
Now that I knew I should use Smoen as a search term and that it was a medieval word, google helped me a lot more.
I found this book about the Magical Treatise of Solomon:
You can search the book for the word “smoen” and that’s how I found a lot more I could use to find answers.
I found some alternate versions of smoen that helped with searching: Skonin and Skoen
I found that Smoen was a demon linked to the angel Patiel (or Pathiel)
This book also has a whole page of runes, some of which are similar to the Sundowning runes. It’s page 323 of the book if you want to see.
This book has a lot to it, but for the purposes of this rune translation attempt, I moved on.
The book mentioned lots of Greek words and names so I applied that to my search for the meanings of the other runes.
In Greek and Latin the letter j did not exist. “I” was used in place of “J.” So I switched the j in the remaining runes to an i. (AJR -> AIR)
I searched for info on ESIO maybe being a medieval latin word and I found this source:
(which is from the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources)
It said this:
estio --> esio
esto (adv.)
esto (adv.)
so i searched for Esto and found this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esto
And that said…
Etymology 1
Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA: /ˈeːs.toː/, [ˈeːs̠t̪oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈes.to/, [ˈɛst̪o]
Verb
ēstō
second/third-person singular future active imperative of edō
So I think ESIO could mean EAT.
At this point my brain was leaking out of my ears so I gave up thinking. I decided AIR just meant AIR.
Air = Breathe???
And that’s the story of how the discord chat decided it said...
EAT BREATHE SLEEP
The end?
Eden's Rest friends involved in the making of this monster: @ccsven and @r-e-dax-t-e-d
Here’s @ccsven's drawing where we started trying to figure out wtf that said. And oh man, did we. Did we? I still don’t know.
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