ON THE APOROS
From Cu'jara Cinmoi
The Aporos possesses a contradictory, or negative, semantics, and as such is able only to undo the positive semantics of things like the Gnosis, Psukhe, Anagogis - even the Daimos
I can't help but wonder if there are as many kinds of negative sematic sorceries as their are positives…
Also, I wonder if the gods' song could be considered 'positive' in which case the Aporos could be used to obliterate or remake the world.
ON SALTING
Would be neat to learn if there is any difference in kind. Is anagogic salt different from gnostic salt? Is a salted sorcerer of rank better/worse than a pupil? Is it like qirri in that way?
ON INCREASED POTENCY
Thinking about Titirga and Kellhus, one seems to draw power from 'purity of meaning' while the other may do the same thing but also adds an additional inutteral. I'm wondering if these are the only two ways a person can increase their magic power and what are the limits for both? I like Wilshire's notion that they are the same thing, but I could see them being different. One more emotive, the other more rational. Kellhus MUST use a third (or fourth or fifth) string because he lack's Titirga's mojo.
ON VARIETIES OF MAGIC
The succesion in humans of gnostic magic to anagogic to daimotic to psukhe gives the reader the most evidence of variety in sorcery. But the only thing we know about the nonmen is that they had a version of the gnosis and the aporos and we really don't know much different for the Consult. Both groups could have been developing lord knows what in the interval. Psukhe is only 300 years old. What could a 10,000 year old do? Perhaps we'll see some new kinds of sorcery in Ishterebinth. Even just like an elevated form of nonman anagogis would be sweet.
ON FANE
Maybe his ultimate explanation is that he met Ajokli out in the dessert and the trickster taught the old priest a whole new trick to screw with the world.
ON TRANSPOSING
If Serwa is lying about warping bruising the onta, then we might be in for a TUC treat that Kellhus has *already* been to Golgotterath! Maybe she's telling the truth though, in which case a meta-psukhari could have already mapped out the Ark. Left some meta-psukhari-wathi dolls to do saboteur's work.
ON LANGUAGE AND SORCERY
Really hoping Kellhus or someone is able to do some bad ass stuff utilizing the original, forgotten nonman language. Also, what do you get if you sing in a tongue like the srancs'? Also, since the Anagogis uses a nonman language, does this imply some kind of nonman tutelage that is unrecorded?
ON UTTERALS
I get the feeling that these are unnecessary to people like Kellhus/Moenghus. Kellhus probably keeps using them to give others the impression that if he doesn't have his mouth open, he isn't casting.
ON RANKING SORCERERS
Maybe Shae is #1? If that guy is 10 fused souls and mouths, that's a shitload of utterals and inutterals. I assume Kellhus has thought about this, don't know what a person could do to combat it. Perhaps Kellhus will apply (has already?) the same principle and fuse some stuff on himself to up the anty. Maybe like a crown containing many sorcerous souls? Maybe he'll just possess a hundred or so of his sorcerers and be effectively a bigger Shae than Shae.
ON SHAMANS
Did the Inchoroi do something to humans to extinguish the position of shaman? If shaman's did magic and were not damned for it, then the perhaps the Inchoroi did something to the human soul/world soul/whatever that made doing magic a crime against nature. The upshot (for the Inchoroi) is that less people would go into sorcery and the faithful would fight sorcerers thus minimizing the number of human sorcerers that the Inchoroi would have to deal with. Lol, idk.
Maybe interaction with the nonmen 'poisoned' human ability to manipulate the onta. Something not rectified until Fane. The nonmen are so dark and don't think they'd give a fuck about teaching humans how damn themselves.
Any nonmen shamans in Ishterebinth's cellar?