Nope never caught this before. Hidden in plain sight. Call them singers or choruses and no one will notice if they never actually sing. It's actually a great cognitive trick and a classic illusion.
It's amazing how easy it is to short circuit the human brain. Give something a name and the mass delusion is we all universally edit in information to support that name/definition subconsciously.
I am prepared to be embarrassed by many things TUC reveals. This whole thing is probably something close to a social experiment anyway.
OOOO! I've an idea.
First, the quote from TDTCB and Mallahet:
"I have come, Emperor, so you might parlay with another."
Xerius blinked. "Who?"
For a moment, it seemed the Nail of Heaven flashed from the Cishaurim's brow.
So, no words, no glowing of the eyes or mouth (my bad).
Gnostic and anagogic sorcery are more bound to this world (through reason and metaphor), and so require the outspoken utteral as the portal through which will is made manifest.
BUT, the Psukhe, the passion-based sorcery, requires not an utteral and an inutteral, but a conscious inutteral and a subconscious inutteral. A perfect fusion of feeling and thought.
Perhaps, even, it is the utteral which stains the onta.
I like your thinking here.
Also the fact that it comes from thoughts, and the light shines from their forehead, makes me realize that the similarity in names between "Psukhe" and "Psyche" is probably deliberate.
Cishaurim=psionicist, not sorcerer.
Haha, closer than you even
know:
under definitions for Psyche:
From latin, from greek psukhe breath, soul; related to greek psukhein to breathe
I suspect that never getting a POV from a Cish is deliberate, but I'll skim through TJE and WLW to see if Meppa ever gives an indication that he is one of the Few.
In Kell and Moe's conversation when they describe each other's paths through the world, neither of them bring up Moe being one of the Few (they mention him being sent off, as a brilliant mind and interpreter of the Kipfa'aifan, to the Cish, but that's it).
Personally, I think it's not the sorcerers, but the practice, that separates them from the other Schools.
Agreed that POVs are all very deliberate, and the lack there of.
I think the Puske is truely the only different mechanism for magic in Earwa. Gnosis and anagogic are basically the same, and the aporos is derived from the former.
Psuke is the only school that arose without the help of Nonmen (as far as we know), and the only school that does not use a nonman tongue to wield its miracles.
I think she has a type of Autism, another defective only fit for the unmasking room in Ishual, if girls are allowed there. At the rate Kellhus is putting out defectives the majority of Ishual must be defectives, unless it is simply the inbreeding that makes fertility so difficult with the worldborn. The majority vast majority of babies born in Ishual must die before procreating, much like in the wild where ninety percent mortality rates are common. But I'm starting to suspect maybe the Dunyain are a matriarchy of some type, we have only seen two elder Dunyain throughout the series.
Autism, or somewhere on the spectrum at least, seems like a great explanation for Thelopia. Something like Aspergers maybe. Other thoughts about dunyain inbreeding can be found all around this forum.