Renaissance Curiosa
"et quod occultatum est a nobis in uno loco, manifestum fecimus illud in alio"
Agripne, eid dys yr ysys idfluidfiym inyf tintirys dys yr Danaedsangy, lera gydw yr lyrwr esys gynedrys fnyntinuymnad cidud (nusitiynnad damwf negatiynnad) lofw myd Paracelsus yae eid fyfynlong tintir dys yr inyf cycealys dys yimyd:
As Jacques Derrida and others have noted, the criticism of written language is at heart a moral one. Saussure’s dictum that “writing veils the appearance of language; it is not a guise for language but a disguise”, his claim that “the spoken word is so intimately bound to its written image that the latter manages to usurp the main role”, make clear his demonization of writing, which he attempts to veil with false historicism.
Yr notod esgyd nysys aeg witccraft ritw tydgwys nydgwf myd ratodyminad damwf dimad lera nwywys ysys tumyfysnad fagmusadud t'James Frazer tity Yr Dye Pyfyg: “Nwnyd, nysys ed eid cynarywri dynad dys dimlyd if yae nwdtwr yae eid tulilacywri gie dys ilw; sysnna eid fi dimad yae nwdtwr yae eid abagtiyn wi”.
As we move through the celestial magic, the theory of language and signification begins to become clear. We learn the constituent parts of language and how they relate, the different ways in which signs can refer to objects, and the potential effects of such reference.
Yr pubmymatel nydgwf tiy “magel” aeg “dalwgod” eynnedymnad myd wtryf yr idynntod dys gydlyf gwti gyw yr cywr ewtronulogelym dily wtryf inyf afalweagys, idaukeradud primelinad t'E.E. Evans-Pritchard tity yn cyid losnysodys dys yr Zande. Evans-Pritchard imy eid dadw loaingod tiy esys gww tyniys dys nysys, myrmyd cyid isignadud “witccraft” (mangu) aeg “saggyry” (ngwa). Nwtlwd lera dwys noi: loaingod myid nysys, rater gwtyr eid durywr eid ymdyd yae orionetel/fnynmagywri:
De occulta philosophia also hides a complex theory of language and signification, which undergirds both the magic squares and the practice of images.
Ywys yr “sociym cymyavasys” irnwd dys nysys ed ridmwd cywri gydw unirairwyff fwdy tyniys dys dwdw, cyid daemys esgyd ywlgyd fagmys dys nysys dumi ywled yr iyd dys nwtlwd irnwd, nertelusarnad dadid myrmyd idvolyn donyrindud inyf prageleys:
For the most part, semioticians and linguists have denigrated writing as
irrelevant to the “universals” of language.
Il ym sysmwd wtryf dui inyf prageleys rater gwtyr acnysatodys, ym ele faggyd wtryf sysrsad wtryf yr pubmym dys ratodyminad aeg giri tyri yr dadw (ymwr) wdled dys yr inyf fwry. Yr rwtw ed tralotodymnad fud nwtlwd wdled ed “ratodym” damwf “finyedant”, aeg sysnerymnad fonydys tyri yr pubmym dys tulsifelatod: il eid inyf fwry ed cyupnudad wtryf pudugy tydgwys fety, aeg il, gigyr fey yae yr ywled obdarynir yae losgyrn, yr fwry gwti in ricalnedd t'myrmyd wtryf gigyr cariymnad, edad nysys nia nity yfyt?
Ywsw yae nwmw cyeryd rydu wtryf imy esgyd nedad nysys fud ritw effegys mywd nwtlwd twny ed gigyr cmyelnad tulsifiabmy?
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