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A carregar... Unknown Language (edição 2020)por Huw Lemmey (Autor), Hildegard von Bingen (Autor), Bhanu Kapil (Introdução)
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Long, long before the Information Age ended, young Hildegard of Bingen finds beauty in the moral and spiritual ruins of her medieval world. In her forty-third year, she inscribes her cosmic visions into Scivias, an indescribably beautiful codex of writing and illuminations thought to be destroyed during the evacuation of Earth.In a sea cave with cracked amethyst walls on Avaaz, Pinky Agarwalia discovers fragments of this visionary text containing hitherto unknown pathways to a lost vision of human co-existence with plants and non-humans - and the seeds of its rebirth on Avaaz. Bursting with mythic quantum energy, Hildegard's vital linguistic potion viriditas, threaded throughout her communiqués, is a lush, verdant, renewable life-force. Her ecological message may be just the magic needed for rebirth on Avaaz.Hildegard's mystic toolkit for the future includes a cosmology, medicine, a morphology of crystals, recipes - and the symbols of a new language. As Pinky Agarwalia traces the diagrams with her fingertip, she suddenly understands - a vision that appears without warning in her own mind - that she must first immerse these materials in water, a guarded substance. In the water, the molecules of the hidden language dissolve, freeze then reconfigure into new shapes, the crystalline language communicated not through sound but by feeling and light. Lingua Ignota, Hildegard's mysterious invented 'unknown language', arrives just in time for a world in flux, one whose coordinates are being recast. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Review of the Ignota Books paperback edition (2020)
Image of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias Codex: Plate 32 The End of Times sourced from https://www.abtei-st-hildegard.de/%e2%80%9cscivias%e2%80%9d-kodex-tafel-32-das-e...
(Turn on web translator for German language to read an interpretation of the image)
Unknown Language is a commissioned work comprising three texts inspired by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179). The book's title is the English translation of Hildegard's invented Lingua Ignota with "Ignota" (Unknown) also being the source of the name of the publisher of esoteric & mystical books.
Bhanu Khapil's space-age Pinky Agarwalia serves as an Introduction and Alice Spawl's essay O Viriditas Digita Dei on Hildegard's life serves as an Afterward. Those works bookend the main text by Huw Lemmey which he co-credits to Hildegard herself, as he based it around the visions which she documented in 3 of her main works.
Lemmey's story tells of a woman working as a Doctor for a Health Administration in a futuristic totalitarian society. This world is visited by the actual End of Times apocalypse with angelic visitors dealing out salvation or damnation as appropriate. The Doctor escapes from the city and travels through a mostly deserted countryside and eventually allies herself with a punkish traveller as they make their way to a hopeful existence. The story often aligns with aspects of Hildegard's life e.g. there is a reference to a woman named Jutta (Hildegard's own first spiritual mentor etc.) in the protagonist's childhood and the plotline is often drawn from Hildegard's visions. Occasionally some italicized text shows where Hildegard's own words are quoted.
I can't really be unbiased about this book as I've been somewhat of a Hildegard fan since the mid-1980's after hearing her music recorded on the Gothic Voices album A Feather on the Breath of God (1982). Lemmey, Khapil and Spawls have done a terrific job in taking Hildegard's work into a futuristic space-time and Ignota Books have published a lovely tribute to their inspiration.
I read Unknown Language as my February 2021 selection from the Republic of Consciousness Book of the Month (BotM) club. The February BotM pick was a reader's choice from among the 2021 Longlist of nominees for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Subscriptions to the BotM support the annual Republic of Consciousness Prize for small independent publishers.
Trivia and Links
Read a synopsis of the text and see the related illustrated plates in Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias at Scivias Summary and Illustrations.
Read about Five Influences on Unknown Language by Huw Lemmey at the Ignota Books Blog here.
Watch the online book launch with all the authors for Unknown Language by Ignota Books at their YouTube channel here. (