Famous 1970s Dinosaur Conlang Pakuni, Ancient Greek, Bees: Prometheus Text 2
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:04 am
Famous 1970s Dinosaur Conlang Pakuni, Ancient Greek, Bees: Prometheus Text 2
Here's more of the Pakuni Language from the 1970s dinosaur hit "Land of the Lost". Because Marc Zender's last post was about the insect-like Sleestak, here's the beehive part from the Ancient Greek language Prometheus Myth in Hesiod's Theogony. Nels Olsen
The name "Pakuni" was even invented by the Star Trek Original Series writer who wrote "The Trouble with Tribbles". It's probably supposed to sound like language names like Pakistani. His episodes even refer to the Klingon language as Klingoni! They hired a lot of Star Trek writers and so the fandoms overlap. (This discovery was recently made and posted in the LOTL fb group by Professor Marc Zender of Tulane University in New Orleans, USA!)
"Land of the Lost" was very popular, mostly among kids under 12, in 1974. It also featured TV or movies' first verifiable conlang (other than Esperanto), Pakuni. Of which I am a major decipherer and scholar.
Here's the grammars for the language and this blog also contains my deciphered corpus and dictionaries.
https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/1 ... w=flipcard
(Sleestak are evolved and de-evolved dinosaurs from another planet, in the tradition of the Morlocks from HG Wells' The Time Machine. Perhaps they evolved from triceratops? They're also based on such famed beings as the nagas of South and Southeast Asia, so I think.) The Pakuni language is based on the Kwa Languages of Ghana in West Africa perhaps because of their mechanical similarities to English.
I give the Ancient Greek, the English translation, and the Pakuni translation by me. Fromkin made the grammar and then Fromkin's words have _ after them. These mostly do occur in the TV series as well, though all animals have a- instead of i-.
I hope to type up my whole Pakuni translation of the thing eventually. The below follows Pakuni word order exactly and differs from its idioms little. This was done to make the translation go faster.
The image is from the big-budget 2009 movie.
https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/1 ... w=flipcard
Again, I'm somewhat versed in Ancient Greek and associated writings but each text is also its own island and its own work. I present the text because it's interesting but I should say it's one of the most negative things of its sort I've read in any ancient text. Sometimes things don't work out and sometimes they do. Hesiod here is focusing on the negative to stress the punishments of the god Zeus. I'm actually quite into Women's Studies, hence my decision to use this part of the Prometheus myth in Theogony. Though it's not really typical and leaves the reader a bit sore, right? (Theogony means "birth of the gods" and the book is mostly this big geneology for the gods and for the universe which seems to be composed of them or something.)
Sorry if anyone doesn't like their Ancient Greek that large. I like foreign language fonts in a nice, large size. Especially Classical Chinese, like Legge (and not like Edward Shaughnessy). Not to knock Shaughnessy's great scholarship. Toast!
...
And as in thatched hives bees
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἐν σμήνεσσι κατηρεφέεσσι μέλισσαι
And A_
as GURA
hives ODIKA
thatched BARGASA
, ,
bees ODIKI
595 κηφῆνας βόσκωσι, κακῶν ξυνήονας ἔργων—
αἳ μέν τε πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα
ἠμάτιαι σπεύδουσι τιθεῖσί τε κηρία λευκά,
οἳ δ᾽ ἔντοσθε μένοντες ἐπηρεφέας κατὰ σίμβλους
ἀλλότριον κάματον σφετέρην ἐς γαστέρ᾽ ἀμῶνται—
[595] feed the drones whose nature is to do mischief—by day and throughout the day until the sun goes down the bees are busy and lay the white combs, while the drones stay at home in the covered hives and reap the toil of others into their own bellies—
feed RAWA
drones IMUKUNI
which SHA_
nature OTEFE
is GU
for, Infinitive DAN_
do SHI_
mischief OPEKE
-
through PO
day INO_
and A_
throughout CHE
day INO_
- -
until SO
sun ESAM_
go KU_
down DUCHI_
bees ODIKI
are busy TATA
and A_
lay DADA
combs EKIDO-NI
white BAROSA-NI
while PO
drones IMUKUNI
stay KITO
in U_
home OKAJA
in U_]
skeps EGADANI
covered NEMNEMSA-NI
their WA-NI_
and A_
reap BONGBONG
the toil OKAGA
of FI
others AMAJINI
to OM_
their WANI_
own @
bellies TOPONI
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Here's more of the Pakuni Language from the 1970s dinosaur hit "Land of the Lost". Because Marc Zender's last post was about the insect-like Sleestak, here's the beehive part from the Ancient Greek language Prometheus Myth in Hesiod's Theogony. Nels Olsen
The name "Pakuni" was even invented by the Star Trek Original Series writer who wrote "The Trouble with Tribbles". It's probably supposed to sound like language names like Pakistani. His episodes even refer to the Klingon language as Klingoni! They hired a lot of Star Trek writers and so the fandoms overlap. (This discovery was recently made and posted in the LOTL fb group by Professor Marc Zender of Tulane University in New Orleans, USA!)
"Land of the Lost" was very popular, mostly among kids under 12, in 1974. It also featured TV or movies' first verifiable conlang (other than Esperanto), Pakuni. Of which I am a major decipherer and scholar.
Here's the grammars for the language and this blog also contains my deciphered corpus and dictionaries.
https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/1 ... w=flipcard
(Sleestak are evolved and de-evolved dinosaurs from another planet, in the tradition of the Morlocks from HG Wells' The Time Machine. Perhaps they evolved from triceratops? They're also based on such famed beings as the nagas of South and Southeast Asia, so I think.) The Pakuni language is based on the Kwa Languages of Ghana in West Africa perhaps because of their mechanical similarities to English.
I give the Ancient Greek, the English translation, and the Pakuni translation by me. Fromkin made the grammar and then Fromkin's words have _ after them. These mostly do occur in the TV series as well, though all animals have a- instead of i-.
I hope to type up my whole Pakuni translation of the thing eventually. The below follows Pakuni word order exactly and differs from its idioms little. This was done to make the translation go faster.
The image is from the big-budget 2009 movie.
https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/1 ... w=flipcard
Again, I'm somewhat versed in Ancient Greek and associated writings but each text is also its own island and its own work. I present the text because it's interesting but I should say it's one of the most negative things of its sort I've read in any ancient text. Sometimes things don't work out and sometimes they do. Hesiod here is focusing on the negative to stress the punishments of the god Zeus. I'm actually quite into Women's Studies, hence my decision to use this part of the Prometheus myth in Theogony. Though it's not really typical and leaves the reader a bit sore, right? (Theogony means "birth of the gods" and the book is mostly this big geneology for the gods and for the universe which seems to be composed of them or something.)
Sorry if anyone doesn't like their Ancient Greek that large. I like foreign language fonts in a nice, large size. Especially Classical Chinese, like Legge (and not like Edward Shaughnessy). Not to knock Shaughnessy's great scholarship. Toast!
...
And as in thatched hives bees
ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἐν σμήνεσσι κατηρεφέεσσι μέλισσαι
And A_
as GURA
hives ODIKA
thatched BARGASA
, ,
bees ODIKI
595 κηφῆνας βόσκωσι, κακῶν ξυνήονας ἔργων—
αἳ μέν τε πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα
ἠμάτιαι σπεύδουσι τιθεῖσί τε κηρία λευκά,
οἳ δ᾽ ἔντοσθε μένοντες ἐπηρεφέας κατὰ σίμβλους
ἀλλότριον κάματον σφετέρην ἐς γαστέρ᾽ ἀμῶνται—
[595] feed the drones whose nature is to do mischief—by day and throughout the day until the sun goes down the bees are busy and lay the white combs, while the drones stay at home in the covered hives and reap the toil of others into their own bellies—
feed RAWA
drones IMUKUNI
which SHA_
nature OTEFE
is GU
for, Infinitive DAN_
do SHI_
mischief OPEKE
-
through PO
day INO_
and A_
throughout CHE
day INO_
- -
until SO
sun ESAM_
go KU_
down DUCHI_
bees ODIKI
are busy TATA
and A_
lay DADA
combs EKIDO-NI
white BAROSA-NI
while PO
drones IMUKUNI
stay KITO
in U_
home OKAJA
in U_]
skeps EGADANI
covered NEMNEMSA-NI
their WA-NI_
and A_
reap BONGBONG
the toil OKAGA
of FI
others AMAJINI
to OM_
their WANI_
own @
bellies TOPONI
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