{"id":5970,"date":"2013-09-22T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2013-09-22T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:51:31","slug":"so-you-want-to-worship-the-old-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5970","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to Worship the Old Gods . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hipster-Jon-Snow-game-of-thrones-23594329-362-500.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5971\" alt=\"Hipster-Jon-Snow-game-of-thrones-23594329-362-500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hipster-Jon-Snow-game-of-thrones-23594329-362-500.jpg?resize=362%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hipster-Jon-Snow-game-of-thrones-23594329-362-500.jpg?w=362&amp;ssl=1 362w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hipster-Jon-Snow-game-of-thrones-23594329-362-500.jpg?resize=108%2C150&amp;ssl=1 108w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hipster-Jon-Snow-game-of-thrones-23594329-362-500.jpg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a>There are people who think that in order to do so, you have to learn &#8220;their&#8221; language, as spoken centuries ago, because the gods don&#8217;t keep up or something, let alone communicate in non-verbal ways.<\/p>\n<p>All right, then.<\/p>\n<p>You want to deal with Werunos (Sanskrit, <em>Varuna<\/em>), keeper of cosmic order? <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/archaeologymag\/king-and-god\">Talk this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all explained at this link from <em>Archaeology<\/em> magazine on the reconstructed pronunciation of Proto-Indo-European: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/archaeology.org\/exclusives\/articles\/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable\">Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I played that clip for M., and she said that it reminded her of the 1970s\u201380s vogue for playing songs backwards to hear the &#8220;Satanic messages.&#8221; Maybe that&#8217;s the crucial fault in reconstructionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who think that in order to do so, you have to learn &#8220;their&#8221; language, as spoken centuries ago, because the gods don&#8217;t keep up or something, let alone communicate in non-verbal ways. All right, then. You want to deal with Werunos (Sanskrit, Varuna), keeper of cosmic order? Talk this way. It&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,212,5],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-language","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1yi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5513,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5513","url_meta":{"origin":5970,"position":0},"title":"Talking like the Old Ones","author":"Chas S. 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