Ola Wikander

RIP Steve The Colonel Cropper.

Three English translations of Pasqually's "Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings".

Etruscan word of the day:
Ci ("three").

Pictured: three recent English translations of the same 18th century French work.

Three English translations of Pasqually's "Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings".

Etruscan word of the day:
Ci ("three").

Pictured: three recent English translations of the same 18th century French work.

From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal The discovery and development of metals as tool media is a topic of global interest. This phenomenon is generally associated with sedentary, agricultural societies; however, in North America metal use...

This is the best-titled academic monograph I have seen in awhile:

From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America, edited by Michelle Rae Bebber and Christopher B. Wolff.

"Not just the translation – a parsed analysis, please!"

Ordered two huge volumes of Amadou's scholarly edition of Saint-Martin!

Altar table, with Sophia statue, chalices, a visible letter waw, Martinist pantacles, a Gnostic prayer book, a large altar candles, and other ritual items.

Hurrian word of the day:
šug-am- ("to make one, to unite").

Hurrian šug=am (“to unite”) and Its Context in ChS I/1 41 | Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol 75, No 2

(on this factitive verb from "one", see Campbell's argument, here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... )

Altar table, with Sophia statue, chalices, a visible letter waw, Martinist pantacles, a Gnostic prayer book, a large altar candles, and other ritual items.

Hurrian word of the day:
šug-am- ("to make one, to unite").

Street in Lund, with flame-like, reddish clouds and colors, with trees and pinnacled buildings in the background.

Ugaritic word of the day:
nblảt ("flames").

Street in Lund, with flame-like, reddish clouds and colors, with trees and pinnacled buildings in the background.

Ugaritic word of the day:
nblảt ("flames").

🍔 A ban on the word ‘veggie burger’?! Tell EU leaders to vote against it!

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Will [Normal OT/HB Studies Journal X] like my long, highly specialized comp-phil-ish article with phonology and materials from numerous different linguistic families which still ends up in a sort of "theological" argument (in the academic sense of the word)? Hmm... questions...

The cover of Jonas Brun's novel "Skuggland", featuring a silhouette against a fence.

Ugaritic phrase of the day:
spr ẓlm ("document of shades").

Pictured: Jonas Brun's wonderful novel "Skuggland" ("Shadowland"). A personal favorite of mine. So, so sad, though...

Just heard on YouTube:

"Greek is a more philosophical language, so Greek-speakers thought in more metaphysical categories [...] Latin is a more legal language, so Latin-speakers thought in categories of morality and authority".

Ugh.

Kondoleanser!

Samma här.

The pronunciations are hilarious, though :)

YouTube video by Weird Place We need to talk about Swedish TTRPGs

The Swedish RPG miracle, for those not in the know - really good overview:

youtu.be/GVASRMumGjI?...

My book on dragon mythology (2025) and my fantasy novel omnibus (2024) - "Den undflyende ormen" ("The Fleeing Serpent") and "Stjärnan, Gryningens son", "Morning Star, Son of Dawn".

Mina två senaste (2025 och 2024); trots genreskillnaden är familjelikheten större än man kunde tro!
/ My two latest books (2025 and 2024, respectively); despite the difference in genre, the family resemblance is greater than one might think!

My book on dragon mythology (2025) and my fantasy novel omnibus (2024) - "Den undflyende ormen" ("The Fleeing Serpent") and "Stjärnan, Gryningens son", "Morning Star, Son of Dawn".

Mina två senaste (2025 och 2024); trots genreskillnaden är familjelikheten större än man kunde tro!
/ My two latest books (2025 and 2024, respectively); despite the difference in genre, the family resemblance is greater than one might think!

Parthian word of the day
/dašt/ "desert, plain"

as in Sundermann, MKG, 799-801
/aδyān až dūr maδyān dašt kadag ēw wēnēndēh/
"then from far away he sees a house in the middle of the plain"

/wēn-ēndēh/ is optative, a so-called "parabolic optative," on which see Durkin-Meisterernst, Gramm., §810

The cover of Jonas Brun's novel "Skuggland", featuring a silhouette against a fence.

Ugaritic phrase of the day:
spr ẓlm ("document of shades").

Pictured: Jonas Brun's wonderful novel "Skuggland" ("Shadowland"). A personal favorite of mine. So, so sad, though...

Me out walking in the snow!

*Snoigwhos!

Hahahah!

Oh, I just happened to begin writing a new article (on a debated issue of Ugaritic morphosyntax). Just kinda fell into it :-)

Cover of Joshua Blau''s "Topics in Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics", with nonsense syllables.

ʾăḏāvaḥŏkkis(ĕ)...?

Oh yeah, it's excellent writing.

Doing a new rewatch of SPOP. And man, how damaged Catra is. Like, she seriously needs treatment... I'd honestly forgotten how disturbed she is around seasons 3 and 4.

Article manuscript by self, with pencilled comments by self here and there.

Editing myself, so to speak. This article has sure grown! Wrote the basic thing in Rome in April and May, but lots of stuff has been added since then. There's Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sam'alian, Hittite, and Luwian in there.