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I was walking out of a flea market in Bogota, and amongst the unlicensed sidewalk vendors with random crap spread out on blankets, I found this odd little placard thing mixed amongst crap like stolen watches, chargers for long-obsolete cellphones, bundles of shoelaces, etc. The main script appears to be Hindi or something like it, but the big angular things across the middle look almost like Norse runes or something. Anyone have any idea what this thing is? My absolute shot-in-dark guess is it's some kind of gambling token, since it vaguely resembles those rectangular tokens some casinos use for large amounts. I figure someone here must recognize something of these scripts. And no goddam idea what it was doing with a sidewalk vendor in urban Colombia.
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Huh, Sanskrit and Norse Runes on one little plate. And it looks to be cast or something, so mass-produced on some level. Who in the world would need presumably dozens/hundreds of copies of this sort of thing? Thanks for the Sanskrit heads-up. Maybe it's some sort of good-luck token then? Now we just need to find someone who can read the Norse words. It doesn't have any kind of fastening or joining device, so it doesn't seem like it's made to attach to anything. Is it just supposed to sit on a desk, or be carried in the pocket? If it's Sansrkit and Norse, I'd presume it can't be anything too-too serious, probably just made for the novelty of it? Unless it is indeed some kind of white-power trinket that's supposed to be capitalizing on ancient Aryan languages or something. I'm still curious as to what this is/what it says, but that's almost superseded by by wondering why someone would take the trouble to have such a thing made.
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Nov 17, 2014 05:33
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Noctis Horrendae posted:The Norse is Younger Futhark. Can't help you with the translation or the Hindi. Good luck - seems interesting. Are you sure Younger? Looking online it seems to much better match Elder Futhark. This is not a phrase I imagined myself saying at any point in my life, and I'm a major language nerd. A bunch of the letters don't match Younger, but all but one letter, the angular "E" thing, match this chart of Elder: http://viking-source.com/Runes-Guide.html Here's what I transliterated it as: OMLAK?HMIHThRAKODAIAT
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Nov 17, 2014 06:11
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Y'all Sanskrit readers, so does the Rune part match part of the Sanskrit? Is the Lakshmi the upper Sanskrit part, or the bit down in the box below? EDIT: there's a flipside to the piece, but the back appears to be identical to the front except for the little mark to the right of the box, that looks kind of like an "®" trademark sign. Is it a trademark? Is this some sort of viable commercial product? Something Hot Topic ordered a few crates of? TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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