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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > What is this weird placard/token with Indic and Nordic scripts?
 
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The Indian writing is Sanskrit, it's an evocation of the Goddess Lakshmi, "bright and beautiful." It's written poorly though.

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TapTheForwardAssist posted:

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.
Whoever made it does not know how to write in Sanskrit well.

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TapTheForwardAssist posted:

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?
Looks like it. OM LAKSHMI THRAKODAIAT ("bright and beautiful") is the bit above; the stuff in the box says "hare Krishna hare." This seems kind of New-Agy?

Thanks to my roommate, this wasn't me!

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GreyjoyBastard posted:

The placard is literally the worst attempted transliteration (except it's transliterated into Sanskrit script :psyduck: ) of "aum" I've ever seen.

Like, I had to peer at it for a while until I figured out that it was them committing word crimes, not your roommate's translation being weird.
Yeah, that's what she said, that they kind of knew technically how to write those sounds but nobody would actually write it like that.

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icantfindaname posted:

That was my first impression of it. Maybe I'm being too negative though
Lakshmi though? She's the goddess of wealth, love, beauty, and all that junk. Super benevolent. Wouldn't esoteric Nazis be into the darker poo poo? Sounds like hippies to me.

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