28: The Kanar Exegesis
5/3/2012
I’ve been working more this past week on the Kanar breakdowns. Done with 20 of them, 20 left to go. They’re each about a page long, but I can only manage finishing two a day at most. There are so many elements to each glyph – the translation, the principle it represents, the totemic image associated with it, the mythology behind it, philosophy, its use in divination and shamanism, and its use as a talisman. And making sure it all ties in consistently with the other 39 glyph’s mythology, etc.
It’s a slow process of sifting through my notes and integrating the most appropriate information for each one. The work is a bit monotonous, but I’m happy with the end result, so that keeps me going. It’s a lot to juggle though while putting it together, and I hope to be done with the first draft of all 40 this month.
I believe I will be where I am for at least another year. It’s my intention to finish the first book in that time, as well as the Vodun sketched, Kanar breakdowns, and “The Song of Mugasha” fable. If I can achieve those main objectives I will consider this year a success. So far, I’ve been wasting a lot of time though. We’ll see.
Present-Day Reflection
6/22/2026
14 years later and I still haven’t got done what I hoped to get done back in 2012. The final edits are not yet completed on the first book, Wings of Providence. The Song of Mugasha from The Napatawalata is only ¼ of the way done. And I was up until 2AM last night working on getting the Kanar breakdowns transcribed from my handwritten copies to a digital format so I can upload them to this website.
I no longer call them “breakdowns”, however. Now they’re called the Kanar Exegesis. A more fitting term for what they really are. Though there’s only 40 handwritten pages to the Exegesis, transcribing the phonetics using hex code with Word is a painstaking process. And finding a way to showcase each glyph and their iconography in an appropriate way is proving to be a challenge as well.
That being said, it will all be done in a couple of days. Or at least, that’s the plan.
