Ugaritic word of the day: Khn /kāhinu/, "priest".

Hittite word of the day: Āškaz ("outdoors, outside", literally "out of the door/gate", ablative).

Jakten på de försvunna indexposterna.

Om nya boken och metaforskningsanalys av forskar/författarsjälvet, eller hur man nu skall uttrycka det :-) : ola-wikander.blogspot.com/2026/01/drak...

Effectively threatening war because you didn't get the peace prize is... quite something.

Ugaritic word of the day: Mtr ("additionally").

Nu har programmet för Koncentrat, min lilla science fiction- och fantasylitteraturkongress som tar plats i mitt vardagsrum i slutet av mars, börjat ta form. Det finns fortfarande ett par luckor, men man börjar ana vad vi kommer att prata om. johanjonsson.net/koncentrat.h...

Ugaritic word of the day: Mtr ("additionally").

Or he could just do the world a favor and stop making Avatar movies.

Sure, languages of the Caucasus and Coptic have massive consonant clusters, but how about one of my favorite Swedish words – "västkustskts" ("belonging to something inanimate belonging to the West Coast")?

Ugaritic word of the day: Ugaritic word of the day: ʾiqnʾu ("lapis lazuli", "lapis lazuli-colored", "blue", "violet blue", "purple").F

Den 28/3 deltar jag på fantastikkonferensen Koncentrat i Malmö och pratar kaosdrakar! Mycket kul program rent allmänt – se här: johanjonsson.net/koncentrat.h...

Ālak peke, ālak pekant - kyal mā kärsnāt?

Like so!

Tonight, yours truly's proofreading of this one will commence: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/human-ness...

Ah, there it is — caught my ceremonial first "'we' do this thing" meaning "many in the US do this thing" instance of the year today.

Ugaritic word of the day: ʕṣr ("bird"). Possibly attested with vocalization in the writing u-ṣú-ru.

I like this one, especially the attestation of the original (pre-Hebrew) affricate pronunciation of *s3 (=Hebrew samekh) as [ts], rendered as <ṯ> in Egyptian (a sign used for, more or less, "ch" in "change").

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

Me too, though I will accept voiceless (and long), voiced preglottalized (or creaky) and breathy voiced as well.

Jag pratar i Fritte Fritzsons podd "Allt du velat veta" (för andra gången!) och talar om min nya drakbok, "Den undflyende ormen" - semitiska, indoeuropeiska, drakkamp, stormgudar, hela grejen! overcast.fm/+AA11Ga6H8n0...

Danmark samlas till säkerhetspolitiskt krismöte med anledning av USA:s ouvertyrer. Samtidigt är EU redo att skänka bort våra biometriska data till Washington. arbetet.se/2026/01/06/g...

Jag pratar i Fritte Fritzsons podd "Allt du velat veta" (för andra gången!) och talar om min nya drakbok, "Den undflyende ormen" - semitiska, indoeuropeiska, drakkamp, stormgudar, hela grejen! overcast.fm/+AA11Ga6H8n0...

Huh, Scotland apparently retired "Not Proven" at the start of the new year. Sic transit gloria (??) mundi.

Donald Trump visar prov på naken imperialism i Venezuela, men Ulf Kristerssons och andra europeiska ledare bugar sig. Nu måste frågan ställas: kommer Sverige att vara där för våra grannar om USA anfaller Grönland?

GPhRS PhP MPs GSST! Also, medical prescription.

Asthma suck sucks sucks sucks sucks. That aside, Happy new year to all!

Ugaritic word of the day: mnrt ("candelabrum").

People make fun of ABBA's lyrics – sometimes deservedly. But you gotta admit, "Running the gauntlet in a whirl of lace" is one hell of a line.

Sophiansk-gnostisk julmässa i Lund nu på lördag 3/1: gnosis-lund.se

Ugaritic word of the day: mnrt ("candelabrum").

Plowing ahead through the Araṇemi-Jātaka!

Sanslöst. People, don't do these things.

The new year coming up, I'm thinking of whether I should start doing a bit of online teaching of some ancient languages. Mainly, of course, Ugaritic, but other stuff would be possible as well (Hurrian, perhaps a bit of Hittite or Akkadian). Any spontaneous interest? Just checking as of now.

"With the seals in my hands I shall descend, through all Aeons I shall proceed, All mysteries I shall disclose, the forms of the gods I shall manifest. And the secrets of the holy way, known as Gnōsis, I shall impart."

Sumerian word of the day: ezen, ezem (𒂡) - "festival", borrowed into Akkadian as isinnu(m), with the same meaning.

I published a book that summarized my scholarship on how speakers of Indo-European and Semitic shared myths and words about dragons; I also published on how the Élu Coën order reused texts from Psalms and the Corpus Hermeticum, partly to express similar mythological dragon motifs.

Luwian word of the day: azzussattalla- ("to ride on horseback, to act as a rider" – i.e. the best attested term that could be used to express "to be a knight").

Luwian word of the day: azzussattalla- ("to ride on horseback, to act as a rider" – i.e. the best attested term that could be used to express "to be a knight").

Köp en kaosorm som julklapp! Jahve, Indra, Baal, andra stormgudar, franska esoteriker, gnostiska ormar, tocharer - och annat kul! Samt hebreiska, ugaritiska, akkadiska, anglosaxiska, syriska, luviska, hettitiska, tochariska, latin, grekiska, avestiska och annat sådant!

Köp en kaosorm som julklapp! Jahve, Indra, Baal, andra stormgudar, franska esoteriker, gnostiska ormar, tocharer - och annat kul! Samt hebreiska, ugaritiska, akkadiska, anglosaxiska, syriska, luviska, hettitiska, tochariska, latin, grekiska, avestiska och annat sådant!

Julklappstips!

To the Hurrian horses!

The Chiffons Nico Michiru Yamane Yoko Shimomura AKB48

To the Hurrian horses!

Julklappstips!

Ꜥnḫ. ⲁⲛⲥⲟⲩⲱⲛⲕ.

Ꜥnḫ. ⲁⲛⲥⲟⲩⲱⲛⲕ.

What happened in Sydney is a horrific atrocity. Horrible. This shit has to stop.

Ugaritic words of the day: / Yišlam lēkumu / ("Hello to you / may there be peace to you!")