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Old 02-26-2005, 09:24 AM   #1
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Significance of Character: Æ

I've always wondered why they used this symbol "Æ". Is it because it looks like the 'a' and 'e' mushed together in a cool way? Thanks!

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Re: Significance of Character: Æ

It might be that they like to shop at American Eagle.
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and the book aegypt might have something to do with it.
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Dude you have boobs in your avatar lol.

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It's probably because it signifies the merging of the words Anima and Enema, both relating to the theme of the album.
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Old 02-27-2005, 09:49 AM   #5
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Re: Significance of Character: Æ

It's an actual letter in danish, it pronounced much lige "ae", as a single letter, it's pretty hard to explain.

But I also think it's because the two words Anima/Enema has been pushed together...
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Re: Significance of Character: Æ

Thanks for your help guys :)
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Re: Significance of Character: Æ

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It's an actual letter in danish, it pronounced much lige "ae", as a single letter, it's pretty hard to explain.

But I also think it's because the two words Anima/Enema has been pushed together...
Æ is also a sacred character that came from Tibet. It is pronounced ahhh with a deep sound resonating from the middle chest (where your heart ckakra is located). This is used as a meditation to stimulate the awareness of the heart chakra and in turn, eventually open it. They began using this symbol in sacred words or names so they would be easilly recognized and also stimulate a sort of automatic association between the word and spirituality when spoken.

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Re: Significance of Character: Æ

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Æ is also a sacred character that came from Tibet. It is pronounced ahhh with a deep sound resonating from the middle chest (where your heart ckakra is located). This is used as a meditation to stimulate the awareness of the heart chakra and in turn, eventually open it. They began using this symbol in sacred words or names so they would be easilly recognized and also stimulate a sort of automatic association between the word and spirituality when spoken.
That's an anachronism, if true at all. Tibetans don't use a phonetic alphabet like we do. Further Tibetans don't even use the vowel "a" like we would imagine. It may be that a linguist, attempting to make Tibetan into a more recognizable language, used the æ to describe it... though tonal languages are a bit complex for that...

Check out: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tibetan.htm

As for the æ itself, it's attributed to Latin which, now dead, attributed itself to much of the linguistic alphabet. If you wish to understand it on that level see:
http://www.utexas.edu/its/unix/refer...a96529/ch4.htm

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