"Myriaddium"....

Hmmm, it does roll off the tongue in that toolish sense

Just so you know, "dium" does not mean "day" in Latin, and "myriad" is of Greek origin.

I don't think Finnish is a latin-based language, is it? Looking at it, I don't see anything even remotely familiar... so no, I wouldn't expect it to translate into something obvious like that. Maybe I'm wrong...

What made you think it was finnish to begin with? Just curious.

Then what is 'day' in latin? Or greek, for that matter.

Finnish is non-Indo-European, and unrelated to any other language spoken today.

Diem is day in latin. Not Dium.

When you put it into Google, the websites that come up end in .fi, which is the Finland thing. Also, there are some programs that tell you the probability of what language you're imputting is... Some of them said Finnish.

the actual word for myriad in finnish is "myriadi", but a form of that word is "myriadia"

most translators do not handle alternative word forms, so that explains most not finding a result

Exactly, thats why I would be surprised if it had anything to do with the word 'myriad'.

So Myriadiem or Myriaddiem? Doesn't look too bad... rolls off the tongue pretty nicely.

Oh.

Its still a cool name for the album. Even if it really is "10,000 Days", I could still call it Myriadia or Myriadiem and be right.

Okay before we lose sight... Lets organize everything we have accumlated thus far in this thread. Give me about 5 minutes and I'll list it.

remember, I introduced the term "myriadia", so you shouldn't really look to deeply into it.

EDIT: and zenkinet gets half credit for saying "myradian"

He mentions the word Myriad, now I don't know if and of you realized this, but that means Ten Thousand in Archaic.

Inside which appears a holy man-fish whose face is ensphered by a radiant gloriole.
Arrayed in myriad tinted reflections, I behold the majesty of its gestures,

TOOL NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2004... About a trip.. to .. Iceland...


What had happened is that, after the message indicator spelled out ********, the planchette then moved very quickly across the board and actually bumped into the leg of one of the sitters. This was Srr. (technikrym omitted). What makes this particularly remarkable (in light of this new track listing) is that the Soror's first initial is M.

Feb Newsletter....

TOOL:
BACK TO THE DRY-ERASE MESSAGE BOARD

Having returned from their holiday cheer to the dystopia that is much of Hollywood, at precisely 12:06 (when Danny arrived) on Thursday, January 6th, 2005 e.v., the members of TOOL gathered at the rehearsal space to resume writing and arranging the music for their next record. Although I'm not going to pay them a visit until tomorrow (after all, they're probably a little rusty - and there's nothing worse than a Daedalian-complex train wreck), while gazing into Danny's psychomantium (after fixing a faulty float connected with its make-shift pump), I was able to discern in its dark surface certain new additions to the arsenal designed to pierce the aethyrs.

"Don't panic" I told myself, Maynard doesn't have internet access or get good cell reception in that submarine-craft of his on the ocean sea-bed, so he probably doesn't even know about the blurb. Still we've got to keep this thing quiet - that is if you want the new Tool record to proceed according to schedule. Even you readers... yes YOU, Tool Collective members with your damn message board and chats (which, fortunately, are probably down), keep your lips sealed. In fact, if you have to discus this with your TA friends, it might be prudent to discreetly tap their shoes with yours using Morse code. Just tap out something like 34D243334D117 and they'll know exactly what you're talking about.

I'm the one who started asking for alternate words for 'day', and you came up with that. What language is 'dia', anyway?

read the first page

Okay thats everything...

The thing is, you're combining a Greek-based word for "countless" (or "ten thousand") with the Latin word for "day". Also, the nominative plural of "days" in Latin is "dies", not "diem".

Nono... I'm listing all of the evidence throughout the thread. I am just pulling quotes from threads that have made valid refernces to blairs comments and myriad

Because of that little thing Blair said about the "M..." word, which very well could have been refering to the album title, it probably will have something to do with Myriad.

Myriadiem fits into those asterisks in that last Blair post, too.

So whats the Greek word for 'day'?

Yeah it does.

I am now officially convinced that 10,000 Days is a hoax.

Yeah, I know. We established that myriad is Greek, and I mispelled diem (which is Latin). It would be possible, all be it unlikely, that early Greeks/Romans would place both of them together. But in the context of this post they where asking for something that would go along with days and I thought dia/diem. But I think latin is "too easy".

you guys may have stumbeld across something

Yeah... Viginti Tres, anyone?

Good point.

I'm trying to figure out how the rest of the tracklisting fits in with any of this...

Jambi is a province of Indonesia. How about that.

Isnt it possible that the tracks are legit and the title is "Myriadiem"?

I suppose its possible. Although... if '10,000 Days' isn't real, the tracklisting prolly isn't either.

Maybe the tracklisting is "Myriadiem".... like, different words in place of whats there, so they don't sound stupid.

But aren't we speculating that 10,000 Days is real but is just in a different form?

Hense the second part of my last post. Maybe the track titles follow the same type of formula. That would be quite clever...

just throwing in some points -

there was that image of maynard in... asia (?) [JAMBI OMG?!] a while ago leaning against that statue, and blair updated toolband that one time saying "coming soon" and linked this image below it. it was included in the following newsletter, but it could still have some relevance...

Jambi is in Indonesia. I don't know where Indonesia is (I'm seirous).

I'd forgotten about that stone thing... sort of resembles one of the fake album art things.

Can you link to the page with the image of nard on it? I have an idea...

yeah but maybe he was in jambi and we thought it was asia. probably not though.

Indonesia is either a part of Asia or right under it. Its inbetween China and Australia, on a bunch of islands.

Its part of asia. I know for a fact it is.

it was up at maynardjameskeenan.com wasn't it? i checked archive.org but it isn't listed.