Prefixes and suffixes

So at the end, denotes to oneself, or the state of once’s self (Wesmo means hope. Wesmoso means I hope)

Se at the end, denotes to someone else or the state of them (Wesmose means You hope)

clo denotes ownership to oneself (mina means men. Clomina means my men)

Est denoting ownership to one’s own group (umee means friends, estumee means our friends)

Be denotes ownership or state to others. Sometimes replaces no to indicate state of being of others (Lone means transport. Belone means your transport) When individual is named, there is no suffix. (Azul’s Vestment becomes Deli Vincta)

No State of being

Tro denotes one’s own presence (Minco means princess. Trominco means princess and I)

O Female version. Inserted at the end of a word. (Minc means prince. Minco Means Princess. Trominc would mean prince and I)

Lo always

lu Never

U A change of meaning, such as the opposite of the original implication. (Example: Lam means welcome. Lum means unwelcome.)

A Plural form

X denotes to harshness or cruelty

N denotes to softness and gentleness.

To Verb form, interchangeable with Ta

Ta Verb form, interchangeable with To

Co Verb form

S inserted can indicate past tense.

P inserted can indicate future tense

Numbers:

The calendar of the Acana is based on the Moon Anker’s cycle. Instead of weeks or days of the week, like Monday or Tuesday, each day throughout the lunar cycle is allotted a special spelling based on numbers 1-31. Example: number Ju, which is the number one, is Jun when referring to the first day of the Moon cycle.

The technique is borrowed over when a certain number of days is mentioned, but only for 1 through 31. I have one cat would be I have ju cat. There is one day. There is Jun day. 

Jun can mean either “one day” or “the first day of the month.” Numbers from 32 and up do not apply and are instead spoken in the origin spelling followed by the Masiann word for number, Ninma. Thirty-two days would be Melch-ki Ninma while thirty-one days would be Melch-jun.

Confused yet?

1: Ju (Jun Day 1 of Anker’s cycle)

2: ki (Kin Day 2 of Anker’s cycle)

3: mel (Men)

4: Ak (An)

5: Ni (Nin)

6: Hep (Hen)

7: quil (Quin)

8: Sen (Se—the only day in which n is subtracted, not added)

9: Lip (Lin)

10: Cha (Chan) 

20: kich (kich-mel 25. Lunor cycle—Kin 20. Kich-nin 25)

30: melch (Melchn 30 days. Melch-jun 31 is the last day of the moon cycle. Melch-ki Ninma 32 days)

40: Akch (Akch-hep 46.)

50: nich

60: hech

70: quich

80: sech

90: lich

100: chach (chach-hech-quil 167)

200: Kichach (kichach-hech-quil 267)

300: melchach

Masiann glossary pulled from “A Song of Hope”

Alkone: Wood

Ven: chief

Lam:  Welcome

Lum: unwelcome

Tas: Stay a long time

Tus: Stay a short time

Tos: Stay

Omi: The like or the desire of an object, person, or place.

Umi: The dislike or the distain for an object, person, or place

Belono: You are always

Lono: always

Beluno: You are never

Luno: never

Lamino: Welcome woman

Lumino: Unwelcome woman

Lami: welcome

Lamun: Welcome man

Lumun: Unwelcome man

Tasomino: Stay as long as you desire, woman

Tasomin: Stay as long as you desire, Man

Min: Man

Mina: Men

Mino: Woman

Minao: Women

Clomina: Possessive form of the word men.

Xalo: A harsh wetland such as Vipen’s Swamp

Nato: Verb Lead

Napto: Will lead

Chonta: Archers

Choto: Verb loose (as in loose an arrow from a bow)

Concota: archers loose (Combination of Archers and Loose. Easier to say than Chonta Choto.)

Deli: Azul

Vincta: Vestment

Del: yes (Derived from the name Azul)

Some: Appropriate, fine, acceptable.

Delsome: Yes, that would be fine.

Destonia: sun blast

Drashgo: Dragon

Belonse: Transport in eight days, possessive. (Example; my transport would be in eight days) (This word does not need to follow the “P” rule because the number eight indicates future tense. An “S” in Besonse changes it to eight days ago.)

Lon: Transport

Se: Eight days.

Ninma: Days, when number is not specified or any number after 31. (Numbers are often allotted a day of the Moon [Anker] Cycle)

Gono: thank you

Kepteeper: Keeper (This word has been changed and influenced throughout the ages by the language of the outside world)

Rass: Key

Lor: Wellness. Healthy.

Lorto: Verb form of wellness. The action of being healthy. (Lorpto for future tense)

Estumee: Our friends.

Umee: Friends.

Cast: A wound. An injury.

Casto: The Action of being wounded or damaged

Losomo: Very or always good!

Somo: Good

Manskiso: sit

Mema: rebuild (When word does not follow rule, it is known as a rebel. Or a Chapa)

Meshi: Fire

Canpa: Loud flare, blaze, or explosion.

Nira: tender sleep

Portiloa: Portal

Galaso: I am hidden (state of being)

Gala: Hidden.

Galato: Verb, hiding

Rashaka: horizon

Shmalk: fly

Shonta: “drop” or “lower”

Stafona: “it wants you to get on its back”

Stafo: means back

Fona: climb

Stophin: will throw (P—future tense)

Stohin: throw

Telmen: General

Pato: To meet (verb)

Papo: will meet

Pasto: Met, past tense

Teno: The state of being interested.

BeTeno: the state of being interesting

Ten: Interest as a noun.

Falu: flying

Ticate: fox.

Rostona: To climb

Trominco: Princess and I

Trominc: Prince and I

Minco: Princess

Minc: Prince

Colina: Planning a journey.

Veno: Hello

Wesmoso: I hope

Wesmose: You hope

Prastone: enjoy, enjoyment

Protoso: I will search (Verb)

Roto: check (Verb)

Yesways: swear, promise, guarantee

Masiann sentence as used in a Song of Hope:

Belono lamino ven tasomino: you are always welcome here and are free to stay as long as you like

Belono; Be= you are, lo=always, No=state of being. (You are always, as opposed to beluno, you are never)

Lamino; Lam= Welcome or wanted, mino=woman.

Ven= chief. (Often inserted in the middle of a sentence to add emphasis. As if one’s idea is chief)

Tasomino= Tas-stay a long time, omi= like or desire of someone. no= state of being.  

Clomina xalo napto: My men will accompany you through the wetlands.

Clomina; clo=my, mina=men

Xalo; x= denotes to harsh conditions. Alo=wetland or swamp. 

Napto;  will lead (P indicates future tense)

Drashgo belonse: She would arrange our dragon transport in eight days.

be= denotes ownership to others.

Lon= transport.

Se= eight days, Another form of sen

Falano deshee: If you ever need anything, do not be afraid to ask.

Falana; Fala= need, no= the state of being,

Deshee; ask

Lorto estumee casto: Leo asking if James/Anara survived.

Lorto; Lor=wellness or wholeness or healthy, to = indicating verb form.

Estumee; Est=denoting ownership to one’s own group, umee=friends

Casto; Cast=a wound, To= indicating verb form.

Portiloa galaso: Leo’s interpretation of Iris’s answer, “So it (the fox) can take you to the portal is not an exact translation. A more accurate phrase would be, “The hidden portal, I am.” To further clarify, the “I am” is stuck on the end to indicate Iris seeing herself and her people as part of their beloved portal. Leo realizes this and translates so Cierra could understand.

Galaso; Gala= hidden, So=state of being or denoting to oneself.

Protoso yesways: “she will check” Leo translated, but Iris said this directly indicating herself.

Protoso; P=indicates future tense. Roto=search out, so=denotes to oneself

 Yesways; guarantee.

Within the rustic building, that we at Charis Bible College affectionately called, “the barn,” I was sitting in class one morning during my first year of school.  Arthur Meintjes was teaching on the stage beneath arching beams. On either side of the stone fireplace, sunlight spilled through a row of tall windows overlooking Pikes Peak, which rose behind a dress of pine and milky-blue mist. Breathless wonder swept through my core as I glimpsed the shimmering white caps of the looming beauty. It dared any adventurer to scale its fourteen-thousand-foot summit. The Mountain is a world of its own, that demands exploration.

Nature has a way of bringing us closer to our own foundations. It births a sense of inspiration, like the stars of a night sky, too far away to truly be comprehended – little hints of a much bigger picture. Is there life out there? How much further does the universe reach compared to what we can observe? Does it have an end? What marvels are hidden within the depts of space, that I’ll never know about? It is these intangible mysteries that we itch to understand. I think that’s where our love for fantasy and science fiction come from. It’s that urge to look into new worlds. In my opinion, if you don’t share this same curiosity, are you really human?

I don’t believe the supernatural is just fantasy. The stories I write are products of not just my imagination, but of my experience. 

Back inside Charis’ “barn,” I sat on the edge of the right hand, middle row, when all of a sudden, something out of the ordinary happened. The only way I know how to explain, is that bubbles of joy popped up into my heart from deep down. They carried with them an exciting message. “Are you ready for me to do something amazing for you?” It was more like an idea. A voice so quiet, my own thoughts were louder, yet it screamed with such a force I could feel the sound waves.

Anything you want, I’m in, I thought back. I mean, how would you answer God if he basically told you that you’re about to experience power completely out of this world? My heart wouldn’t stop racing. I found myself beaming like a bride on her wedding day. It was similar to the sensations of intoxication, but without all the side effects! There was this peace. It drowned out any doubt that what God just told me was impossible. I didn’t know exactly what he was promising, but I knew it was about to change my life forever.

About a month before that incredible day in the Son-light, I’d been at a small group in Colorado Springs where a bunch of us students were prophesying over each other. I remember my sister gripping my shoulders and gazing straight into my eyes. “You’ve had a desire to draw, like I used to. Don’t you?” she asked. Back in high school, my sister was an incredible artist, and I’d always envied her stable hands and the patience it took her to learn how to shade and jot those tiny details— the ones that made her drawings look like they could walk right off the page.

I’d shelved this desire a long time and hadn’t breathed a word of it to anyone. Writing had always come easy. But drawing . . . it was a butterfly sitting on a flower, drinking nectar. One wrong move, the shift of a finger, one breath, and the butterfly would startle—forever gone as it flutters away, hopeless to be caught.

My sister told me that night at that small group, that I could have that same talent. I just needed to put my pencil to the page.

Fast-forward a month later, after being promised the impossible inside “the barn,” I stuck my pencil against a random page in my purchased collage textbook and drew a flawless picture of bugs bunny. You have to understand that I couldn’t draw a straight line before this. Even an object as simple as a cartoon rabbit was out of my reach.

That was, until that day. In a moment, the blink of an eye, without practice . . . I could draw.

After school, I rushed to Walmart and carefully rummaged through a selection of sketch pads. I picked one called, “sketch diary” held together by spiral rings. On the front cover, it had a drawing of a man playing a saxophone. Through a period of a few weeks, I mastered what other artists told me took them years to learn. I used techniques I didn’t know existed. I was drawing life-like pictures of humans and animals –horses, elephants, leopards. 

This was not my ability. If I would take credit for these drawings, I’d be lying. I encountered the supernatural that day, and the effect has carried on even to this moment, as I write this article.

How can I reconcile this experience when people tell me that what we see is all that there is?