Moon glyphs6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Polar Bear's Christmas Letter as Rendered using the BabelStone Goblin Vertical font in IE8 the double f of lots of fun) alternatively you could use ZWSP, but although ZWSP works OK in plain text editors such as Notepad and BabelPad, it causes layout problems in more sophisticated applications such as Internet Explorer. Note that Polar Bear's letter does not separate words, but I have used ZWNJ as a word separator in the test file in order to inhibit unwanted ligaturing across word boundaries (e.g. The html file that I used is available here, if anyone wants to test it on their system. The fonts may be downloaded for free from my website.Īs discussed previously, Internet Explorer version 8 supports the vertical left-to-right layout that Mongolian, Manchu, Phags-pa and Goblin require, and so I have been able to reproduce quite accurately the layout of the above letter using the vertical version of my font in IE8. ![]() As I do not know how to combine vertical and horizontal glyph layout in a single font, I have found it simplest to create two versions of my font, BabelStone Goblin for horizontal layout, and BabelStone Goblin Vertical for vertical layout. Like the Mongolian, Manchu and Phags-pa scripts, Goblin is normally written in vertical columns running left-to-right across the page, but it can also be written horizontally left-to-right. Tokien's The Father Christmas Letters (1976) Polar Bear's Christmas Letter from J.R.R. Taking a Christmas break from Tangut, this year I have finally found time to create a font for the Goblin Alphabet used by the North Polar Bear in the Father Christmas Letters. It has become a Christmas tradition for me to read to my children Raymond Briggs' Chronicles of Father Christmas and J.R.R. If you have one that we haven’t answered, ask it in the comments.Thursday, 1 January 2009 Moon Runes and Goblin Alphabet We’ve had a lot of questions from people over the years asking everything from ‘Are Celtic symbols and meanings evolving?’ (I’m not really sure what this one means, but we get it a lot) to ‘Which Celtic love knots make good tattoos?’.īelow, I’ll try and tackle as many of these questions as possible. FAQs about Celtic symbols and their meanings Other trios in Celtic symbolism include humankind being made up of mind, body and spirit. With the arrival of Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century, the Celtic trio was extended to include the Holy Trinity: God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The Celts also divided the stages of life into three phases: the past, the present and the future. These included three domains: Earth, sky and sea. Many Celtic designs have three intertwined parts which represent the belief that everything of significance is in three parts. With these symbols, there is a common theme of love, loyalty, strength, unity and religious belief. However, many symbols have been interpreted over the years. Many Irish Celtic symbols were handed down over time and their meanings were never actually recorded in writing. ![]() Druids were among the high-ranking professional, religious and law-keeping members of Celtic culture.Ĭonsequently, Druid symbols have a close association and overlap with many ancient Celtic symbols and meanings. One of the groups among the ancient Celts were the Druids. These ancient people lived in small tribal communities and, despite being widely scattered, they spoke similar Celtic languages and had many common cultural symbols. The Celts were an indigenous race that lived in groups across Northern Europe from pre-500BC to the Medieval Period.
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