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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn
@mythologist.bsky.social
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Archaeologist : Linguist : Mythologist : Austronesianist : Indo-Europeanist : Uto-Aztecanist : Dachshundist : Kelpien : Speculative Fiction SF/F Author : THE LAST INTERGLACIAL (alt-past epic fantasy, 2026) : AUSTRONESIA (alt-future eutopian thriller, 2026)
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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hello, Tovaangar! I'm a UCLA-trained, Los Angeles-based comparative archeologist, linguist, and mythologist who spends most of his research time digging into the Austronesian, Indo-European, and Uto-Aztecan language families, with a special interest in the intersection of the sacred and the profane.
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Seattle in 2025 highlights: Table talks with @gwillow.me, Diana Ma, Michael Michel, and @jeremyteg.bsky.social. My fanboy moment with @fondalee.bsky.social. Hanging out at Ludi’s, Freya, The Crumpet Store, Vivienne’s and Zema.
August 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
mythologist.bsky.social
Congratulations to the author of my all-time favorite novella series (The Singing Hills Cycle), @nghivo.bsky.social, on her latest award. The Hugo for Best Short Story goes to “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”!
August 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Dylan and I are eating our way through seattlein2025.org. Highlights so far: Ludi’s for a Filipino breakfast; The Crumpet Store for an English breakfast; The Original Deli for bulgogi; Zema for an Ethiopian/Eritrean dinner. Yum!
Seattle in 2025
Welcome to Seattle Worldcon 2025! Building Yesterday's Future—For Everyone. August 13–17, 2025.
seattlein2025.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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silviamg.bsky.social Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · Jul 7
THE BEWITCHING is out next week. I'll be visiting several cities, including Boston and Austin. Check my website for event details.
silviamg.bsky.social Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · Jun 30
It's that time to remind you THE BEWITCHING is out July 15 and I'll be in several cities to promote this, including NY and LA.
Check my website for info:
silviamoreno-garcia.com/events/
July 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt.
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott has a purplish/pink background tone (but tasteful!). In the background rise three mysterious towers and a gateway. The path to the gateway is lined by massive statues of warriors with the bodies of humans and the heads of beasts. Two tiny figures stand in a splash of sunlight as they contemplate entering the compound with the towers.
June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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My publisher wants me to share this link with you, so here it is: read.macmillan.com/lp/enola-hol...
Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin 9781250407580 - Macmillan
Enola Holmes—international bestselling and Netflix streaming sensation—returns when rescuing a young woman pits her against her brother Sherlock&#8...
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May 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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nghivo.bsky.social
Anyone in San Diego wanna come hear me read and talk about my new novella Don't Sleep with the Dead? I'm at the legendary Mysterious Galaxy tonight at 7!!!

www.mystgalaxy.com/41525Vo
www.mystgalaxy.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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nghivo.bsky.social
On in 30 with Dahlia de la Vega at Skylight Books!

(Oh my gosh, this place is gorgeous...)

www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...
www.skylightbooks.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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It’s launch day for THE MIDNIGHT KING!!! Super excited to finally see this book out in the wild.

If you like dark, grizzly, serial killer thrillers, then check it out now 😎

www.waterstones.com/book/the-mid...
The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani | Waterstones
Buy The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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April 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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lawrence-shaw.bsky.social
An exciting day to share the incredible results of our excavations at Farley Moor standing stone last October www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
March 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Oh, Canadian and US friends, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD is cheap at all good ebook retailiers. Why not read about people coming together to stand up to a really unpleasant society? We love to see it.
The cover of Gods of the Wyrdwood. white with a weird tree like face on it.
March 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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silviamg.bsky.social
Took the train early this morning to Seattle for Emerald City Comicon, where I'll be at a couple of panels and signing books at the Del Rey both. Tired and melancholic and anxious. Like I've said before, what a time to be both Canadian and Mexican.
March 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
Preorders for the Black Library celebration kick off next Saturday. Apparently if you buy a BL book there's a freebie collection with stories from me and 3 other sterling authors. My story, Web of Ruin, may contain spiders... www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
Sunday Preview – Get ready for the Black Library Celebration - Warhammer Community
Piles of books, and new miniatures for The Horus Heresy.
www.warhammer-community.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This writer has been facing awful challenges, including health issues. They could use a donation, if you have a few dollars to spare.
lilymeade.bsky.social Lily Meade @lilymeade.bsky.social · Feb 10
I’ve launched a new fundraiser for ongoing support now that the purpose of our original fundraiser to “prepare” to be homeless is technically complete. This months update includes health concerns and continuing costs of poverty. gofund.me/c0cc5aa2 ♥️ Please share.
Donate to Ongoing Support for Homeless Family, organized by Mariah Lily Meade
Last April, I made a fundraiser called “Preparing to Become Homeless Again.” Aft… Mariah Lily Meade needs your support for Ongoing Support for Homeless Family
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February 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Uto-Aztecan reconstrution of the day (i.e. I just made it today):

Proto-Corachol-Nahua *pɨ̒tse "to kiss"
Pre-Nahua: *pɨ̒tse-wa

Cognates:
Nahuatl pitsoa
Sta. Teresa Náayeri: pɨ̒itse'e

Probably derived from PUA *putsa "to blow"

(Maybe I should have saved this for Valentine's day...)
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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silviamg.bsky.social
Enter a giveaway for the Spanish language translation of my novella Prime Meridian aka Meridiano Cero. Open worldwide.

Pueden ganar una copia de mi novela corta Meridiano Cero, recientemente traducida al español por Estela Peña Molatore y publicada por Minotauro.
gleam.io/wkvZb/meridi...
MERIDIANO CERO giveaway
Win a copy of MERIDIANO CERO Shipped anywhere in the world ​*** Signed copy of the Spanish translation of the novella Prime Meridian/Meridiano Cero. Copia autografiada de la novela corta Meridiano Cer...
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February 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
I am having so much fun writing this new book. My characters, less so.
January 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
This is the absolutely magnificent map that Katrin produced based on my Echoes of the Fall series. It's an incredible piece of work.
katrindirim.bsky.social Katrin Dirim @katrindirim.bsky.social · Jan 24
A map for Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Echoes of the Fall" trilogy from a while back
January 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name of its owner ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in Coppergate, York, in 1982. Iron and copper alloy, dated AD 770-775 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
The Anglian York Helmet is composed of four main elements; a composite cap (brown in colour), two hinged cheek-pieces (also brown in colour) and a curtain of ring mail as a neckguard. The brass-coloured nose guard is covered with intricate interlaced animals. The 'eyebrows' have animal-head terminals, and an inscribed copper alloy band that runs over and across the crest of the helmet. The interlacing animals on the nose guard have open lips, comma-shaped eyes and spiral hips. Between the ‘eyebrows' and facing downward, is a larger animal head with a rounded snout and comma-shaped eyes, like those on the nose guard. This animal has ears on either side of its head that merge with the inscribed copper alloy band. An inscription on the band reads: 'IN. NOMINE. DNI. NOSTRI. IHV. SCS. SPS. D. ET. OMNIBUS. DECEMUS. AMEN. OSHERE. XPI.' This abbreviated Latin inscription may be translated as 'In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God and with all we pray. Amen. Oshere. Christ.'
January 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!

Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury Minoan ceramics were made in palace workshops. From Phaistos, Crete.

📷 me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a museum display with luxury Minoan ceramic cups known as Kamares Ware, from Phaistos, Crete. Produced by palace workshops c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs. Many with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
December 28, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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A Welsh publisher has released a new translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel The Hobbit in Welsh wp.me/p8Mk4U-SfE
Yr Hobyd: A perfect Christmas stocking filler
A Welsh publisher has released a new translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel The Hobbit in Welsh. One of the most popular and most-translated books of the twentieth century and the prelu...
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December 14, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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‘The poetic use of ritual language creates a world of metaphor and imagination.’

The origin narratives in our latest title come from two long-established domains on the island of Rote in eastern Indonesia.

Get your copy and learn more: doi.org/10.22459/RVR...
ANU Press New Release Cover image of Ritual Voices of Revelation The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia
November 26, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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anupress.bsky.social
Our newest title is a grammatical description of the Warlmanpa language, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia presently spoken in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory and surrounding country

Purchase a copy or download for free doi.org/10.22459/GW.2024

#morphology
ANU Press New Release Cover image of 'A Grammar of Warlmanpa'
November 27, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Briton Chieftain Calgacus, Against the Venture Capitalists and Techbros, 83/84 AD
Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, iam mare scrutantur: si locuples hostis est, avari, si pauper, ambitiosi, quos non Oriens, non Occidens satiaverit: soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari adfectu concupiscunt. auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. (Tacitus, Agricola 30) Robbers of the world, now that earth fails their all-devastating hands, they probe even the sea: if their enemy have wealth, they have greed; if he be poor, they are ambitious; East nor West has glutted them; alone of mankind they covet with the same passion want as much as wealth. To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace. (trans. Hutton & Peterson, revised by Ogilvie, Warmington & Winterbottom, Loeb)
November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Kuchean Tocharian (Tocharian B) word of the day:
Or ("wood").

From PIE *doru- ("wood". cf. Sanskrit dāru, Hittite tāru- etc.); the disappearing *d is sometimes argued to be a sign of a glottalic element in the "plain voiced" sounds of PIE, i.e, a preglottalized sound turning into a glottal stop.
November 27, 2024 at 9:39 PM