tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 21 08:23:06 1995
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Re: qeylIs ghaH "Iv
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:40:46 -0500
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: [email protected] (Joshua Rosenblum, Supergenius)
I'm not really qualified (or interested) to talk much about this
information, but I do have a few things that puzzled me. I'm also curious
where this information came from. Is this official Paramount canon?
>From: Lt. Kinarra vestai-Suabaiesh
> 1st Political Operations Specialist
> ICB/KDC
> Imperial Klingon Navy
>The first mention of Kahless is in an original episode of STAR TREK where he
>is introduced as qeylIS-lijbe'taH ghaH, Kahless. The Unforgetable. (Kahless.
> He is not forgotten.) He was described as the person who united the
>klingons
No, "lIjbe'taH ghaH" means "He is not forgetting." Sort of like a divine
records-keeper? If this phrase is canon, we have to do some serious
re-thinking.
>codified by John Ford in his book "The Final Reflection" and FASA's "Klingons"
>supplements for their Star Trek role playing game. (Both publications are
>*excellent* resources for klingon culture).
Oh, OK. Ford's work, last I heard, was not considered by Paramount to be
canonical.
>Kahless united the klingon people under one rule and turned their power
>outward into space. He was the living proof that klingons were to rule
>others, that the empire was komerex (that which grows).
Note that Komerex is a word in Ford's Klingonaase, a language which has
nothing to do with tlhIngan Hol aside from its being attributed to the same
race. Wish we knew more about it, though.
>>From this comes the klingon expression qeylISte' qaS (Kahlesste Kaase,
>"te'"-ancient possessive? "Kaase"-archaic noun?) Kahless' Hand!
Weird, transliterating Klingonaase into tlhIngan letters!
~mark