tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 26 10:37:46 2007
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RE: bible
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: bible
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:36:15 -0600
Quvar:
> >> by the way, i know some people are translating the bible
> >> into klingon. What is the word they chose for bible? Maybe
> >> just paq'a'?
naHQun:
> > As I understand it "bible" means "a collection of books". ("The Holy
> > Bible", would be a collection of holy books)
> > So if <mu'ghom> is "dictionary", could <paqghom> be "bible"?
> > And then just tack on <quv> to show the significance of the book?
DloraH:
>Or you could be more specific/direct and say <Qun paqghom>.
Glen Proechel called his New Testament translation "Good News for the
Warrior Race" - thus, {*De' QaQ} is gospel ("good news").
David Barron called it the *{*paq'a'} The Great Book.
The KBTP uses (used?) *{paq'a' quv}.
Joel Anderson's "Klingon Language Version" of the Bible can be found at
<http://klv.mrklingon.org/>http://klv.mrklingon.org/
http://www.crosswire.org/study/parallelstudy.jsp
(Click on the KLV tab in the "Available Modules" list on the left side.)
He also has a Bible study site online: {mu''a'vo' mu'} "A Klingon Word from
the Word: Thinking about the Scriptures", through the lens of the Klingon
Language Version of the World English Bible" at:
<http://klingonword.blogspot.com/>http://KlingonWord.blogspot.com
To bring this back to Trek, there is actually a Klingon equivalent - the
*Paq'batlh* ("book of honor"). This is a large series of ancient Klingon
scrolls and religious texts that, among other things, passes on the stories
of Kahless. Among them are the "Tomes of Klavek", the eleventh of which
describes how Kahless came back from the afterlife having kept a scar to
show that what he had experienced was real, so that he may save the soul of
his brother. B'Ellana was seen studying a page of the Eleventh Tome of
Klavek on a viewscreen. (VOY "Barge of the Dead") The *paq'batlh* seems to
be the Klingon equivalent of the Bible or Koran. (Cf.
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Paq%27batlh for a picture.)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons